Johan De Meij

Johan De Meij was knowledgeable on the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, as students of band conducting as well as the trombone. He obtained a popularity after graduation as an experienced arranger of both well-known and traditional music, nonetheless it was his are a composer that brought him his widest reputation, from 1988 along with his Symphony No. 1 “GOD, THE FATHER of the Bands”, created for symphonic music group and motivated by god, the father of the Bands literary trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien. Initial performed in Brussels on March 15, 1988, it afterwards won the initial award, from among 143 entries, in the Sudler International Music group Structure Competition in Chicago in 1989, and the next year was honored a grant through the Dutch Composers Finance. As you of a comparatively handful of significant music works motivated by god, the father of the Bands literary trilogy, the piece quickly attained a pursuing beyond the limitations of the traditional music viewers. De Meij’s following few works had been smaller in size, like the symphonic poem Loch Ness, created for the International Celebration in Uster, Switzerland, and Pentagram, commissioned with the Frysk Fanfare Celebration in 1990. He came back towards the symphonic idiom in the first 1990’s along with his Symphony No. 2 “NY” (A FRESH York Symphony), that was commissioned and premiered by america Air Power Band in Washington, D.C. His latest compositions are the T-Bone Concerto for single trombone and blowing wind orchestra, as well as the small suite Madurodam. Like a performer, De Meij spent fourteen years as an associate from the Dutch Brass Sextet, and takes on both trombone and euphonium in the Amsterdam Blowing wind Orchestra. He in addition has been a visitor conductor of his personal works-of that your two symphonies will be the most common and broadly recorded-in america, Japan, western European countries, and SOUTH USA.