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| Tristan Keuris was born in Amersfoort, Holland, in 1946. He studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Utrecht Conservatory, where he graduated with the Composition Prize.
In 1975 Keuris wrote Sinfonia for orchestra, a work that firmly established him as a composer of international importance, winning the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize and subsequently receiving many performances worldwide. In 1982 he was honoured with the Cultural Award of Hilversum, in particular for Movements for orchestra (1982) and the Piano Concerto (1980). Important later commissions included Symphonic Transformations (1987) for the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (1986) which the Rascher Saxophone Quartet has performed all over the world, the orchestral Three Michelangelo Songs (1990) written for mezzo soprano Jard van Nes, Concerto for Two Cellos (1992), the major choral and orchestral song-cycle commissioned by Dutch Radio, Laudi (1993), Symphony in D (1995), a piece commissioned by the Music Centre, Hilversum for its inauguration ceremony, Arcade (1995) and Violin Concerto No.2. In 1995 he received a Koussevitzky Foundation award. Besides his work as a composer, Keuris taught at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, and was head of the composition department at Utrecht Conservatory. He was frequently invited to lecture and has visited America, Norway, Germany and the UK. Tristan Keuris was one of the most striking and original musical voices of recent years, displaying a mastery of form and technique, a synthesis of style. Other Sites of interest: http://www.schirmer.com/composers/keuris/bio http://www.dhtmonemus.nl/en/composers/keuris_tristan/biografie.html |
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