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
Calles y suenos : para orquesta de cámara, 1986 / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2131 1110 3perc 2pf g(ampl.) hp str(3.2.3.1.)
Madness and the moonwoman : for orchestra, 1992 / Vanessa Lann
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2333 4221 perc hp str(14.12.10.8.6.)
Sonorités : pour orchestre, 1963 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra
Scoring:
2110 2sax 1020 perc pf str(vl vc cb)
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.