Jacob Ter Veldhuis (Jacob TV)

Profile

Dutch 'avant pop' composer JacobTV (Jacob Ter Veldhuis, 1951) started as a rock musician, then studied composition and electronic music and was awarded the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He is now one of the most performed European composers,  writing an emotionally direct kind of music,in which his classical side is a lush combination of post minimalism and romanticism, and while he was working on integrating rock, jazz, and pop culture into his music from one side, he was turning away from high modernism on the other. Recently he has been accused of musical terrorism, and the Wall Street Journal wrote that his newest work 'makes many a hip-hop artist look sedate'. JacobTV was performed by The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tokyo City Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Russian State Academy, the Düsseldorf Symfoniker, the Metropole Orchestra, and by soloists such as Branford Marsalis, James Galway, Evelyn Glennie, Ronald Brautigam, Arno Bornkamp, and ensembles like Het Nederlands Kamerkoor, Ethel, Fulcrumpoint, E.A.R. Unit, Aurelia-, Prism- and New Century Quartet, Safri Duo, Calefax, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and several others.

About works / performance

I have written chamber music, orchestral music, music for ballet, film, and so called boombox music.( see below) I write a lot of work in collaboration with visual artists. Recent the multi media productions are the video oratorio Paradiso, the jazz suite Heartbreakers, the choir piece Mountain Top, Cities change the Songs of Birds, and many other smaller pieces, like Grab it!, Jesus is coming, etcera. I am now working on a large scale video opera calle THE NEWS.