DCV 325 – Luc Van Hove: Aria for Cello Solo

Luc Van Hove was born in Antwerp, Belgium on the third of february 1957. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in the classes of Willem Kersters (Composition), of August Verbesselt (Musical Analysis), and of Lode Backx (Piano), amongst other classes. He followed international courses of Conducting (Mozarteum Salsburg), and of Composition and Choreography (University of […]

Casco Phil has long performed on concert stages at home and abroad. But in 2024, for the first time they will take their musicians on a long-term concert trip across national borders. They will tour the Baltic states and proudly fly the Belgian tricolour in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Musically, anyway.

Casco Phil has long performed on concert stages at home and abroad. But in 2024, for the first time they will take their musicians on a long-term concert trip across national borders. They will tour the Baltic states and proudly fly the Belgian tricolour in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Musically, anyway.

Casco Phil has long performed on concert stages at home and abroad. But in 2024, for the first time they will take their musicians on a long-term concert trip across national borders. They will tour the Baltic states and proudly fly the Belgian tricolour in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Musically, anyway.

Casco Phil has long performed on concert stages at home and abroad. But in 2024, for the first time they will take their musicians on a long-term concert trip across national borders. They will tour the Baltic states and proudly fly the Belgian tricolour in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Musically, anyway.

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.