Compositions

DELULU

DELULU tells the story of Josh, a socially disconnected yet intelligent and passionate young man with a fascination for Astronomy. Everything changes when he is given early access to BetterLand, a revolutionary AI-driven computer game. He is slowly drawn in, leaving reality and his girlfriend Stella behind. Within this new world, he constructs a remarkable universe that gradually claims to be real.

Our Opical (opera + musical) explores the danger of a young generation getting lost in virtual worlds, especially as the development of AI begins to offer emotional shortcuts to the complexity of real human relationships. A crowd-funded try-out version was first performed at the Academie voor Theater en Dans.

Toonzetters

20 young composers working in the Netherlands create new pieces for pianos and percussion

Toonzetters premiered at Oranjewoud Festival in 2022 before going on tour, featuring further performances at major concert halls and festivals including TivoliVredenburg, Wonderfeel, Grachtenfestival, Festival Dag in de Branding, November Music, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. The Toonzetters album was released by 7 Mountain Records in 2023 to positive reviews from major Dutch news outlets such as NRC, De Volkskrant, Trouw, Het Parool, and Luister. Toonzetters additionally won the Nieuw Geneco Fair Practice Award in 2022.

Visit the Toonzetters website.

Read an interview about Toonzetters in Het Parool here.

Ruminations (2020)

The Score Collective under Bas van Yperen

A slow odyssey through different worlds of sound and color, culminating in a melancholic yet otherworldly chorale

Lamentatie voor tijden die eens waren (2019)

Vl I – Natálie Kulina

Vl II – Ana Brandão

Vla – Lilian Haug

Vc – Antoni Cholewiński

Fuga in g klein (2018)

Organ – Jaap Zwart

Jaap Zwart playing the mighty 19th-century organ of St Nicholas’ Basilica in Amsterdam, built by the renowned Wilhelm Sauer

Oceanisch Verlangen (2017)

^{The sound of the music was versatile, with lyrical melodies for both the voices and the clarinet, dramatic power and coherent content. Here, talent for music drama revealed itself in an original setting by director Adrian Linz}
Franz Straatman, Place de l’Opera

Mini-Opera written and produced for the Opera Forward Festival of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet in 2017

Director – Adrian Linz | Libretto – Amro Kasr | Scenography – Han Buhrs Video – Jordi Wolswijk, Douwe Bulten | Dramaturgy – Iris Spanbroek Production – Paula Braas, Shaked Franke, Savan Huisman

Conductor – Damiano Pascarelli | Cast – Nienke Nasserian, Maurice Rommers, Fabian Homburg | Musicians – Niki de Vlaming, Helga Korbar, Dagmar Korbar, Sara Novoselić, Kasper Stern, Tonio Comesaña Pintos, Éadaoin Copeland, Sergio Sande Casal

Masquerade (2016)

^{Heij has composed a surprisingly lyrical piece … the first and third sections move at a brisk pace; the middle section is quiet and atmospheric. It emerges as a remarkably consistent effort}
Ben Taffijn, Nieuwe Noten

Nieuw Ensemble