for soprano, violin, cello and harp.
The composition consists of five independent songs, so they don't really form a cycle..
Written for Trio Ibert, Jan Erik van Regteren Altena (violin), Eduard van Regteren Altena (cello) en Ernestine Stoop (harp) with soprano Irene Maessen.
Première: 9 January 2001, in Podium Gigant, Apeldoorn by Trio Ibert en Irene Maessen.
duration: approx.. 12'
Currently working on a work for saxophone quartet, requested by the Bron Saxophone Quartet.
My latest work is "Ritual text for the afterlife" for women's choir and tubular bells.
Ancient Greek goldplates with texts - recently found in graves - that were carried by the dead on their journey to afterlife.
In progress is a work of a much bigger scale: Blodeuwedd, a dance poem for narrator, singer/reciter, dancer and ensemble. The poem is by the Welsh poet Tony Conran.
Another recent work (2016) is
O me! O life! (Walt Whitman) for choir and string quintet.
My guitar sonata (1982) is now being published by
Editiones Eudora (Madrid),
Draaf, Foekje. Draaf!Watch the television interview. (You need to understand Frisian, though).