Klaas de Vries (composer)

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Klaas de Vries
Klaas de Vries in 2006
Background information
Born	July 15, 1944 (1944-07-15) (age 63), Terneuzen, Netherlands
Genre(s)	Contemporary classical music: Rotterdam School
Occupation(s)	Composer, Lecturer of composition
Label(s)	Composers' Voice NM Classics

Klaas de Vries (born Terneuzen, July 15, 1944) is a Dutch composer. He is one of the founders of a music style that became known as the Rotterdam School.

Among the teachers of De Vries studied were Otto Ketting in the Netherlands and Milko Keleman in Germany.

The scenic oratorio A King Riding, for which he received the 1988 Matthijs Vermeulen Award, is one of one of his best known works.

Klaas de Vries is a lecturer at the Conservatoire of Rotterdam. Among his many students are Thorkell Atlason, António Chagas Rosa, Oscar van Dillen, Andreas Kunstein, Sergio Luque, César de Oliveira, Joey Roukens, Edward Top, and Jian-Hua Zhuang.

[edit] Discography

• A King Riding (Composers' Voice)
• Areas, Bewegingen, Follia, Discantus, Phrases (Composers' Voice)
• Diafoní­a, Sub nocte per umbras, De Profundis (Composers' Voice)
• Bart Berman, piano: Vriend, Hekster, Loevendie, De Vries, Kleinbussink (Golf)
• The contemporary harpsichord (NM Classics)
• Osiris trio and guests (NM Classics)
• Cappella Amsterdam (Q disc)

[edit] External links

• (Dutch) Biography at Donemus