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HARP IN A LANDSCAPE (2024)
for harp & piano (sheet music on request)


"The contemplative piano sounds provide warmth and consolation to a dry and barren landscape where the lonely harp cries: 'hear me, see me, name me !"


premiere (2021) @ Power Sound Studio, Amsterdam








CELL'ARPA (2023)
4 pieces for harp & cello (sheet music on request)


WONDERING WHY
A BIRD CAME FLYING
JUST PASSING BY
I FEEL DIFFERENT



As a present for Anne Vanschothorst the Romanian duo CELL'ARPA ft. Roxana Moisanu - harp & Mladen Spasinovici - cello, made an arrangement for their instruments of the original harp solos. / The duets are available for other artists to perform in mutual agreement with the composer and the arrangers.


premiere (2020) @ NPO KLASSIEK 
compositions performed by Cell'Arpa during a radio interview with AV and Lex Bohlmeijer.

TAKE ME TAKE ME WITH YOU  (2021)
spoken word project based on the poems by Antjie Krog & complementary texts based on the news - for voice, organ, piano, harp, bass, prc, 52 mins. 

PERFORMANCE SCORE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE      AV composes and records music and she works with 47strings and multi-media.                  The audio can be licensed, and altered into arranged (from solo to orchestra) or transcribed sheet music. 

  
program note
"Het gaat over het verlangen naar aanraking en connectie, de behoefte om ergens bij te horen, te weten waar je vandaan komt, dat je wordt gezien, gehoord en genoemd. Het gaat wat mij betreft over bestaansrecht. - Door de tijdloze poëzie van Antjie Krog in gesprek te laten gaan met de meest recente nieuwsberichten, en de universele taal van muziek maken de uitvoerende musici een krachtig statement en zal de uitvoering altijd urgent en relevant zijn."



text, voice
SUCH A CHALLENGE
(organ solo, or hrp/piano + prc), 8 mins

WANDERING
solo piano or solo harp, 4 mins

TAKE ME TAKE ME WITH YOU  
(Grond, Land van Genade en Verdriet)
- harp/organ. bass & voice 12 mins.


text, voice
HEAR ME SEE ME NAME ME 
harp & bass, fx, 9 mins

text,voice
WHEN WE WERE TREES
(harp, bass, prc), 4 mins

OUR FRAGILE FUTURE 
(Credo, Broze Aarde)
voice, harp & bass, 4 mins


text, voice
TERRA INCOGNITA
(duet for organ & harp), 8 mins

SHE DREAMT AN EXCEPTIONAL LIFE
harp/piano solo, bass fx, 5 mins

THE TIDE TURNED
harp/piano solo, or in duet with bass fx, prc  4 mins


premiere @ The Centre for the Less Good Idea - South Africa - season 7
Collaboration is central to Still Life. The silent video works and installation elements find themselves in conversation with landscape music composer Anne Vanschothorst’s spoken word project klip lied snaar: voordrag van gedigte en harpmusiek, a collaborative compositional project commissioned by Bronwyn Lace in response to the poetry and voice of Antjie Krog.

Still Life is an installation and revised version of 'Take Me Take Me With You'.







UTOPIA (2020)
for piano solo & soundscape (sheet music on request)


"We see hopeful initiatives everywhere if we look closely around us. And we hear more and more people asking for a sustainable, social and inclusive society. Now is the time to turn the tide." - Joke J. Hermsen


1. weemoed
2. she dreamt an exceptional life
3. what on earth
4. beyond the horizon
5. the tide turned



premiere @ NPO KLASSIEK
compositions performed by Jeroen van Vliet, piano & Maarten Vos, soundscapes







THE EMPRESS  (2019)
for harp & string quartet (sheet music on request)


premiere @ home studio Myrthe van de Weetering
composition performed by Sari van Brug, harp & Sonder Quartet  



NB
In the mean time the composition received, after attending the rehearsals and listening to the recordings in the studio a few adjustments to improve the fun and play :) ... one learns the most from experience!

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