Caroline Ansink
Caroline Ansink (born 8 August 1959 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch musician, music educator and composer.
Biography[]
Ansink studied music at Utrechts Conservatorium, flute with Abbie de Quant and composition with . After completing her studies with Docerend Musicus (1985) and Uitvoerend Musicus (1986) degrees, Ansink worked as a flutist with the Clara Schumann Orchestra in Cologne and a music teacher at the Utrechts Conservatorium.
In 1992 Ansink and composer Catharina van Rennes were subjects of a television documentary I compose as a human being by NOS TV.[1]
Awards and honors[]
- 1989 Composition Prize
- 1985 second prize of DEDOK Mannheim
- 1989 the first prize GEDOK for Pyrrhus for organ (1988), for which she *1988 Cappella Civica award in Trieste
- 1989 third prize of the Association of Hungarian Musicians
- 1990 encouragement prize from the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
- 1990 honorable mention The Washington International Competition
- 1992 Prize from the city of Chard, Great Britain[1]
Works[]
Ansink composes chamber music, orchestral and choir works. Selected works include:
- Shades of Silence for string quartet (1984)
- Pyrrhus for organ (1988)
- SkopÛs piano trio (1989)
- Night and Day (1990)
- Zeitenschrunde (1990)
- Brezze for string quartet (1990)
- Capriccio for Solo Violin
- Over the Moon[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Curriculum". Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ Hinson, Maurice; Roberts, Wesley (2006). The piano in chamber ensemble: an annotated guide. ISBN 0253346967. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
Categories:
- 1959 births
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- Dutch female classical composers
- Dutch classical composers
- Dutch classical musicians
- Dutch music educators
- Living people
- Musicians from Amsterdam
- 21st-century Dutch musicians
- Women music educators
- 20th-century women composers
- 21st-century women composers
- Dutch composer stubs