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     André Douw (b.1951) studied piano, music theory and composition at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where Louis Andriessen was his primary composition teacher. In 1979-80 he worked in Tokyo with Toru Takemitsu on a government grant. Throughout the eighties and nineties he received various composition commissions and taught Composition and Music Theory at the Music Academy in Hilversum. In 1995 Douw recieved his Ph.D from the University of Utrecht with the dissertation “The Construction of Order and Direction in Igor Stravinsky’s In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, Canticum Sacrum and Threni”. After 1995 he was teacher of Music Theory with a specialisation in New Music at the Amsterdam Conservatory, as well as chair of the Composition Department from 1998 to 2005. He retired in the summer of 2016.

     Contact : adouw@xs4all.nl

     Séance - Circumscribing the Open: Cage and Pousseur 9.A.1 : Silence Reconstructed: John Cage's 4'33

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