DCV 472 – Edward Top: Four

General  Edward Top was born in Ommen, the Netherlands, in 1972. Top has lived and worked in London, Bangkok, and Rotterdam. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Education Top studied composition and violin at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in The Netherlands.

DCV 452 Edward Top Most Beautiful Bird of Paradise Tokyo Sinfonietta and Yasuaki Itakura

DCV 345 Edward Top Symphony Golden Dragon Dutch Ballet Orchestra and Fabrice Bollon

DCV 329 Edward Top A Storm is Blowing from Utopia DoelenEnsemble

DCV 462 Edward Top Clairvoyant Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Alexander Weimann

Commissioned by the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra and conductor Chih-Sheng Chen, with financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts. The Grey Tree will receive its premiere on composer’s son’s birthday, April 7, as part of the 2024 Taipei Traditional Arts Festival 台北傳統藝術季, at Zhongshan Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

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

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

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.