Music has always been there for me, as has storytelling and the want to present ideas on a stage.
After graduating jazz upright bass and composition from Codarts, Academy of the Arts in Rotterdam, I studied at the Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Kopenhagen and at the Conservatory in Amsterdam until 2015.
I stayed in Amsterdam and started to write music for orchestras and ensembles. I have worked with, among others, Asko | Schönberg, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the JongMetropole Orchestra. My style leans on contemporary music, but has a lot of influences of classical, jazz and folk music, too.
I always compose based on a theme, narrative or story. I composed a piece based on the Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal (Het Toeslagenschandaal), about humankinds upcoming journey to the planet Mars (MARS:), about a small mouse in a big world (Small World) and an orchestral work for the NTR ZaterdagMatinee about how humankind is the only animal that actively tries to eradicate itself.
In 2023, I won the Rogier van Otterloo Award, and in 2022 the Keep an Eye Production Prize. I am currently represented by Deuss Music Publishing.