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A brief overview of my background, past and current activities

Art, acting and didactic lessons:

1968-1972   Pianolessons Nora Rijkers. 1981-1983 Hans Spruit, 1989-1995 Edgard Vreuls, 1993-1994 Rutger van Leyden.
1975-1983   Drawing/ Art lessons with the painter Rinus Duin, Abcoude. 
Art-Academy Utrecht: Monumental-Art and Architecture.  Rijks-Academie of Amsterdam: Free Arts. 
1983-1986   Member of the 'Actorsstudio'Amsterdam.                                                    
1990-1991   HBO.J (Socialpedagogy) propedeutic exams.

Vocal education from 1982-2008:
Studied singing with Simon Schouten,  Paul Hameleers, Marianne Kweksilber, Hilary Reynolds, Jhanavi Jhayaprakash, Henrike Hendrikson, 
Wieke Ubels,  'Neue vocalsolisten Stuttgart',  Lucia Meeuwsen. 

General musical education:
1989-2003   Music Institute Edgard Vreuls (MIEV) Courses with E. Vreuls, musicologist and pianist. 
Composition  History of music, analysis, piano, conducting, didactics. 
State-exams: piano, music analysis, history of music, vocal instruction didactics.
2001-2007   'Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques' (CMtNWT)  'Reading-ensemble and composition', 
at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.(CvA) Teachers: Jos Zwaanenburg, NedMcGowan,  Rafael Reina, Jahnavi Jhayaprakash.and B.C. Manjunath.
2003-2008   Compositionstudy with the composers: Cecilia Arditto,  Daan Manneke, Fabio Nieder en Louis Andriessen, Richard Ayres.

Awarded 'Composition prize Young IKF '05
2005     Stroomt water  s.a.t.b.  Joke Kegel music.  Published by Donemus, also the English version Flow water 
Performed in the Walpurgis Basiliek in Arnhem by  Choir of New Music. Conductor: René Nieuwint, sopranos: 
Mieke ten Have en Ilse van de Kasteelen, Alt: Machteld van der Putte; Tenors: Richard Prada and René Nieuwint  
Basses: Johan Lippens and Bas Kuijlenburg.

List of Works

Solos
Clouds of Sound nr. I, 2010, ca. 9.30'. for carillon. Published in the GeNeCo-carillon album.

Love After Love (Melo-chromatic poetry) 2010 , 7.07 for solo organ.

Inventions for bassoon  2008, 8''.  
Solo for James Aylward.  Premiered in '09.  

Etude for Tubular-bells  2001,  2'. 



Duos

Ebb flow ebb for Duo Contre-Vent for two basset recorders, ca. 8',  2011.

The Sedimentations of my Thoughts, 2010-2011, 11'.
For percussion (marimba, woodblock, metal bar) and organ, dedicated to Tatiana Koleva and Jan Hage.

Seven haikus, 2010, 17'. For piano and Guitar. Poetry and music Joke Kegel.
Named: Echo, Gift, Three colours, Transformed, Open, Early bird, Singing Haiku. 

Imaginary City  2010, 8'. Premiered in '10, Amsterdam.  
For the Fokker organ, with 31-tones in an octave for Ere Lievonen,
and the Chinese violin Erhu for Fang Weiling. 
 
Love after love 2010, 7.40'.
For organ, voice with soft percussion

L'intenzione cordiale  2007, 9.55'.
Prepared piano and soprano. Premiered '08 in A'dam.
Dedicated to Mauricio Kagel.(1931-2008) Cesare Pavese poetry.

De bereidster van lucht  2004, 5'.
piano and baritone; Henk van der Waal poetry. 

La piccola fata del flauto  2003, 12'.
soprano-voice and tape; Elena Carobbio poetry.

Endings  1998, 5'.
soprano-voice and bes-clarinet; Derek Walcott poetry.

Love After Love  1998, 5' and revised in 2010 for Duo Phoenix, 6.35'.
soprano-voice and b-flat-clarinet; Derek Walcott poetry.

Springpoem  1999, 5'.
soprano-voice and bes-clarinet. Godfried Bomans poetry.

We grow accustomed to the dark  2000, 5'.
Piano and soprano-voice. Emily Dickinson poetry.

Stroomt water  2000  5' 
 Soprano and piano. Unknown poet. 

Mode 1 & 2 for violin and violoncello  2001, 3'. 

