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Kristoffer Zegers is a Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

composer.

Taught by Gilius van Bergeijk

Gilius van Bergeijk

Gilius van Bergeijk is a Dutch composer.Taught by Kees van Baaren and Dick Raaymakers , Gilius van Bergeijk is a highly respected teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag...

, Jan Boerman, Martijn Padding, Clarence Barlow

Clarence Barlow

Clarence Barlow is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.-Biography:Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent...

, Diderik Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.

In Zegers' music microtonal

Microtonal music

Microtonal music is music using microtones—intervals of less than an equally spaced semitone. Microtonal music can also refer to music which uses intervals not found in the Western system of 12 equal intervals to the octave.-Terminology:...

clusters are the main object. His music is about slow developments in clusters via glissandi

Glissando

In music, a glissando is a glide from one pitch to another. It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, to glide. In some contexts it is distinguished from the continuous portamento...

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Because of that: his motto "Glissandéz mes enfants, Glissandéz toujours!" after César Franck

César Franck

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....

: "Moduléz mes enfants, Moduléz toujours!".
His work "Singularity IV" has been played at the Royal Concertgebouw

Concertgebouw

The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" literally translates into English as "concert building"...

in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

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Zegers' music has been played in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Italy and several radiostations in the world.
Pianophasing

Pianophasing

Pianophasing is based on a vision of the work's composer, Kristoffer Zegers.As a child, Zegers was fascinated by the rhythmic phases of church-bells, which never ring in time. When he began to compose, he noticed that even pieces of music with minimal rhythmical differences are sometimes subject to...

: In November 2008 Zegers wrote pianophasing I, commissioned by the welknown festival Novemermusic in the Netherlands. In November 2009 Kristoffer Zegers was asked in the welknown Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...

to play his composition Pianophasing

Pianophasing

II, a concerto for 50 pianist on 25 pianos. Pianophasing II had been played in several countries and was on BBC radio broadcast. March 2010 Pianophasing is shortlised for: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards

Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards

The Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards are given annually for live classical music-making in the United Kingdom. The awards were first held in 1989 and are independent of any commercial interest....

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14 Oktober 2012 Pianophasing will be played in the Soundstream Festival in Adelaide Australia.

Electronic music without ensemble

Singularity IV, Electronic music (1997)
Tod und Verklärung, Electronic music (2000)

Electronic music with ensemble

Venlafaxine, for 4 saxofoons (2001)
Electroshocks, for 8 saxofoons (Novembermusic (2003)
Singulariteit VI for12 solosingers clavichord and computermusic (commissioned ASKO kamerkoor (2007)

Music for ensemble (without electronic)

Pianophasing (2004) (Novembermusic the Netherlands)
Pianophasing II (2009) (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, England)

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