Composer of the Year 2010

Louis Andriessen has been named Musical America Composer of the Year 2010 in November. On December 14 he was in New York City for the official Musical America awards ceremony at Lincoln Center:



Other 2010 honorees are: Joshua Bell - Instrumentalist of the Year, Elina Garanca - Vocalist of the Year, Warren Jones - “Collaborative Pianist” of the Year, conductor Riccardo Muti - Musician of the Year.

Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed's article on Andriessen retrospects his art and life.

From one of Jongensjaren concerts in The Hague, May 2009.

Andriessen on Andriessen Documentary

Boosey and Hawkes anounces new documentary on Andriessen directed by Tommy Pearson of Red Ted Films.
The video combines an interview filmed at Andriessen's apartment in Amsterdam with extracts from key works including De Staat, M is for Man, Music, Mozart, and Writing to Vermeer.

See here.

Blokken Graphic

To continue in graphic manner - one of the pieces contained in "Souvenirs d'enfance" (1966) is Blokken whose peculiar score suggests edgy sound.

Rosa, the Death of a Composer Drawings

In 2000 the group of Belgrade based artists and theorists founded Walking Theory. Our first theory performance looked like series of theatricaly performed fragments of lectures. Mine was partly based on concept of the death of the author, and theorization of Andriessen's and Peter Greenaway's horse drama "Rosa". Alleged conspiracy against composers inspired visual artist Sinisa Ilic to make few drawings.

Belgrade Archive 2004

These days I am back to my Belgrade archives. In 2004 Louis Andriessen was in Belgrade together with Gilius van Bergeijk, Bernhard Lang and Jasna Velickovic, where their lectures and pieces were part of Composers in First Person festival. You can see photos from this event here.
I made few more pictures:

Louis Andriessen and pianist Nada Kolundzija talking about performance details of Image de Moreau (2004)

Portrait of Louis Andriessen walking along river Danube in Zemun, Belgrade (2004)

Workers Union in Boston

New Music Festival at Boston Conservatory includes performance of Workers Union (November 15th).
"Only in the case that every player plays with such an intention that his part is an essential one, the work will succeed, just as as in the political work".
Here you can see Bang on a Can All Stars performing this piece.