Royal Conservatory of The Hague
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The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (in Dutch: Koninklijk
Conservatorium Den Haag) is a conservatorium of music, providing higher education
in music and dance
, it is located in The Hague
, Netherlands
.
in 1826.
Koninklijk
Koninklijk or Koninklijke is an honorary title given to certain companies and non-profit organizations in Belgium and the Netherlands, by the King or Queen in the respective country. It was first introduced by Louis Bonaparte in 1807, the King of the Netherlands at that time, who awarded the title...
Conservatorium Den Haag) is a conservatorium of music, providing higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
in music and dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, it is located in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
.
The Conservatory
The Conservatory was founded by King William IWilliam I of the Netherlands
William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....
in 1826.
Courses
The Royal Conservatory offers Bachelors and Masters courses in the following areas:- European classical musicClassical musicClassical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
- Early MusicEarly musicEarly music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
- JazzJazzJazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
- SonologyInstitute of SonologyThe Institute of Sonology is an education and research center for electronic music and computer music based at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands.-Background:...
- Image and Sound/ArtScience
- Art of Sound
- Musical compositionMusical compositionMusical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
- BalletBalletBallet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
- OperaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
Some notable former students
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- Hendrik AndriessenHendrik AndriessenHendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriessen composed in a musical idiom that revealed strong French influences...
- Richard AyresRichard AyresRichard Ayres is a British composer and teacher.Ayres was born in Cornwall, England in 1965. He followed Morton Feldman’s classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at Huddersfield Polytechnic until 1989, graduating with...
- Richard BakerRichard Baker (composer/conductor)Richard Baker is a British composer and conductor, known equally for his own highly charged and distinctive music and for his performances of contemporary music, especially the music of his contemporaries in the UK.-Life:...
- Lucy van DaelLucy van DaelLucy van Dael is a Dutch baroque violinist and member of the faculty of the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her principal violin studies were at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague....
- Rob van KreeveldRob van KreeveldRob van Kreeveld is a Dutch pianist.-Career:Rob van Kreeveld started playing the piano when he was nine years old. American jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had been a great influence on him early on. April 1960 Rob van Kreeveld went to Germany with the now legendary Dutch Indorock group the Black...
- Thilo Schaller
- Geoffrey LancasterGeoffrey LancasterGeoffrey Lancaster AM is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky...
- Vanessa LannVanessa LannVanessa Lann has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied at the Tanglewood Institutewith Ruth Schonthal. She also attended the Westchester Conservatory of Musicat Harvard University, where her main teachers were Earl Kim, Peter Lieberson, and Leon Kirchner...
- Yannos MargaziotisYannos MargaziotisYannos Margaziotis is a Greek violinist with a career as a soloist with several major orchestras and ensembles including the Greek National Opera Orchestra , the Athens State Orchestra, the Royal Danish Orchestra, and the Orchestra of Contemporary Music of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation...
- Ivo PostiIvo PostiIvo Posti is an Estonian countertenor. Between 1996–2001 he studied with Aino Kôiv at the Heino Eller Music School in Tartu. From 2001 until 2007, he studied at Royal Conservatory of The Hague where his teachers were Rita Dams and Barbara Pearson...
- Sergey SmirnovSergey SmirnovSergey Smirnov may refer to:* Sergei Andreyevich Smirnov - Russian footballer* Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov - Russian KGB/FSB official* Sergei Sergeyevich Smirnov - Russian footballer...
- Lawrence RenesLawrence RenesLawrence Renes is a Dutch conductor. Renes studied violin at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, from which he graduated cum laude in 1993....
- Hanna Shybayeva
- Erwin Poelstra
- Michel van der AaMichel van der AaMichel van der Aa is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.- Early years :Michel van der Aa trained as a recording engineer at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
- Victor VarelaVictor VarelaVíctor Varela is a Venezuelan-Swedish composer based in Gothenburg. His compositions include works for orchestra, vocal and instrumental chamber music, with electronics and computer devices.-Education:...
- Carina Vinke
- Rodney Waschka IIRodney Waschka IIRodney Waschka II is an American composer known for his algorithmic compositions and his theatrical works.-Biography:Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and earned his doctorate at the University of North Texas...
