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The Dutch composer Douwe Eisenga studied composition with Julius Ament and Wim Diriwachter at the Groningen Conservatory in the Netherlands. He has written pieces for, among others, the Xenakis Ensemble, Super Librum. Python Soxophone Quartet and for pianist’s Gerard Bouwhuis, Jeoren van Veen and Marcel Worms.

In 2001 Marcel Worms recorded Eisenga’s Growing Worm for his CD More new blues for piano. In the same year, Eisenga’s chamber-opera Kabaal (Row) received enthusiastic reviews in the Dutch press. Eisenga continued with Requiem 1953, a large-scale composition for choir and orchestra, performed in 2003 for the commemoration of the flood that struck The Netherlands in 1953. Later on that year, the première of the Piano Concerto took place in Yokohama, Japan, performed by Gerard Bouwhuis and the Xenakis Ensemble. Spring 2004 witnessed the Dutch première of the complete piece at the Centre for New Music in Zeeland (NL).
In 2006 the CD ‘Rose Road - City Lines’ was released. The CD got very positive reviews in the Dutch press. In 2007 Kabaal was performed about 20 times in a new extended version. In 2008 Eisenga wrote music for Cloud Atlas, a project based on the novel from David Mitchell, performed by members of Nieuw Amsterdam Peil.
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  • FallingUpwards7

    Нравится.

    November 2011

  • F0000000L

    & will be in ...

    July 2011

  • F0000000L

    how knows ? music & my ........(what) ? I`m .....in vertigo ...........

    July 2011

  • PuzzledCostya

    Yeah, man!

    June 2011

  • musinum

    Thanks for stopping by! I've listenened with enjoyment to some of your pieces, including piano concertos. My own first performed work (at age 9) was a piano concerto, as it happens, so I retain a particular fondness...

    May 2011

  • fansenga

    Eisenga's music really grows on you. I've tried it out on a number of our friends here in England and they've been quietly impressed on first hearing, especially City Lines. And as for Wiek - I'm no dance fan but I'd love to see this performed! The music is just enthralling all the way through. The soon Eisenga writes (and records) more, the happier I shalll be!

    February 2010

  • RenieHarbers

    Ik krijg hier maar geen genoeg van. hopelijk nog een keer in het echt aanschouwen!

    December 2009

  • mozzmozz

    ;)

    November 2009
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The Flood, Requiem in Romania.

2 May 2012 | from www.douweeisenga.nl/Douwe_Eisenga/Blog/Blog.html

On May 11 Requiem 1953 will be performed by the Moldova State Philharmonic in Iasi (Romania) under the new title The Flood, Requiem. The orchestra and choir are conducted by Marcel Verhoeff. The large-scale piece, written in 2002, had its first …

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