Huib Emmer (born 6 September 1951 in

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

) is a Dutch composer. He also plays

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

and

electric bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and sc ...

. He performed at the Claxon Sound Festival -for improvised music (1984) in the Netherlands, and featured in The Best of the Claxon Festival (1984) voor VPRO-tv (1984) with the Huib Emmer Quinet ''Skid'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSXJ2eY1XVw, The Best of Claxon Festival with Willem van der Ham (sax) Peter van Bergen (sax), Gerard Bouwhuis (keyboard) Hans van der Meer (drums) From 1976 to 1986 Emmer was a member of the Dutch minimal ensemble

Hoketus Hoketus was an amplified musical ensemble founded by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in the Netherlands in 1976. The group was originally formed to perform Louis Andriessen's minimal composition ''Hoketus'', but remained together and began to p ...

and he has performed since 1988 in the ensemble LOOS. Since 1992 he has also composed for electronic media, often in combination with projected video or film.

References

Huib Emmer page at Donemus/MuziekGroup Nederland
(in Dutch)
Huib Emmer
Extensive PDF profile (in Dutch)

External links

* 1951 births Living people 20th-century classical composers Dutch male classical composers Dutch classical composers 21st-century classical composers Musicians from Utrecht (city) 20th-century Dutch male musicians 21st-century male musicians {{Netherlands-composer-stub