Maarten Altena

Maarten van Altena Regteren ( born January 22, 1943 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer and double bass player.

Life and work

Altena studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam bass ( completion 1968). After 1980 he studied composition with Robert Heppener.

Since 1968 he has played in various music ensembles of classical music and jazz. Apart from the Nederlands Ballet Orkest the jazz groups of Marion Brown, Hans Dulfer and Theo Loevendie and later by Willem Breuker and Burton Greene were. In the early years he played in the Orkest De Volharding and Instant Composers Pool Tentett by Misha Mengelberg. Since the mid- 1970s, he improvised with Derek Bailey, Paul Lovens and in the Vario project by Günter Christmann, later also with Peter Kowald and the North European melody and improvisation orchestra by Sven -Åke Johansson. Addition, however, he also gave solo concerts with improvisations and original compositions. Together with Michel Waisvisz he organized several concert series.

In 1978, Altena his own group, first as a quartet, which was expanded staff in the 1980s and Maarten Altena Ensemble (now MAE ) was renamed and increasingly distant from the Jazz in their performances and performed complex works with improvisation shares. He focused increasingly on composing, but also suggested that other composers have written for the group. In 1997, he stopped to play in his own ensemble, where he worked only as a "musical choreographer ." Since 2005, he writes primarily for other groups.

Works

In addition to numerous compositions for the Maarten Altena Ensemble originated after 1985 also works for other ensembles and musicians such as:

  • First Floor (1989 ) for the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
  • Speaking (1990 ) for the Nieuwe Slagwerkgroep Amsterdam
  • Pitch (1990 ) for the Mondriaan Quartet
  • Stave (1988 ) for the tenor saxophonist Peter van Bergen
  • Toonzucht (1991 ) for the singer Jannie Pranger
  • Puls ( 1993) for the drummer Johan Faber.
  • Secret instructions (1992 ) for the Nederlands Orkest students
  • Code as the music for a film by Henk van der Meulen (1992 )
  • Zijdelings Afgesproken (1996 ) on a text by Frank VandeVeire Maarten Altena Ensemble and for the theater group Discordia
  • Mijlpaal he trilt iets (1998) musical theater to a text by Remco Campert for the theater group Hollandia
  • Album ( 2001) for clarinet David Kweksilber
  • Mouthpiece II for the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
  • The madman (Nietzsche ) (2003 ) for the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
  • Dans Maarten Altena Ensemble and for the dance group Leine & Roebana

Prizes and awards

In 1978 he received the prestigious Wessel Ilcken Prize jointly with Waisvisz.

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