composer
Joey Roukens was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands, in 1982.
Education: Roukens studied composition at the Rotterdam Conservatory and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano privately with Ton Hartsuiker.
Compositions: ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Instruments:
vl
5 Orchesterstücke : für Orchester / Gerard Drieman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
4fl 2hb eh 4cl 4h 4tpt 3tbn perc hp cel str
Affiche pour la reouverture du magasin : orchestre / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3333 4331 timp 5perc hp str
Quasi niente : voor orkest, 1969-1970 / Jacques Reuland
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3222 3330 timp perc str
composition
Running from silence : for orchestra, 2005 / Joey Roukens
Description:
Program note (English): (Première: April 28, 2006 - Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, Brabants Orchestra, Arie van Beek, conducting) - Running from silence describes the development of silence by means of a quiet sounding landscape to a violent and infuriating burst of energy. The emptiness and (almost) silence with which the piece opens is rapidly filled up with sounds which lead to a quiet, and ethereal music, transporting the listener along an imaginary landscape. Suddenly a regular pulse of sixteenth notes leads to an escape from this landscape at a given moment becomes more and more distant from the tranquillity with which the piece began...-- JOEY ROUKENS