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– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

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Born: 21 May 1960 — Rotterdam — The Netherlands

Died:

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Christiaan de Jong (Rotterdam, 1960), is an allround musician with experience in playing all kinds of music, from authentique barroque to tango, from flamenco to contemporary composed and improvised music and jazz.

He composed music for one instrument solo with or without electronics, up to chambermusic, orchestral works and music for big band, dance projects and theatre or his own "animated scores".

He composed for: Trio Sekwenza, Ensemble Barcelona Nova Musica, Christiaan de Jong Ensemble, Duo Daniel Ahlert & Birgit Schwab, Grupo Circulo, Banda Municipal de Barcelona, Duo Matthijs Koene & Stefan Gerritsen, Duo Wiek Hijmans & Anna McMichael, Orkest De Volharding, Barcelona Percussion Group, Harry Sparnaay, Marcel Worms, Sound of Colors Ensemble +Beatrice Voellmy, Ensemble BB, Kaida, Ensamble Rosario Ralph van Raat and Ensemble Areté.

Current projects include pieces for a project with Garth Knox, a project for flute, piano, live electronics + tape, a project mixing borroque, a piece for viola and guitar for Alturas Duo, a project for Cobla Principal d’Amsterdam + electric guitar and a project based on Don Quijote and fairy tales for various ensembles.

As a fluteplayer Christiaan de Jong uses the Eva Kingma system 1/4 tone flute which permits him to play easily microtonal tone music, used in so many "etnic" music cultures, jazz and contemporary western composed music. He plays the barroque tranverse flute both in barroque and contemporary music.

De Jong plays the electric guitar in both jazz and chambermusic settings. The electric guitar can have an almost classical sound but extend to the most extreme heavy metal sounds quitte easily.

He likes to mix improvisational elements and very defined composed parts and often uses electronic backgrounds as well.

He performed concerts playing mainly his own music and improvisation with Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman, Jorrit Dijkstra, Riccardo Massari, Michael Benedik, Michael Svoboda, Luc Houtkamp, Frances Marie Uitti, Wiek Hijmans, Corrado Canonici, J. Mª Balanyà, Ananda Sukarlan, Robert Dick, Harry Sparnaay and many other fine musicians...

He conducted many professional and youth orquestras, involving written music and improvisation.

He founded various ensembles like Trio Sekwenza, Ensemble Barcelona Nova Musica, Christiaan de Jong Ensemble, Intelligent Sound Ensembe and recently Globus Ensemble

He played as a electric guitar soloist with the Banda Municipal de Barcelona, the Dutch group "Insomnio", the Madrid group "Circulo".

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