Guus Ponsioen

Guus Ponsioen (born March 27, 1951 in Alphen aan den Rijn ) is a Dutch singer and composer . After studying theater, he first worked for Dutch cabaret . He set texts and poems by numerous Dutch authors such as Willem Wilmink , Jan Boerstoel , Ivo de Wijs , Ad de Bont , Suzanne van Lohuizen and Heleen Verburg to music . Later he concentrated on music for children's and youth theater .

Works

As the main composer for the Dutch theater group Wederzijds, he created the music for the pieces, among other things

• The special life of Hilletje Jans (1983/84),
• The ballad of Garuma (1988/89),
• Hitler's childhood (1991/92),
• Transit (1995),
• Swans always look so new (1987/88) and
• The Seed Showers (2004).

In Germany he worked with Dieter Kümmel and the Freiburg Children's and Youth Theater , for which we created productions

• The devil with the three golden hairs (1989/90),
• The story of the tree, The three wishes (1990/91),
• Parzival, Seven Wonders of the World (1996) and
• Nero Corleone (1998, based on Elke Heidenreich's book for young people ).

Other works:

• Stellaluna (Charlotte Martins Theater, Seattle USA, 1997),
• Alone in the world ( Antwerp , 1998),
• Perô or the secrets of the night (arrangement and music, 1994),
• the comic opera for children Three old men who did not want to die (based on the play by Suzanne van Lohuizen , Amsterdam 1999).

• The secret of the black poison - a musical between book printing and the peasant war (libretto Christian Schidlowsky ); Composition of the youth musical for the Peter Cornelius Conservatory Mainz on the occasion of the Gutenberg year 2000.

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• http://www.schott-international.com/shop/php/Proxy.php?purl=/ssh/persons/az/guus-ponsioen/
• http://www.theaterstueckverlag.de/Autoren/autoren/bioA/ponsioen_guus/showAut

Web links

• http://www.guusponsioen.nl/ Homepage of the artist with 5 audio samples
• Page about Guus Ponsioen's piece Moby Dick a musical adventure based on Herman Melville