- Eva-Maria WestbroekEva-Maria WestbroekEva-Maria Westbroek is a Dutch soprano. She is one of three daughters of the geology researcher and professor Peter Westbroek....
- Ananda SukarlanAnanda Sukarlan-Background:He is the son of Sukarlan and Poppy Kumudastuti. He started his music lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Martani Widjajanti. After graduating from Kolese Kanisius in 1986, he continued to study in University of Hartford in Connecticut, under a scholarship from Petrof...
- Hendrik Jan Renes
- Martin van de Merwe
- Herman Jeurissen
- Ab Koster
- GertJan Loot
- Huug Steketee
- Kristoffer ZegersKristoffer ZegersKristoffer Zegers is a Dutch composer.Taught by Gilius van Bergeijk, Jan Boerman, Martijn Padding, Clarence Barlow, Diderik Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.In Zegers' music microtonal clusters are the main object...
- Ad van Zon
Some notable present and former staff
- Louis AndriessenLouis AndriessenLouis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
- Dina AppeldoornDina AppeldoornChristina Adriana Arendina Koudijs-van Appeldoorn was a Dutch composer and pianist.-Biography:Dina Appeldoorn was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She attended the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she studied composition under F.E.A. Koeberg and later with Johan Wagenaar...
- Clarence BarlowClarence BarlowClarence 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...
- Konrad BoehmerKonrad BoehmerKonrad Boehmer is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth.Boehmer was born in Berlin. His music reflects his Marxist political agenda, which is made explicit in many of his writings from the late 1960s and 1970s...
- Bert BoerenBert BoerenBert Boeren is a Dutch jazz trombonist and educator.Boeren was born in Vught, Netherlands, 11 March 1962. He took up the trombone at the age of sixteen, and in 1981 he went to study classical music at the Conservatory in Utrecht, in 1983 moving to the Conservatory in Hilversum in order to study...
- Frans BrüggenFrans BrüggenFrans Brüggen is a well-known Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.-Biography:Brüggen studied recorder and flute at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum. He also studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1955, at the age of 21, he was appointed professor at the Royal...
- Enrico GattiEnrico GattiEnrico Gatti is a baroque violinist.Gatti graduated from the Geneva Conservatory as a puplil of Chiara Banchini and the Dutch Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Sigiswald Kuijken. He has been a professor of Baroque violin at several conservatories...
- Wim HenderickxWim HenderickxWim Henderickx is a Flemish composer based in Antwerp, Belgium.He teaches composition at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and studied at IRCAM, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Darmstadt New Music Summer School.-Style:His music is...
- Jan KleinbussinkJan KleinbussinkJan Kleinbussink is a Dutch classical musician who specializes in the performance of old music. He is the cantor-organist of the Central Church in Deventer, also known as the Lebuïnus Church. He is also well known for his contributions as an instrumentalist and conductor to recordings of J.S....
- Ton KoopmanTon KoopmanTon Koopman is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist.Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the organ , harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam...
- Yannis KyriakidesYannis KyriakidesYannis Kyriakides is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music...
- Geoffrey Douglas MadgeGeoffrey Douglas MadgeGeoffrey Douglas Madge is an Australian classical pianist and composer.Madge performed long and arduous works, he has twice recorded Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum, one of the longest and most difficult works ever written for the piano...
- Kenneth MontgomeryKenneth MontgomeryKenneth Montgomery OBE is a British conductor, the only child of Lily and Tom Montgomery. His upbringing was in Wandsworth Parade and he attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. His musical studies were at the Royal College of Music...
- Martijn PaddingMartijn PaddingMartijn Padding is a Dutch composer. Taught by Louis Andriessen , Geert van Keulen and Fania Chapiro . He also studied sonology at the University of Utrecht. He is a teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.-References:*-External links:**...
- Hein Van de GeynHein Van de GeynHein Van de Geyn is a jazz bassist, composer and band leader from the Netherlands. He is a critically acclaimed artist and performer, as both as a sideman and solo. Van de Geyn won a North Sea Jazz award in 1998. He was also voted "Best European Acoustic Bass Player" in this year by a referendum...
- Eric VloeimansEric VloeimansEric Vloeimans is a Dutch jazz trumpeter.Vloeimans initially studied classical music at the Rotterdam Academy of Music...