29 November - 03 December

Jos Zwaanenburg graduated with distinction in 1985 from Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Conservatory, where he studied flute and composition. In the preceding year he was one of the prize-winners at the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition, receiving an honorary mention for his performances of his own compositions.

 

Jos has performed extensively throughout Europe, the U.S., South America, India, the Russian Federation and Japan, solo, as a member of various orchestras, as a soloist with orchestras and as a member of chamber music ensembles playing classical as well as improvised music, and on many radio and television broadcasts.

 

Jos is known for his research into extended playing techniques for the flute, in which he combines his interest in performance, theatre, composition and live electronics. In 1986 and 1987, Jos initiated the development of the open-hole alto flute, in collaboration with the Dutch flute makers Eva Kingma and Dirk Kuiper.

 

Currently he is a lecturer at the Conservatory of Amsterdam where he teaches live electronics and the Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques course. He is an International Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

Arnoud Noordegraaf (NL, 1974) is a composer and director of operas and music theatre. His productions form a class apart within Dutch contemporary music, combining interdisciplinary media in compositions and theatrical forms, resulting in ‘a remarkable unity in style and atmosphere’ (NRC Handelsblad).
 

Arnoud has worked with acclaimed producers like De Nederlandse Opera, Holland Festival, November Music festival etc. His works have been performed in over a dozen countries. He has worked with artists like Hal Hartley, Gary Hill and for his 2015 Holland Festival opera with Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
 

Arnoud has been a guest teacher at the Rietveld academy, Aldeburgh Music Centre, Maastricht Theatre School, Amsterdam conservatory, Amsterdam theatre school, and the Xiamen university.

Emily Bannister is an eclectic performer with a passion for contemporary music. She aims to bring the Recorder and its repertoire to wider audiences, through theatricality, interdisciplinary art and emotive themes.

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After studying Musicology at the University of Birmingham, she was driven by her passion for performance to continue to the Royal College of Music, where she was taught by Ashley Solomon, Julien Feltrin and María Martinez Ayerza. After graduating with a Distinction, she has worked in a number of projects, primarily with the multi award winning Recorder Quartet BLOCK4. Since 2014 they have won awards such as the Royal Overseas League in London, Gold Medal at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition in Maryland, USA, and performed at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Buckingham Palace and the National Gallery, As a soloist, sge was the proud winner of the President’s Prize for Contemporary Music at the International Bromsgrove Compeition in 2016. This passion for the further exploration of contemporary music led her to my latest studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she graduated under the tutelage of Jorge Isaac. Since studying in Amsterdam she has begun to explore work in interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with other art forms such as dance, theatre and visuals