DCV 336 – Top: The Stillpoint

DCV 461 Edward Top Confluence Vancouver Erhu Quartet

Chamber works by Joey Roukens and Edward Top are on the program of the DoelenEnsemble at the Dag van de Componist (Dutch Day of the Composer).

DCV 558 Edward Top The Grey Tree Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra and Chih-Sheng Chen  

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.

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.

"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