Patrick van Deurzen

Patrick van Deurzen (Eindhoven, 27 January 1964) is a Dutch composer.

Biography

Patrick Deurzen studied guitar with Dick Hoogeveen and Music Theory with Peter-Jan Wagemans and Jan Kleinbussink at the Rotterdam Conservatory. As a composer he is self-taught but attended classes of instrumentation Klaas de Vries with whom he has had regular work meetings. He also received some composition lessons from Wagemans. He worked as a guitarist, conductor, singer and wrote several articles on 20th-century music. He also worked on several documentaries for the NPS, which include Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron and Alban Berg s violin concerto. Currently he is active as a composer and teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and Codarts Rotterdam.

The idea that Pavlovian association is a feature that makes man unique is the starting point of Van Deurzens composing. Deurzen also often adds text that the musicians should recite to add a different level of meaning to the composition, as in his quintet Choral, Prelude & Fugue (2005) where each part contains texts of Don Quixote. In 2002 he won the Second international composition competition for choral music in Hasselt (Belgium), Deux poèmes the Baudelaire for a cappella choir, conducted by the Flemish Radio Choir.

Compositions

Deux poèmes de Baudelaire (2001, Mixed choir) Four solo's for Bass clarinet (2001, Bass clarinet) Cantigas d'amor (2001, Singer, Piano) Duo (2002, Clarinet, Oboe) Three (2005, Violin, Horn, percussion) Langs de Randen van de Nacht (Past the edges of the night) (2005, Horn, Strings, harp, percussion) Eight scenes from Alice (2005, Female choir, percussion) Choral, Fugue e Prelude (2005, Wind quintet) Six: a line is a dot that went for a walk (2006, Flugelhorn, Percussion, Double bas) ceux qui sont venus du ciel (2006, A-clarinet) Seven (2006, String quartet) Geheime Tuin (Secret Garden, poems by Hendrik de Vries) (2007, Two soprano's, soprano-/altsax, harmonium, percussion) Thank God Sylvia! We're alive! (2007, Orchestra. Strings and Percussion) If I were God (2007, Mixed choir with viola and cello; text by Astrid Lindgren) Wahnbrot, sechs chorstücke nach Paul Celan (2008, Mixed choir) Les Tènébres (2008, Voice, piano and optional film; text from Baudelaire) Turris Babel (2009, pre-study, Female quintet) Love Song (2009, Male quintet and string quartet) Improvising on Bach's Prelude in C minor (2009, Piano) Three Songs (2010, Singer, Guitar; Poems by Marianne Grootenboer) Turris Babel (2010, Female quintet, stones, sticks and water; text from Athanasius Kircher and the Bible) Monologue (2011, Cello) Tornado (2011, Orchestra. Strings, 2 oboes, 2 horns)