The term Rotterdam School is used to refer to a group of

composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Classical music, Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. E ...

related to the city of

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

. What started in the final decade of the twentieth century within a small circle of composition students at the Rotterdam Conservatory with a manifesto by Rotterdam composer

Oscar van Dillen Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (born 25 June 1958 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist. Education Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music (sitar, tabla, vocal) with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tri ...

, has been taken more seriously now in larger musical circles. Many Rotterdam composers have made successful careers in contemporary or theatre music. It is impossible to accommodate all Rotterdam composers together in one kind of style or musical æsthetic. Therefore, one could not really speak of a school in the traditional meaning of the word. The colloquium (called "practicums") at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, led by composition teachers Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries, played an important, unifying role.

Composers

*Thorkell Atlason * Erik de Clerq * Nuno Corte-Real *

* Rocco Havelaar * Bart de Kemp * Hans Koolmees *

Astrid Kruisselbrink Astrid Kruisselbrink (born 9 February 1972) is a Dutch composer. While studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory (1993–99) she won first prize at the European Young Women Composers Contest with the choral work ''Zijn lippen zijn uw lippen'' (His Lip ...

Andreas Kunstein Andreas Kunstein (born 25 June 1967) is a German composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia). In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied history and philosophy in ...

* Marcel Minderhoud *

Philemon Mukarno Philemon may refer to: In the Bible * Epistle to Philemon, a book in the New Testament * Philemon (biblical figure), recipient of Saint Paul's Epistle to Philemon Arts and entertainment * ''Philémon'' (comics), a Franco-Belgian comic book ser ...

Florian Magnus Maier Florian Magnus Maier (born 1973), also known as Morean, is a German classical composer, guitarist, producer and vocalist of the bands Alkaloid, Dark Fortress, and Noneuclid. Although born in Munich, he has resided in the Netherlands for over 20 ...

* Christina Viola Oorebeek *

Joey Roukens Joey Roukens (born in Schiedam, 28 March 1982) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music. Roukens studied composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatoire and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano pr ...

* Felipe Pérez Santiago *

Edward Top Siemon Edward Top (born 1 January 1972 in Ommen) is a Dutch composer. Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Kl ...

* Marc Verhoeven * Klaas de Vries * Peter-Jan Wagemans * Juan Felipe Waller *

Evrim Demirel Evrim Demirel (born November 17, 1977) is a Turkish composer and jazz pianist. Evrim Demirel was educated in Izmir High School of Fine Arts and he studied piano with Nergis Sakirzade. Then he enrolled at Bilkent University in Ankara becoming a ...

* Dimitris Andrikopoulos

References

External links

Rotterdamse School in Theater Lantaren/Venster
at Nieuwsbank
Elektronische muziek in de Rotterdamse School
at Lantaren Venster
Doelenkwartet Rotterdam String Quartets
{{Authority control Dutch music Rotterdam Composers by city