composer
Rick van Veldhuizen (*1994, Tilburg), while raised on a wide variety of music, only discovered classical music at the age of 11, and started composing almost simultaneously.
Education: Starting in 2008, ...
related works
mais le corps taché d'ombres : for harp and string orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp en strijkorkest
Instruments:
hp-solo str
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-11 players); Wood Wind Ensemble and keyboard instrument
Instruments:
vl/fl vla/cl vc/fg g
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-11 players)
Instruments:
3 woodwind instruments g perc
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3455 2sax 4555 12perc 3pf 2hp str(16.16.12.10.16.)
composition
weltjugend U6 [1984] : for reed quintet and electronics / Rick van Veldhuizen
Description:
In Berlin, in 1984, while the city was divided, some underground lines serving the West-Berlin underground passed underneath the eastern part of the city, passing multiple dimly-lit stations without stopping. One of those stations was Stadion der Weltjugend (now: Schwartzkopffstraße) on the current line U6, which was a ghost station for all of the Cold War, which didn’t prevent the GDR authorities to rename it not once, but twice. weltjugend U6 [1984] paints the dilapidated station, where only aural clues – of passing trains, of rock music on broken radios, of dripping water, remain at this station. In the middle of the piece, the impression of the station breaks down into a desperate, violent cry of help – the youth of the world trying to undo the mistakes of generations upon generations of their ancestors.
Rick van Veldhuizen