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Fortune's Fool was commissioned by Harmen Vanhoorne. With this piece he won several prices among wich the British Open Solo Championship (UK) and the Ern Keller Memorial Trophee (AUS). Fortune's Fool will be recorded and published on CD in 2012. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, was the inspiration for Stan Nieuwenhuis's Fortune's Fool. The piece is divided in two parts, the first symbolizing Romeo's difficult quest for an impossible relationship and the second, his emotions. The piece begins with a rather slow introduction representing for Romeo's feelings of hopelessly in love, expressed by a broad melody with wide intervals. The second part, symbolising Romeo's turbulent emotions, is fast and powerful with an easily-recognised basic motive. The dark atmosphere of the latter half of the story is in evidence hereand Romeo, on an emotional rollercoaster, is 'Fortune's Fool' himself. The finale of the work features a cadenza, very challenging from a technical point of view, which represents, for the last time Romeo's sadness.
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REwrite RElapse is a 16' piece for brassband. The world we live in today in 2018 is vastly complex. Despite all progress we keep on falling into the trap of polarisation and conflict. After WWII everyone agreed: this could never happen again. The roots of this conviction seem frailer every day. Too often we hear the same words and expressions we heard in the run up this WWII. Social media divide and polarize at least as much as they connect people. It must be said though that every one of these conflicts also initiates a more positive counter movement. Evil is persistent and sometimes it seems as if negative forces are taking over, but so far sincere love and respect are invincible. The only question is: how long will they last and how far will negativity take over this time?
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Fantasque was commissioned by French cornet player Alexis Demailly for a CD project full of music for cornet with string accompaniment. Fantasque is a work in four movements that was inspired by the unpredictability of the sea. Each movement symbolizes one of the different moods the sea can have. The first and fourth movement are rough and raw. The second movement symbolizes a softly windy shore. The third movement is the calm phase before the storm, the sky is cloudy and dark but the storm has not arrived yet.
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The Arrival is a piece written for a brass quartet. It is played the first time in Manchester at the RNCM Festival of Brass 2013. I wrote this piece for my brass quartet 'Exit_Brass!' where I play cornet and for which I am composer in residence. The Arrival is a piece in three consecutive parts.The first part opens powerfully, is full of tension and dissonances. Then follows a rather virtuose part in which the two cornets compete against the euphonium and the tenor horn. This competition keeps going in the second part. It starts chaotically but is then followed by a choral. This part is rather sad and downhearted. It ends with the repetition of the beginning of the choral, that dies out in the end. The third part is very rhythmical and fuga-like. It has a pounding pulse with the main theme in all the different instruments on top. In the lyrical middle part, a long stretched melody for the euphonium occurs. The finale is again very rhythmical. It grows quickly into a climax. The piece ends with the main theme of the third part played in unisono resembling the beginning of the third part.
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Commissioned by the Gelders Fanfare Orkest and their conductor Erik van de Kolk in 2016. False Front will be part of the WMC programme of the GFO. False Front is a piece about the duality in the globalized world. The act of 'othering' of the west to keep their own standards high is the main inspiration for this piece.
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