Kastanjebruine anemonen in je stugge tuin   2001, 3'.
Soprano-voice and piano; Carlos Drumond de Andrade poetry.

Trios
Air for aXolot  2008, 9'.
Trio for two peatzold rec. and tenor-rec. Text: Morgenstern. Premiered '09 in Amsterdam.

Hybrid harmonic world  2010, 14'.
For Trio Scordatura.

You, wind of March  in two parts 2008,  7' and 9'.
Trio piano, clarinet and F-horn.  Premiered '08 in Amsterdam. 
You, wind of March in two parts  2009,   7' and 9'
Trio piano, violin and cello. Premiered '09 in Amsterdam. 
Honerable mention for the  'Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize competition of the IAWM.'

Love after Love  2009,  7'. 
For trio Scordatura. Premiered december '09 inAmsterdam.  
Love After Love 2003, 6'. 
flute soprano-voice and solkattu-percussion. Derek Walcott poetry.

L'Intenzione cordiale  2007, 9.55'.
Bassoon soprano and percussion: marimba, octo-toms, cowbells
and woodblocks.  Premiered '07 in Adam. Cesare Pavese poetry.

Thakagenesis  2005, 8.40'.
Sopr., rec., sax., bamboo-perc. 7'. Premiered '05 in Amsterdam.
Thakagenesis  2008-2009. 8.40'.
Trio: Sopr. Rec. Sax, bamboo-perc.
With short textfragments of Samuel Beckett and Karlheinz Stockhausen and solkathu.  Premiered '09:
Klangwerkstatt Festival Für neue Musik, Berlin.

 
Quartets (plus soloist)  
Into and around the world  2008, 6.15'.
Schlagquartett Köln. 
   
Inventions of Light for a Percussion Quintet  2011, 12'.
Percussionist 1 -  maracas, trainwhistle, 7 Tubular bells
Percussionist 2 -  4 timpani  
Percussionist 3 -  Vibraphone, 6 woodblocks, 2 bongos, 1 conga 
Percussionist 4 -  Marimba 1, 10 Tubularbells and 3 suspended cymbales.
Percussionist 5 -  Marimba 2, xilophone.

La persistance de la memoire  2004, 8'.  
Alto-flute, 2 guitars, violoncello.

Intraference  2006, 7'.
(study) Violin, viola, violoncello and percussion. 

Magma and Meander  in two parts  2007, 15'.
(study) Stringquartet.





Choir
Stroomt water  2005,  6'. 
SATB. Composition prize IKF '05. Premiered '05.
Flow water  2006, 6'. 
SATB. English and Dutch version published by Donemus.

Vieni  SSAATTBB  2011 3'

Ensemble works
Early bird, 2011,  9'
three male voices Tenor, Bariton, Bass and ensemble: Alt sax, electric guitar, percussion, piano, accordeon, violon, cello.

The Sedimentations 2010-2011, 12.30'
For Solo viola and marimba and small ensemble: Flutes, b-flat-clarinet, violin, viola (or violin II) and cello.

Sedimentations, 2011, 14'
For Solo viola and the ensemble Proxima Centauri: for Flutes, saxophone, percussion, and piano.

Nine inventions , for the New ensemble   2009, 10'.
Oboe, Bb-clarinet, timpani, bongos/ conga, small percussion, celesta, mandoline, guitar, violin, viola and cello. 

Who is counting on a pure symmetric triad within a perfect fourth?  2004, 10.10'.
 Fl., bas.-cl., bsn., tp., sax., timp. and tub.-bells. Premiered '04 in Amsterdam. live-CD recording of: 
Van een leien dak 2006 in coöperation with the Artist Gerbrig Seidel. A continuous slade-show of painted slades and the 10.10'. 
Who is counting on a pure symmetric triad within a perfect fourth? 
Ebb Flow Ebb  2005.  6 Min.  CD (fl., gtr., b-cl., perc. ) and live soprano-voice. 

Braindrops on meandering magma  2007, 6'. 
(study)  Fl., ob., cl., bsn., hn., vl.I & II, vla.,cl., d-bass. 

