Andries van Rossem is trained as an organist, but is mostly active as composer and teacher (at the
Music Theatre course at ArteZ in Arnhem, the Netherlands). For the Day of the Composer, on 21 June 2025, he gave space to the young talent that he of course knows well as a teacher. Arnhem’s city song, for example, was written by one of his students (now a colleague!): Tobias Wenting.
That City Song will be played in this episode, asides music by the Bayaka pygmies, own work by Andries van Rossem, and percussion music by Dolf de Kinkelder.
If you ask the music makers, composers and musicians in our country, what music should everyone really have heard at least once? The entire interview with Andries van Rossem is available in the podcast Music Makers a co-production of the Concertzender and New Music Now.
More about Andries van Rossem on his website.
Picture: (c) Simon van Boxtel on behalf of New Music Now
Playlist
CD Bayaka – The Extraordinary Music Of The Babenzélé Pygmies
Anonymous, field recording: Wedding Song
Ba-Benzélé Pygmies
3’41”
own recording Tobias Wenting
Tobias Wenting: Stadslied Arnhem
Tobias Wenting [piano, vocals]
6’44”
own recording composer
Andries van Rossem: Carillon
Ralph van Raat [piano]
3’14”
own recording composer
Andries van Rossem: Oneliner
Francesca Ajossa [organ]
5’49”
own recording Dolf de Kinkelder
Dolf de Kinkelder: Machine Machine, for 17 percussionists
Percussiongroup Crescendo Zevenaar conducted by John Sonderen
21’32”
own recording Andries van Rossem
Andries van Rossem: Escape
ASKO conducted by Lucas Vis
7’02”
