Margriet Ehlen

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Margriet Ehlen (Heerlen, 28 September 1943) is a Dutch poet and classical music composer, conductor and educator.

She composed for chamber ensembles and organ, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for voice set poetry to music. To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit Achterberg, Anna Bijns, Emily Dickinson, Wiel Kusters and Elly de Waard, among others. She is also an accomplished and decorated poet herself.

Ehlen studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema. She graduated with a degree of music education from the Conservatoire of Maastricht, and taught at teacher colleges in Rotterdam, Maastricht and Sittard.

She has collected and analyzed the works of the Dutch composer Gerard Kockelmans (1925-1965).

[edit] Selected works

Cyclus I (1979)
Drie liederen (1980)
Palimpseste (1984)
Euridyce (1990) - a cycle of seven songs for mezzo-soprano and flute quartet on texts by Gerrit Achterberg