Bart de Vrees

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Bart de Vrees studied composition and (classical) percussion at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 2001 he graduated percussion tweede fase and in 2007 he finished his composition studies.

 

Being a percussionist, composer, improviser and performer, de Vrees holds a unique position within the Dutch cultural field, working with both traditional (acoustic) instruments/voices and with new media such as (live) electronics and video. His work is a constant search to integrate or desintegrate music, sound,  words, movement, theatre, visual arts and new media. For many years he has collaborated with a large number of artists from all kinds of artistic disciplines and styles.

 

As a percussionist he works with symphony orchestras and ensembles, plays chamber music, solorecitals and performs in dance/theatre productions. He also plays in bands and is active in the Dutch impro-scene.

De Vrees composed pieces for various ensembles (ao. Asko-Schönberg, Nieuw Ensemble, Collegium Novum Zürich, Adapter Ensemble, Insomnio Ensemble, Modelo62), theatre productions (ao. Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Slagwerk den Haag) and musicians (ao. Diamanda Dramm, Brandt Attema, Miriam Overlach). His music is performed in festivals both in the Netherlands (ao. Holland Festival, November Music, Gaudeamus festival) and abroad (ao. Innovations en Concert (Montreal, Canada), Innersounds (Bucharest, Roumania), Ilios (Norway)), Time of Music festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) and in the music-series of the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Egypt.

In 2019 his work For Flute or piano or mandoline or percussion or bassoon or guitar or clarinet or....... has been selected as one of the Dutch submissions during the ISCM World Music Days in Tallinn, Estiona.

 

De Vrees is one of the founders of Monoták, an Amsterdam based international collective of composers, performers and visual/sound artists and he is one of the co-founders of Splendor a venue in Amsterdam run by musicians.

Last but not least he is one of the organisers and curators of the yearly 'Electronic Extravaganza'

festival organised by Monoták and STEIM in Splendor. The 'Electronic Extravaganza'  is a festival

dedicated to electronic music and other new media in the broadest sense of the word.

 

In 2021 he appointed the first 'stadscomponist' for the beautiful city of Den Bosch and in this role he will amongst other things work closely with theatregroup Artemis and Willem II studios.
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Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Instrumental Music


Obscured Spiral Patterns (2022)
Schemering (aan de vooravond van het einde) (2009)
Duo Ia For Bassclarinet and Percussion (2004)

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Fixed Electronic Media


Posthuman Digital Neurosis (2019)
In my Room (thoughts about a possibility) (2010)

Soloist (Instrument or Voice) and Fixed Electronic Media


Trakl Lied mit einer nicht anwesender Sängerin (2017)
For flute or piano or mandolin or percussion or bassoon or guitar or harp or clarinet or.... (2017)

Instruments and Electronics


Posthuman Digital Neurosis (2019)
Trakl Lied mit einer nicht anwesender Sängerin (2017)
For flute or piano or mandolin or percussion or bassoon or guitar or harp or clarinet or.... (2017)
Nascent/Naissant (2016)
Zonder Titel (ohne titel) (2015)
26 Fragments (or doing things in the age where everything has been done) (2015)
In my Room (thoughts about a possibility) (2010)

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Real Time Electronics


Zonder Titel (ohne titel) (2015)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )


Duo Ia For Bassclarinet and Percussion (2004)
26 Fragments (or doing things in the age where everything has been done) (2015)
Duo Ia For Bassclarinet and Percussion (2004)
For flute or piano or mandolin or percussion or bassoon or guitar or harp or clarinet or.... (2017)
In my Room (thoughts about a possibility) (2010)
Nascent/Naissant (2016)
Obscured Spiral Patterns (2022)
Posthuman Digital Neurosis (2019)
Schemering (aan de vooravond van het einde) (2009)
Trakl Lied mit einer nicht anwesender Sängerin (2017)
Zonder Titel (ohne titel) (2015)