Karel van Steenhoven

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Karel van Steenhoven (* 1958 in Voorburg , Netherlands ) is a Dutch recorder player and composer .

Life

Steenhoven studied recorder with Kees Boeke at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam . After graduating as a soloist in 1983, he also studied composition with Robert Heppener and Tristan Keuris . Some of his compositions (“Stil Gevaar” and “La Chanteuse et le Bois sauvage”) have been recorded on CD by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.

He is a founding member of the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet , with whom he makes concert tours and CD recordings worldwide and is a guest at all well-known European festivals. Two of the CDs were awarded the Edison Prize. Together with Walter van Hauwe and Kees Boeke he laid the basis for the development of the “Catalog for Contemporary Blockflute Music”.

He is currently working at a recorder school "Modern Recorder Music" (for children aged six and over) and on the improvisation method "Flutedrumming". Steenhoven took part in concerts and recordings with the ensembles Musica Antiqua Köln, The Academy of Ancient Music under the direction of Christopher Hogwood , soloists of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Helmut Müller-Brühl . Karel van Steenhoven taught as a lecturer in the Urbino and Weikersheim summer courses; as a guest lecturer at the music academies in Berlin, Odense, The Hague and Zurich. The musician was a juror at the International Moeck Recorder Competition in London in 1997 and - together with the composer Peter-Jan Wagemans - at the ARS Composition Contest 2006 (VS). Since 1995 he has been professor for recorder at the Karlsruhe University of Music.

Articles and compositions

Items:

  • The ricercar. Virtuoso improvisation and creative practice method (Tibia 1/1992, p. 1, vol. 17, vol. 9)
  • The recorder in the 21st century (Tibia 1/1998, p. 28, vol. 23, vol. 12)
  • Intonation and temperament in unaccompanied instrumental ensembles (The American Recorder, 1999)
  • Il ricercare solistico e d'assieme nel secolo XVI (Ut Orpheus Edition)
  • Ensemble play (in: Lexikon der Flöte, Laaber Verlag)

Compositions for recorder:

  • Stil Gevaar (for recorder quartet)
  • Clouds (for recorder quartet)
  • La Chanteuse et le Bois Sauvage (for recorder quartet)
  • Siri (recorder solo)
  • Tegenwind (recorder solo and fan)
  • Nachtzang (recorder and high voice)
  • The Fugitive (for recorder quartet; 2002)
  • Where Eagles Dare (for two recorders and saxophone; 2010)
  • 7 Minimal Preludes (solo recorder, 2009)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Steenhoven, Karel van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch recorder player, composer, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Voorburg , Netherlands