Artist Info: Douwe Eisenga

Dutch composer Douwe Eisenga (born 1961) studied composition with Julius Ament and Wim Diriwachter at the Groningen Conservatory in the Netherlands. He has written pieces for, among others, the Xenakis Ensemble, Super Librum. Python Soxophone Quartet and for pianist’s Gerard Bouwhuis, Jeoren van Veen and Marcel Worms.

Eisenga's chamber opera Kabaal (2001) received acclaim in the Dutch music press. Eisenga continued with Requiem 1953, a large-scale composition for choir and orchestra [read more...]