Ivo van Emmerik

Ivo van Emmerik (born 1961 in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a Dutch composer. Ivo van Emmerik lives and works in Zwolle, where he teaches twentieth-century music at the Arnhem/Zwolle School of Music (ArteZ Institute of the Arts). He studied composition with Robert Heppener at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and Brian Ferneyhough at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He attended summer courses in Middelburg given by Morton Feldman and John Cage that were of great importance to his musical development. In 1989 he completed, with honors, his studies in The Hague. Since then, his work has been performed regularly in the Netherlands as well as in other European countries (such as Germany, Russia, Italy). He wrote for such ensembles and soloists as the Nieuw Ensemble, orchestra ‘de ereprijs’, Percussiongroup The Hague, Trio Dolce, pianist Anthony de Mare and Ensemble Kontext Basel. His composition Thought for three soloists and orchestra (1990), written for the Residentie Orkest, was premiered during the 1991 Holland Festival by Het Trio (Harry Sparnaay, Harrie Starreveld and René Eckhardt) as soloists, Hans Vonk and Alexandru Lascae conducting. A close association with the Ives