biography (continued 2)
commissions
Renowned companies and institutions commissioned Richard Rijnvos such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), the Holland Festival, the ZaterdagMatinee concert series, Elision Ensemble (Australia), Dutch Radio, Nieuw Ensemble, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Ives Ensemble and Asko Ensemble (Amsterdam). His work enjoys attention during international concert series and festivals, amongst others with performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Sinfonietta, Apartment House, Ensemble Modern, Das Neue Ensemble, Ensemble KORE, Omnibus Ensemble and many others.
awards
Richard Rijnvos received various awards, among which the 1989 Perspektiefprijs and an honourable mention during the 1991 Prix Italia for his radiophonic production Radio I (on text by Samuel Beckett). In 2000 the City of City of Amsterdam awarded him the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize – the most prestigious award for composers from the Netherlands – for Times Square Dance. In August 2008 an international jury voted NYConcerto “the best composition premiered in the Netherlands in the year before”, and it was subsequently awarded the Buma Toonzetters Award. In June 2011 Richard Rijnvos was awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for the second time, on this occasion for the song cycle Die Kammersängerin.
Richard Rijnvos is artistic advisor of the Ives Ensemble of which he was managing director from 1991 until 2000. He regularly conducts his own work as well as other’s. Since October 2009 he is Head of Composition in the Department of Music at Durham University (UK).