Kees Boeke (composer)

Kees Boeke (* 1950 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch composer , gambist and recorder player .

Life

After studying at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (recorder with Frans Brüggen and cello with Anner Bijlsma), which he graduated with honors, he founded the Ensemble Quadro Hotteterre. He was also a long-time member of Kees Ottens medieval and renaissance ensemble Syntagma Musicum and co-founder of Sour Cream (1972), Little Consort Amsterdam (1978) and Mala Punica (1989).

In 1970 Kees Boeke began teaching in The Hague and in 1975 at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Since 1990 he has been teaching recorder and early music at the University of Music and Theater in Zurich. Since 2006 he has been a professor for medieval and renaissance music at the Institute for Early Music in Trossingen.

Kees Boeke has given seminars and master classes for recorder and early music all over the world - a. a. for the Deller Academy (Lacoste, France, 1972–1982), Corsi Internazionali di Musica Antica (Urbino, Italy, 1975–1982) as well as for the Early Music Festival in Vancouver - and was the artistic director for the international early music courses in San Floriano (Polcenigo, Italy, 1983–1993) responsible. Since 1989 he has been working with the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, for which he produced Ludovico da Viadana's Vespers ( Salmi a 4 cori / Psalms for 4 choirs , 1612) in 1994 . Kees Boeke is a regular guest at the Ricercar Consort.

In the meantime, Kees Boeke has recorded over 70 records and CDs for Teldec, Das Alte Werk, EMI, RCA, Nuova Era, Channel Classics, Arcana, Symphonia, Attacca, Erato, Philips, Stradivarius, Glossa and his own label Olive Music. In the field of contemporary music, he and Antonio Politano founded DUIX, a duo that specializes in contemporary music for bass recorder and electronic recorder and mainly performs new music by Italian composers. In addition, Kees Boeke is also active as a composer and editor of early and contemporary music.

Since 2001 he has been working closely with Laurenz Lütteken (University of Zurich) in projects and seminars in the area of ​​the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Dufays Chansonoeuvre, Salve Reginas from the Trient Codices, Ockeghem's Missae Cuiusvis toni and Prolationum, Josquin des Prez, the Chantilly Codex, Georg Philipp Telemann.

In 2003 he started his own CD label, Olive Music, with his wife, singer Jill Feldman. The two also founded a new ensemble "Tetraktys" for medieval music. The fields of work are u. a. the Trecento, Dufay Chansons, the Squarcialupi Codex, and the complete recording of the Chantilly Codex.

Compositions

• 1970: 4 in 3 in 2 in 1 (revised 1980)
• 1971: Tombeau de Hotteterre
• 1974: The history dump 2351
• 1993: 'The unfolding' the unfolding
• 1997: VCS 7

Web links

• Works by and about Kees Boeke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Kees Boeke (English)
• 5 questions to Kees Boeke (English)