Richard Rijnvos

Richard Rijnvos (born 16 December 1964, in Tilburg) is a Dutch composer.

Education and influences

Rijnvos studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian Ferneyhough. He received a DAAD scholarship and attended a postgraduate course at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg.

Awards

In 2000 Rijnvos was awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Award for Times Square Dance.

In August 2008 he was awarded the Buma Toonzetters Prize for NYConcerto.

Other activities

Between October 2009 and 2016 Rijnvos was Head of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Durham; in 2014, he was appointed Chair of Composition at the same institution, and continues to serve in that role. He is also chairman of the Union of Composers in the Netherlands, and artistic advisor of the Ives Ensemble, of which he was managing director between 1991 and 2000.

Note

The article incorporates material translated from the Dutch Wikipedia as of December 2009.