Rolf KNAP, born in Amsterdam, October 17th 1937 Dutch nationality Adress: c/o SMO Ravenstraat 18 1697 KN Schellinkhout The NetherlandsStudies: Professional training at the Haarlem Musical Society for the Furtherance of the Art of Music and at the Amsterdam Conservatory, with Haakon Stotijn and Cees van der Kraan (oboe, oboe d'amore, oboe da caccia), with Jo Vincent (ensemble). Theory of music, instrumentation, conduction and composition with Karel Mengelberg. Piano with Charles van der Heijden and Lo Vincent. Courses in sonology and in electronic music at the Laboratory of Sonology of the Utrecht University and in electro-instrumental music at the Amsterdam STEIM-Studio. Career: Free-lance oboist, major stage and studio work. Teacher at several Schools of Music and a Conservatory. Co-founder Wageningen Music School. Conductor and choir master in amateur music sector. Originator and conductor Haarlem Chamber Orchestra and Project collective-8. First prize in Youth & Music - Competition for composers. Started a foundation for composers' rights, of which the aim is to create living and working accommodations for composers, in little old churches. Secretary of the trade panel composers of the Dutch Musicians Union (SMO/NTV). Co-originator of the Dutch Skryabin Society, established in the European Year of Music (1985). Works: Orchestration, of R.A. Schumann's 3 Romancen for oboe and piano to oboe and small orchestra (1121 2000 vl, vl, vla, vlc, db, 1961). In Memoriam Ger Willems, for two orchestras, carpenter tools, declamation and electronics (1970). Le Couple(t), for voice, piano and electronics (1971). Dilemmaniana, for declamation, cello and electronics (1974). Zelomaniana, for oboe and piano (1974). Songs of deaf-mutes, for soprano, choir and symphonic orchestra (1974). Harmonic reflections, for piano solo (1975-1989). The modeller, for soprano and piano (1978). Ode to Joyce, for flute solo (1981). Cornologica, for french horn, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass (1981). Publications: An argument for a social settlement for professional composers (1979). Labour throes and bad birth in building new Concert halls and Opera houses (1986). From Skryabin, a regular column in the Skryabin Bulletin of the Skryabin Society. A research rapport on the subjects of audio physiology and sound physics is in preparation. |