biography (continued)

commissions
Renowned companies and institutions commissioned Richard Rijnvos such as Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), Holland Festival, Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam), Elision Ensemble (Australia), NOS Dutch Radio and Dutch Wind Ensemble. His work enjoys attention on international festivals and podia in cities as London, Berlin, Paris, Montreal, Melbourne and Chicago, with performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble KORE, Ensemble Resonanz 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 Amsterdam awarded him the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize (the most prestigious award for composers working in the Netherlands) for Times Square Dance. In the summer of 2004 HatHut Records released the CD of the complete cycle Block Beuys, which was nominated for an Edison Classical Award. In 2008 Richard Rijnvos was awarded the Buma Toonzetters Award for NYConcerto.

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.