The 13th of December 2013, my composition Biografye was performed by the Arto Ensemble in the Jagthuis, Nederhorst Den Berg. They will also perform this Sunday, the 15th of December 2013 in the Oude Dorpskerk, Bunnik at 3 PM. It was very moving performance of Biografiye. It was especially touching to feel the comprehension and…
In the process of composing my new piece ‘Visions of the Cosmos’ Sometimes composing can take you on a far journey. I decided to write ‘Visions of the Cosmos‘, a piece about the history of how man viewed the place of the earth in the universe, starting with Aristotle to Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo and finally…
Recently, my violin sonata “Soaring” had its premiere in Amsterdam. A video registration of one of the concerts can now be watched on this blog:
Sunday, January 6th, my new violin sonata will have its premiere in the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis, performed by Sjaan Oomen, violin and Bas van Bommel, piano. Ever since composing my violin concerto in 2009, I’ve been wanting to write a sonata for violin as well. Writing the concerto reopened my eyes to all the…
The German audience greatly appreciated my composition A Prayer and A Dance, performed by the Nürnberger Symphoniker the 27th of October 2012 in the Meistersängerhalle. I got called up to the podium twice.
Yesterday I went to a rehearsal of my piece ‘A Prayer and a Dance’ which is being performed tonight in the Meistersingerhalle, Nürnberg, by the Nürnberger Symphoniker. The rehearsal was in an amazing building: the Reichsparteitagsgelände. One could see the building from kilometres away, a huge complex which apparently is one million square metres big.…
What is coincidence? A few days before I left for the Ukraine, I was at the bookshop at the Jewish Historical Museum. I was chatting with the woman behind the counter about my upcoming trip to the Ukraine, where a documentary was going to be made about my search for traces of my family in…
In the Arizona Jewish Post a new entry was published today about the YomShoah commemoration ‘A Grave in the Air’ featuring the Leo Smit composition I finished for this occasion: http://azjewishpost.com/photo-gallery/in-focus-2012-april-june/: ‘More than 400 people attended the community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration, “A Grave in the Air: A Musical Remembrance,” on Sunday, April 22. Organized by…
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