Christiaan de Jong, composer

I am a composer, guitarist (electric and classical), flutist (1/4 tone flute and baroque transverse flute) with a broad interest. You can notice influences from all kinds of music in my work. In fact I try to find a balance between physical music, related to dance and direct expression like in jazz, flamenco, tango, rock-pop and the more spiritual and intellectuel music related to world of renaissance and barroque counterpoint, avantgarde composition techniques, Indian classical music and ofcourse also the pure structural sound world. Also I find much inspiration in literature, painting, nature, politics and the personality of the musicians I work with.

I composed for my own ensembles and for Orkest De Volharding, Duo Daniel Ahlert & Birgit Schwab, Grupo Circulo, Banda Municipal de Barcelona, Duo Matthijs Koene & Stefan Gerritsen, Duo Wiek Hijmans & Anna McMichael, Barcelona Percussion Group, Harry Sparnaay, Marcel Worms, Sound of Colors Ensemble +Beatrice Voellmy, Ensemble BB, Grup XXI, Kaida, Ralph van Raat, Ensamble Rosario and Ensemble Areté

Now I am or in the next future I will be working on pieces for Duo Erik Bosgraaf & Izhar Elias (Netherlands), a new tango project for various ensembles, a quartet (violin, electric guitar, trumpet and violoncello), for Globus Ensemble (Netherlands, a new project based on Chinese fairytailes including pipaplayer Liu Fang) a piece and flamenco - jazz project for EBNM, collaborating with Jeronimo Maya(Spain), a guitarquartet for Quartet Galiu and a piece for guitar and saxophone for Duo Otani-Gascon, a piece for Ensemble Sizle (Netherlands) a tango for the group Astorpia, a piece for Amstel Quartet (4 sax + tablas); and on top of that I&nbsp, I am preparing a multicultural chamber opera to be ready in 2009.

I played with: Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman, Jorrit Dijkstra, Riccardo Massari, Michael Svoboda, Luc Houtkamp, Frances Marie Uitti, Wiek Hijmans, J. Mª Balanyà, Ananda Sukarlan, Robert Dick, Harry Sparnaay, Garth Knox, Oene van Geel, Eric Vloeimans, Ere Lievonen, theatre company "Sheer Madness" and many other fine artists.

I founded Ensemble Barcelona Nova Música in Barcelona and organize there a contemporary music series called "Projecte International d'Influencies Musicals (see top friends) , where I combine very different kinds of contemporary music. In Holland I founded a new intercultural ensemble called "Globus Ensemble" and started to organize concerts for the moment being in Weesp ( Gooi en Vecht Concerten )

Thanks for visiting this myspace, reading, listening and eventuel comments or notes, please don't send me big advertisements. I am always interested in collaborations with interesting ensembles and musicians, dance companies, film makers and thetre companies as a composer, flutist, guitarist or/and organizer.