Netherlands’ most prominent annual musical events. Earlier, on 21 December 2025, Sara won the Composition Competition 2025 at TivoliVredenburg, together with three other young composers. This achievement [...] highlights her exceptional musical talent and creative voice at a national level. In her compelling composition Is It Really Too Much To Ask? , Sara reflects on why we sometimes seem to lose sight of what truly
Composition teacher Robin de Raaff experienced two career highlights this summer: the world premiere of his latest work L’Azur on 27 August at the Lucerne Festival, followed just four days later by the [...] his artistic insights and hands-on experience on the world’s leading stages. Robin de Raaff is a composition teacher at Codarts and an internationally recognized composer whose works are performed worldwide
engaging and compelling experience. With MEGASTRUCTURE the choreographers create an intriguing composition and the choice not to use music is brave and captivating. What is surprising and curious is the
wealth of experience, gained over the past nine years as the head of the Classical, Conducting, and Composition & Music Production departments at the Prins Claus Conservatoire (PCC) – a part of Hanze University
technicians and directors to create their own unique program. This has also resulted in impressive new compositions by Sarah Neutkens, Arjan Linker and Nuno Lobo." Dutch Classical Talent is an initiative of the
attention from the panel concerns diversity within the student population. Although the international composition is appreciated, it is recommended to also attract more Dutch and Rotterdam diversity in cooperation
art, science and society. In the film, a ‘magical’ narrator invites us to look at reality as a composition in which multiple opinions, perspectives, social forces, cultural forces and forces of nature dance
composer and erhu master Zhu Changyao. I received a lot of valuable feedback on how to play his compositions and to see which techniques are being used to play different styles of Southern Chinese music
the study programme Dance in Education at Codarts, where he graduated in 2012. Ege Şahin studied composition with Paul M. van Brugge, René Uijlenhoet and Robin de Raaff. Ege combined his Bachelors in arts
context Research questions Methodologies Format of desirable outcomes in a final portfolio (such as compositions, recordings) Following an assessment process involving a panel of internal and external experts
