The term Rotterdam School is used to refer to a group of

composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and defi ...

related to the city of

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

. What started in the final decade of the twentieth century within a small circle of composition students at the Rotterdam Conservatory with a manifesto by Rotterdam composer

Oscar van Dillen Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (born 25 June 1958 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist. Education Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music (sitar, tabla, vocal) with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tri ...

, has been taken more seriously now in larger musical circles. Many Rotterdam composers have made successful careers in contemporary or theatre music. It is impossible to accommodate all Rotterdam composers together in one kind of style or musical æsthetic. Therefore, one could not really speak of a school in the traditional meaning of the word. The colloquium (called "practicums") at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, led by composition teachers Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries, played an important, unifying role.

Composers

*Thorkell Atlason * Erik de Clerq *

Nuno Corte-Real Nuno can refer to *Nuno (given name) :*Nuno Espírito Santo, football manager :*Nuno Tavares, football player *Nuño (given name) *Nuno felting, a fabric felting technique *'' Nuno'', meaning "ancestor" in Philippine languages, usually in reference ...

* Rocco Havelaar * Bart de Kemp * Hans Koolmees * Astrid Kruisselbrink * Andreas Kunstein * Marcel Minderhoud *

Philemon Mukarno Philemon may refer to: In the Bible * Epistle to Philemon, a book in the New Testament * Philemon (biblical figure), recipient of Saint Paul's Epistle to Philemon Arts and entertainment * Philémon (comics), ''Philémon'' (comics), a Franco-Bel ...

* Florian Magnus Maier * Christina Viola Oorebeek * Joey Roukens *

Felipe Pérez Santiago Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy ...

* Edward Top * Marc Verhoeven * Klaas de Vries * Peter-Jan Wagemans * Juan Felipe Waller *

Evrim Demirel Evrim Demirel (born November 17, 1977) is a Turkish composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers a ...

Dimitris Andrikopoulos Dimitris (Δημήτρης) is the Modern Greek form of the older forms Demetrios, Dimitrios (Δημήτριος, usually Latinized as Demetrius) and may refer to: * Dimitris Arvanitis (born 1980), Greek professional football defender who plays for ...

References

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Rotterdamse School in Theater Lantaren/Venster
at Nieuwsbank
Elektronische muziek in de Rotterdamse School
at Lantaren Venster
Doelenkwartet Rotterdam String Quartets
{{Authority control Music in Rotterdam