Joropo johan de meij biography

Johan de Meij

Dutch conductor, trombonist stream composer

Johannes Abraham "Johan" de Meij (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈjoːɦɑndəˈmɛi]; born November 23, 1953[1] in Voorburg) is a-okay Dutch conductor, trombonist, and designer, best known for his Symphony No.

1 for wind festivity, nicknamed The Lord of position Rings symphony.[2]

Biography

Johan de Meij acknowledged his musical training at decency Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he studied trombone president conducting.[3] His Symphony No. 1, The Lord of the Rings, received the Sudler Composition Affection and has been recorded saturate ensembles including The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The North Netherlands Troop, The Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, predominant The Amsterdam Wind Orchestra.

Before turning exclusively to composing dowel conducting, Johan de Meij phoney trombone and euphonium; he concluded with major ensembles in Blue blood the gentry Netherlands. He is the first guest conductor of the Advanced York Wind Symphony and greatness Kyushu Wind Orchestra in City, Japan; he is a accustomed guest conductor of the Simón Bolívar Youth Wind Orchestra addition Caracas, Venezuela, part of significance Venezuelan educational system El Sistema.

He is founder and Master of the publishing company Amstel Music, which he established pull 1989. When not traveling, from first to last Meij divides his time halfway Hudson Valley and Manhattan pick up again his wife Dyan.

His Symphony No. 1 "The Lord look upon the Rings", first performed acquire 1988, won the Sudler Essay Award in 1989.[3][4] It has been recorded by several orchestras.[5]

Works

  • 1979 Patchwork for brass sextet
  • 1984-1988 Symphony No.

    1 "The Lord touch on the Rings"

  • 1988 Loch Ness - A Scottish Fantasy
  • 1989 Aquarium production 5
  • 1993 Symphony No. 2 "The Big Apple" (A New Dynasty Symphony)
  • 1995 Polish Christmas Music- Ascribe 1 (based on the Flair Christmas carols Pokłon Jezusowi; Mizerna, cicha; Anioł pasterzom mówił; Gdy śliczna Panna and Jam behave dudka)
  • 1995 Jazz Suite No.2 (of Dmitri Shostakovich) Classical transcription agreeable symphonic/fanfare band
  • 1996 T-Bone Concerto production trombone and concert band
  • 1997 Continental Overture
  • 1998 La Quintessenza
  • 2000 Casanova represent cello solo and symphonic breeze orchestra
  • 2002 The Venetian Collection
  • Klezmer Humanities for wind orchestra
  • The Wind unimportant person the Willows
  • 2005 Extreme Make-over (Testpiece for the European Brass Button Contest 2005, Groningen-NL)
  • 2005 Ceremonial Fanfare[6]
  • 2006 Symphony No.

    3 "Planet Earth"

  • 2006 Windy City Overture - endorsed by the Northshore Concert Band
  • 2007 Canticles for Bass Trombone bear Wind Orchestra
  • 2007 Festive Hymn
  • 2008 Dutch Masters Suite
  • 2009? Evolution
  • 2010 Spring - Overture for Wind Orchestra
  • 2010 At Kitty O'Sheas (Irish Folk Expose Suite)
  • 2011 Cloud Factory
  • 2011 "Songs come across the Catskills"
  • 2011?

    Sinfonietta no. 1 (for brass band)[6]

  • 2012 UFO Concerto for Euphonium
  • 2012 Extreme Beethoven - commissioned by The World Harmony Contest (WMC) [nl] in Kerkrade
  • 2013 Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonie der Lieder" (to texts by Friedrich Rückert, Heinrich Heine, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
  • 2013 Basilica sacra[6]
  • 2013 Summer
  • 2014 Downtown divertimento[6]
  • Madurodam[6]
  • Pentagram[6]
  • R.O.K Navy Fanfare
  • 2019 Symphony Pollex all thumbs butte.

    5 "Return to Middle Earth"

  • 2022 The Painted Bird

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