composer
Joey Roukens (b. 1982) is an Amsterdam-based composer of contemporary classical music. He studied classical composition at Codarts University of the Arts and psychology at Leiden University. Since graduating in ...
related works
Zwei Heine Lieder : for alto or mezzo-soprano and piano / Gustav Mahler; realised by Joey Roukens
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
Akoetest : voor symfonieorkest, opus 45, -1973- / Jan Masséus
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp perc hp pf str
Prélude de ballet : per orchestra, arr. per orch. piccola, (orch. d'amatori), 1963 / Harold C. King
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1010 0000 pf str
Tema con variazioni : per orchestra, op. 666, 1981 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3323 2231 timp 2perc hp str
composition
Distorted Fantasia (after J.P. Sweelinck) : for orchestra / Joey Roukens
Description:
I have a great affinity with his music [of Sweelinck], particularly the keyboard works, which I regularly play myself on the piano. One of the Fantasias in Dorian mode (SWwV 259) forms the basis of this work. Sweelinck is always present, but 'filtered through 21st-century glasses', as in a (contemporary) dream that distorts the music in a surreal way. The work draws Sweelinck's idiom into our time with alienating harmonies, distorted rhythms and dramatic contrasts.