Adriaansz, Peter International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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He studied composition with Louis Andriessen, Brian Ferneyhough and Peter-Jan Wagemans at the conservatoires of The Hague and Rotterdam. He receives commissions from ensembles, festivals and individual musicians from all over the world. His works are regularly performed and broadcast worldwide and have been presented on many stages, from the Holland Festival to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and from Tashkent to Toronto. In 2015, his work Scala II was awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize.

His work on music is characterised by a systematic, investigative approach, in which sound, structure, and audible mathematics are the main ingredients. For today’s percussion marathon, Peter Adriaansz wrote an electroacoustic concerto for a large percussion set-up that includes instruments specially built for this piece by Adriaansz. In this composition Konstantyn is to rhythmically pronounce social and scientific texts from the literature of the Dutch Golden Age. 

Selected works (since 2010): No. 45 Three Vertical Swells for Hammond organ and ensemble (2010), No. 46 Parallels for four musicians (2010–19), No. 47 Three Studies on Elevation for large choir, saxophone quartet, and sinewaves (2010), No. 48 Phrase for four musicians (2011), No. 49 Fraction for four musicians (2011), No. 50 Shadings for string quartet and sine waves (2011), No. 51 Horizon for cello, vibraphone, Chinese gongs and sine waves (2012), No. 52 Scala I for microtonal ensemble, Fokker organ and sine waves (2012), No. 53 TWOMB, for John Cage for percussion sextet (co-written with Maarten Altena: 2012), No. 54 Rising & Falling for orchestra and sine waves (2012–13), No. 55 Attachments for prepared piano and sine waves (2013), No. 56 Scala II for piano, six percussion and sine waves (2014), No. 57 Signals (Scala III) for clarinet, sine waves and pre-recorded parts (2014–20), No. 58 Comfortzone, music theatre for string quartet, ceramic percussion, narrator and sine waves (2015), No. 59 Shadows for double bass and sine waves (2016), No. 60 Scala Kit for organ (2016), No. 61 Environments for amplified ensemble, live electronics and soundtracks (2017–19), No. 65 Alternatim for ensemble and sine pulses (2019), No. 66a Melody 66 for ensemble and sine pulses (2019), No. 67 Chaser for solo percussion, wind ensemble, and sine pulses (2020–21), No. 68 Shimmer for ensemble and sine pulses (2021), No. 69 La Chute for piano and sine waves (2023).