Jan Van der Roost (born

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, 1956) is a

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composer. Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in

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(1974-1979), and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in

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. Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of

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and

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at the

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. He currently also is a guest professor at the Shobi Institute of Music,

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and the

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. Jan Van der Roost has composed over 90 works; most are for winds, like brass band,

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, and

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, but some are for

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. He has also dabbled in composing various pieces in the style of late 17th- to early 18th-century dance music, and is often cited by Tom Collier and

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in their lectures as a prime example of music transformation.

Works

* 1834 (Concert band) * A Highland Rhapsody (Concert band) * A Highland Rhapsody (Fanfare) * A Year Has Four Lives (Children's choir) * Adagio for Brass (Brass band) * Adagio for Winds (Concert band) * Adagio for Winds (Fanfare) * Albion (Brass band) * Algona Overture (Concert band) * Amazonia (Concert band) * Apollo * Arghulesques (for Clarinet Quartet) * Arpád (part 2 from 'Sinfonia Hungarica') * Arsenal * Attila! (part 1 from 'Sinfonia Hungarica') * Autumn * Avalon * Balkanya * Ballad for Bass Trombone * Bassonnerie * Beata viscera * Brasiliana * By the River * Cantabile e Ritmico * Canterbury Chorale * Canzona gothica (for Trombone) * Castellum * Céad Míle Fáilte * Centennial Prelude * Ceremonial March * Chemical Suite (for Trombone quartet) * Christmas Time * Concerto Doppio (Per due clarinetti e piano 4 aspetti sonori) * Concerto Grosso (for Cornet, Trombone and Concert band) * Concerto per Tromba * Concierto de Homenaje (for guitar and piano) * Concordia * Condacum * Contemplations * Contrasto Grosso (For Recorder Quartet and String Quartet) * Conzensus * Coventry Carol (From Joy To The World) * Credentium * Crescent Moon (Concert Band) * Cuprioles * Domus * Donar * Dublin Dances * Dynamica * Flashing Winds (Concert Band) * Glorioso * Images (Rental) (For Alto Saxophone and Orchestra) * Jupiter * Manhattan Pictures * Mercury * Metalla * Montana March * Nobilitas * Orion * Osakan Jubilee * Puszta: Four Gipsy Dances * Rikudim * Signature * Singapura Suite * Spartacus - Symphonic Tone Poem * Tirol Terra Fortis * Volcano * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ''This list is currently incomplete; you can help by going to www.janvanderroost.com/en/work/ and adding more of his compositions in alphabetical order.''

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