Biography

Her compositional oeuvre includes works for solo piano, voice with piano accompaniment, choir, chamber music and orchestra. She was the winner of the second Vic Nees Composition Competition 2023 (conservatory category) with ‘Le Secret’, a work for women’s choir and piano.  Among others, the Catalan pianist Carol Ruiz performed her piano piece ‘Perpétuel’; in 2022 and ‘Canción de cuna in 2019. The ‘Orkest van Het Groene Hart’ (NL), performed her commissioned work ‘1672’ and in 1996, her chamber opera ‘The Bridge’ was shortlisted for the Stephen Oliver Prize. That same year, her work ‘Juliet’ for women’s choir and piano was performed at the women's choir festival ‘Vrouwen-stemmen’ in Etten (NL). She studied piano at the Arnhem Conservatory and took composition lessons with Andries van Rossem and Maarten Van Ingelghem. She is currently continuing her composition studies at the conservatory of Antwerpen with Bram Van Camp en Steven Prengels (BE) and teaches composition at the Art Centre ‘Het Klooster’ in Woerden (NL). 

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Transformations

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José Retra

Flute solo

Dolce

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A modern work for piano solo

Perpétuel

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Contemporary piece for piano solo

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