biography (continued 1)

compositions

Since 1993 Richard Rijnvos concentrates on the realisation of compositions that are part of larger series. The work Stanza, for instance, exists in a diatonic, chromatic and microtonal version. Between 1995 and 2000 he created the eighty-minute cycle Block Beuys. Modelled on the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt collection with the same name, which consists of objects by the German visual artist Joseph Beuys, he dedicated a piece of music to each of its seven rooms. Late 2008 Richard Rijnvos completed Uptown|Downtown, an urban panorama in six "movements". This series – thought of as an evening-long dance production about city life in Manhattan – include the orchestral works Times Square Dance, Washington Square Dance and Union Square Dance, as well as Grand Central Dance, Central Dance in the Park and 'cross Broadway for piano and chamber orchestra. (These last three compositions can be combined in a concert performance, thus forming a piano concerto entitled NYConcerto). La Serenissima is the title of a series of works dealing with "the city of Venice and her shadows". Between the outer movements (acqua alta and mappamondo) various works will follow. In 2007 Richard Rijnvos started a new series called Riflessi, which consists exclusively of companion pieces. Each Riflesso explores the same exceptional scoring of an existing classic by a composer from the past. In May 2010 his song cycle Die Kammersaengerin was premiered in a fully staged performance.