You, wind of March  in 3 parts  2008 
Theaterwork, with stageplan. (work in progress) 
Ensemble Alto-flute or trumpet, bass-clarinet or trombone, piano, violin and violoncello.    
Percussionist 1: 5 timpani,  4 crotales, 
Percussionist 2: vibraphone, 6 woodblocks, 2 bongo-drums.
Six solo singers  Soprano, mezzo soprano, counter tenor, tenor, baritone, bass.
Cesare Pavese poetry. Chamber-ensemble in three parts. 28.56 min.   
Part I , Trio: 7'.  Part II : 13.24'. Part III , 9'. Apotheosis: Quartet and theatre of singers and ensemble



Multimedia
Incorporea  2006, 30'.
Multimedia: Perc., cl., vla, gtr., sopr., solo dans and videofragments. Premiered '06 in A'dam. 

Bare feet, breath and bare hands  2009, 11'.  
Interdisciplinair project, for bass-clarinet and video.  
Ainhoa Miranda bassclarinet. Video made and played by Joke Kegel.

Composer for the foundation Plan B 2010. Concert II: Music as light.
Clouds of Sound no. II.  4' prepared piano and animationvideo MandelaBoogieWoogie of Jorge Lumbreras.

Concert III Music as objects: tapes and songs.
Clouds of Sound no. III. 3.54', 2010.  Installation for tapes/CD and woman-voice with object.

Pequeño universo, 4', 2010. Animation-DVD created by Jorge E. Lumbreras, 
with an excerpt of Thakagenesis created by Joke Kegel.

Orchestral works
Six movements, maybe ten: 2010 chamber orchestra, 12'.
1 fl., 1 ob, 1 bass-cl., 1 bsn, 1 trp, 1 horn, 1 trb. perc., celesta and 4, 4, 2, 2, 1 strings 

Ten Movements Within Six  2010, 14'
Symphony orchestra: 2 fl., 2 ob.,2 cl., 1 Bass-cl., 1 bsn, 2 trp., 2 hn., 2 trb. Timp., 3 perc.,  
piano, Strings 8 Vln. I, 8 vln  II, 6 Vla, 4 Vcl., 2 Cb.  

Ten Movements Within Six  2010, 14'. 
Revision with Timpani and percussion instruments for 2  percussionists, two bassoons and no bas-clarinet.
Symphony orchestra: 2 fl., 2 ob.,2 cl.,  2 bsn, 2 trp., 2 hn., 2 trb. Timp., 2 perc., piano. 
Strings 8-12 Vln. I, 10-8 vln  II, 8-6 Vla, 6-4 Vcl., 4-2 Cb.  

                                                     

Compositions  of Joke Kegel:
Air for aXalot  Ruth Dyson tenorrecorder; Anna Stegmann great-bassrecorder in c; 
Kim Josephine Bode contra-bassrecorder in F,  8.30 minutes  
Inventions  for Bassoon  for James Aylward. 8 minutes.
Bare feet, breath and bare hands  Interaction between a Ainhoa Miranda Gimenez Bass-clarinet playing live in public and the video.    
You, wind of March  for piano trio. Ere Lievonen piano; Veronika Manova Violin; Stephanie Hunt violoncello.
Other possible composers: Joji Yuasa, Roger Smalley, Paul van Leenhout, Mischa Käser, Christopher Tye and Timuçin Sahin. 

2009   Thakagenesis  programmed during the Klangwerkstatt in Berlin november 7. programmer: Silvia Linz, 
Ten.-recorder, alto-saxophone, soprano-voice. Music: Joke Kegel.
All playing three bamboos with a bamboo-beater. See photo at the top. 
Text: Solkatthu and short fragments of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Samuel Beckett. 

"Im Nebel" ,  by  Ere Lievonen. Piano and voice. 4'.
"Trois melodies" , Les Anges, Elegie, Silvie.  by  Érik Satie. Piano and voice. 7'.
"Für Elise"  by Ere Lievonen. Piano. 2' 
"Appel interstellaire"  (from Des Canyons aux étoiles) by Olivier Messiaen. Solo horn. 5'.
" Pastorale"   and " The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"  by  Igor Strawinski. 6'.

2007     Music with Art in Redlight, during the Art exposition "Art Moves" 
L' Intenzione cordiale  Joke Kegel music, soprano and conductor;
Michel Mootz  marimba, octo-bans, cowbells; James Aylward bassoon. 
Berio sequenza for Voice, Bach suite for Bassoon, and solo for marimba.

2006    Music with Art in Redlight, concert sunday afternoon during the exposition  "Identity "  
Incorporea   Joke Kegel music, soprano; Sophie Kienhuis dance; Jane Lang
conductor; Pam Feytes arts; Kim Verhoeven video; Kymia Kermani clarinet;
Mani Vasquez Lopez congas/bongas woodblocks and vibraphone; Bart Rosinga  guitar; Maria Moros viola. 

