componist

Top, Edward

Dutch Canadian composer Edward Top studied composition and violin at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in The Netherlands. Primarily studying with Peter-Jan Wagemans he has also worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, ...

gerelateerde werken

Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Blazersensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 2h trp trb tb

Das letzte Gold verfallener Sterne : for soprano and ensemble, 2002 / poem: Georg Trakl, Christina Viola Oorebeek

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: sopr fl(pic) ob cl cl-b perc cel hp 2vl vla vc cb

Caliban Sings (Three Songs from William Shakespeare's The Tempest) : Version for mezzo-soprano and ensemble / Elmer Schönberger; lyrics from William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: mezzo fl/picc/fl-a cl/cl-b h perc hp pf 2vln vla vc db

Beverwijck overture : for soprano and amplified ensemble, 2002 / text by the composer based on a diary fragment of Anthony de Hooges (1647), David Dramm

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting: sopr 1111 sax-t sax-b 1110 drums g-b synth str(2vl vla vc)

compositie

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Overige auteurs:
Michaelis, Hanny (tekstdichter/librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus (tekstdichter/librettist)
Top, Edward (tekstdichter/librettist)
Toelichting:
In Family Songs it was my objective to move towards simplicity and away from my usually complex and maximalist style. The texts, in both Dutch – my mother tongue - and English, are all chosen and written to express the honesty of life, memory and expectations of parent- and childhood. As such, upon reading, they almost dictated the music in an intuitive and folk-music-like way.

Edward Top, 2013