composer
Piet-Jan van Rossum (25/01/66) studied composition with Louis Andriessen, Jan Boerman and Dick Raaymakers as well as the organ with Rienk Jiskoot.
Van Rossum above all directs his attention to composing ...
related works
à Hanso-bo, un corbeau apparaît et regarde : for ensemble / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl fl-a ob 3cl fg cfg 2h tpt trb-b tb perc hp str
Benvenuta : Suite for violin and piano / Frédéric Devreese
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Sonata : per violino e pianoforte / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Sonate : voor 2 violen en piano / Wolfgang Wijdeveld
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
2vl pf
composition
arnica cedar lake : for violin and piano / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Description:
"arnica cedar lake" is the place where no man comes, an imaginary lake deep in the forests of which could be said 'God's spirit moved upon the face of the waters'. Violinist Cynthia Miller - Freivogel asked me to write a piece in memory of her teacher Camilla Wicks, one of the first strong female violinists who lived her last years in such an American forest, self-supporting.
This image of the pioneer, in several ways, a strong character living close to the essence of our planet made me dream up the arnica cedar lake, where God still moves upon the face of the water, far from this species that he created; He loves them (still one of the bigger mysteries to me), but surely He dislikes their ugly sides and must have His moments of self-chosen loneliness to be, for a moment, inside his eartly creation of time and oxygen, of animals and trees, of spirit and limitation: this beautiful system, before He returns to his earth-surrounding dimension where time and space are flexible entities, where future and history are representations of the now.
The music of 'arnica cedar lake' stays away from what we know as virtuosity: the circus-act where a musician can show fastness and bravura. Nothing wrong with that, it's just that I have always been more of a quiet walker then a sportsman and that I try to catch a world close to 'spiritual virtuosity': a blind man's vision of a world to come, because: what do we know? Very little. What can we dream off? Everything.
Piet-Jan van Rossum, January 31st, 2022