2005    Music with Art in Redlight concert sunday afternoon during the exposition engaged creativity "
Bird fragments nr.2', Toshio Hosokawa music. Naomi sato: sho. 
solitude' Joji Yuasi music.Ainhoa miranda bass clarinet.
So full of shapes is fancy'  Pascal Dusapin music; Shakespeare poetry. 
Ainhoa Miranda bass-clarinet; Joke Kegel soprano.    
Sweet'  Franco Donatoni, Ann-Katrin Seifert reaissance recorder.
Thakagenesis   Joke Kegel music, soprano; Ann-Katrin Seifert  tenor-recorder; 
Naomi Sato alt saxophone;  all musicians are playing bamboos.

Other Concerts and meetings.
2008    De LuisterSalon 2008  Korzo5 HOOG The Hage.Saterday 13 december 2008 from 12.00-18.00.
You, wind of March will be heard as CD,  a recording of the live concert in the Old church of Amsterdam.
Performers: Ere Lievonen piano, Hilke Rozema horn, Ainhoa Miranda Gimenez altclarinet.

2008    Workshop, concert  "Stimmung, of Karlheinz Stockhausen" 
with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart in Royaumont in France. 10-14 november.

2007     Workshop "théâtre Musical de Salvatore Sciarrino" with the Neue Vocalsolisten from Stuttgart
16 - 22 december  in Royaumont of France. Some pieces in the concert: Perseo e Andromeda (1990) Salvatore Sciarrino
Tre canti senza pietre (1999) Salvatore Scarrino.  A-Ronne (1974) of Luciano Berio.

2007     Jury with Sander Germanus and Thomas Jonker for the' Kunstbende', 
Platform for young composers.  Final presentation in Vredenburg in Utrecht.

2006    Preparing a Karnaticlab internet radio program Other Music Other Rooms. with Cecilia Arditto and Iñigo Giner. 
1: Repetition.  Composers: Satie, Stockhausen, Huber, Feldman and Spahlinge
2: Masters of humor. Composers: Mozart, Berberian/Beatles, Kusnir, Janequin.

2006    Brindis'  Eduardo Kusnir music. 'Música Argentina',  'La metafísica del humor'.
Cecilia Arditto curator/composer. Muziekgebouw aan het IJ,  Amsterdam.
Arnold Marinissen percussion; Guy Livingston piano; Ned Mc Gowan flute; John Eddison violoncello; 
Jeroen Schippers trompet; Pablo Fontdevila dance; Stephie Butrich and Joke Kegel laughers. 

2006    Van een Leien Dak  Museum Night  in the Oude kerk  (Old Church)  of Amsterdam. 
Cooperation with Artist Gerbrig Seidel.  A continuous slide-show of painted slades and two pieces of Joke Kegel on CD:
Who is counting on a pure symmetric triad within a perfect fourth?
Ebb Flow Ebb  followed by a solo performance of Joke Kegel: 'Sequenza III for voice' of Luciano Berio.                                            

2006    Incorporea Joke Kegel music, soprano; Sophie Kienhuis dance; Jane Lang
conductor; Pam Feytes arts; Kim Verhoeven video; Kymia Kermani clarinet;
Mani Vasquez Lopez congas/bongas woodblocks and vibraphone; Bart Rosinga  guitar;
Maria Moros viola. Performances: Phillip Morris hall Theatreschool, 
Open-air theatre Vondelpark Amsterdam and the Oude kerk (Old church) of Amsterdam'.
Subsidized by the " Practicum Generale Fonds". 

2004    De bereidster van lucht  Otto van den Aardweg bariton; Louis Levelt piano;
Henk van der waal poetry; CD-recording.

2004     Who is counting on a pure symmetric triad within a perfect fourth?  10.10 min.
Flute, alto-saxophone, trumpet, bassoon, bass-clarinet, timpani, vibraphone and tubular bells. Joke Kegel music.  A research on microtonality and rhythm. Jane Lang conductor; Wobbe Vermeulen flute,  Naomi Sato soprano saxophone, Anne Froizhuber bassoon, Ainhoa Miranda bass-clarinet, Kristin Hetland trumpet; Noelia Arco Ramirez  Tubular-bells, vibraphone, Mani Vasquez Lopez Timpani. CD-recording. See samples.

2003    'Diario Polacco 2, Quando stanno morendo  Luigi Nono-project. Venice, Italy. André Richard conductor.

2003    Daughter of the Wizard wanders through the map of Four Neighbourhoods, Looking for her personal Turtle. 
Cecilia Arditto music. YO!Festival ' Kloppend Herz' in Utrecht; Master exam CvA. Daughter of the wizzard: Joke Kegel
soprano; Choir: Sabine Wuthrich (S), Natalia Calderon (MS),N.Filimonova (A); Esther  Kurtz Oboe; Jasmin Cohen trompet; 
Wiebke Roterberg violoncello. 

Performer in the International Gaudeamus week
2007    And my mind is subject of these bewildered fragments'  Paul Oomen music,
 life electronics; Sarah Kane poetry;   Voices: Kristina Fuchs, Esra Dalfidan, Joke Kegel .
1994    Hollandse Waterlinie  and  Laurina  Hero Wouters music, poetry, computer.
Het Maagdlied   Cees Hiep music; Dario Fo poetry.
Stedelijk museum concerthall, recorded by VPRO-radio. 

Karnaticlab- performances in the Badkuyp, Amsterdam
2010  Love after love  for trio Scordatura. Bob Gilmore keyboard (harpsichord with dynamics)
         Elisabeth Smalt viola, Alfrun Schmid soprano-voice with bamboo-percussion. 
         Poetry Derek Walcott.  
2008  L'Intenzione cordiale sopr-voice and prepared grand piano.
        inspired by the poetry of Cesare Pavese; 'Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi.' 
        Ere Lievonen piano, Joke Kegel soprano and composer.
2007 Van een leien dak  
        Cooperation with Gerbrig Seidel. A continuous slide-show of painted slades and the composition 
        of Joke Kegel Who is counting on a pure symmetric triad within a perfect fourth? 
        on CD, followed by a solo performance of Joke Kegel: Sequenza III for voice' of Luciano Berio.
2003 Love After Love  Joke Kegel music, soprano;  Derek Walcott poetry;
      Wobbe Vermeulen flute; Pierluca  Pineroli solkattu.  
                  
  

CMtNWT- productions, Ellingtonhall CvA
2008  You, wind of March  Ere lievonen piano, Manos Venturas Horn, Spela Kolenc saxophone.
2007  L'Intenzione cordiale Joke Kegel music, conductor, soprano, Michel Mootz marimba, 
        octotoms, cowbells; James Aylward bassoon. Final exam for composition CMtNWT
2006 Trio. La copula con un cuerpo muerto  Rafael Reina music;  L.M. Panero poetry; 
         Joke Kegel soprano; Carlos  Galves  bass-clarinet; Enric Monfort Barbera percussion.  
         Final exam of the ' reading ensemble'.
2005  Thakagenesis  Joke Kegel music, soprano; Ann-Katrin Seifert  tenor recorder,
         Naomi Sato alto saxophone ; all musicians play bamboos.
2004  So full of shapes is fancy  Pascal Dusapin music; Shakespeare poetry; 
         Joke kegel soprano, Ainhoa Miranda bass-clarinet.
2003  Casi cerca  Cecilia Arditto music: violin, violoncello, clarinet, piano, soprano.
2002  Sruti & the Beast   Marten van Norden music.

COM - concerts in the  Tamboer and Fijnhouttheatre, Amsterdam   
2001  The idea   Riek Westerhof music, piano; Joke Kegel soprano; Margaret Wertheim proza. '
          We grow accustomed to the dark  Joke Kegel music and soprano; Riek Westerhof piano; Emily Dickinson poetry. 
2000  Springpoem  Joke Kegel music and soprano; Henry Korthout bes-clarinet. Godfried Bomans poetry.
            Love After Love  Improvisation by Joke voice and Bas Kegel african percusion; Derek Walcott poetry.
1999  Puur  (St. Ives), Cees Hiep music, piano and tape; Wieke Ubels, Joke Kegel sopranos.
         Hollandse waterlinie.'  Hero Wouters music  and computer, Joke Kegel soprano.
1998  Endings and  Love After Love Joke Kegel music and soprano; Anneke Klein bes-clarinet; Derek Walcott poetry.
        Chameleo' Cees Hiep music; Laurens Windig Libretto. Soprano in the Musical 
         of new music for four soloists. Concert in the English Church, Amsterdam. CD-recording..