Dutch Composers's video: Michiel Mensingh - Oh I m Sorry Did I BREAK Your Concentration

Michiel Mensingh (1975) Oh, I'm Sorry, Did I BREAK Your Concentration? : voor piano en blokfluitkwartet (2005) Tomoko Mukaiyama, piano Brisk Recorder Quartet Michiel Mensingh is a Dutch composer. He studied composition with Hans Timmermans and Barbara Woof during his study Musictechnology at the HKU Utrecht School of the Arts, faculty of Art, Media & Technology in Hilversum, the Netherlands. As a student he did a work placement with composer Guus Janssen, and in 2001 he graduated with a Master of Arts degree. That same year he won the Matthijs Vermeulen Incentive Prize from the Amsterdam 'Fonds voor de Kunst' for Wicked, which was inspired by drum 'n' bass music and written for recorder quartet QNG. This work has since enjoyed numerous performances in Europe and abroad. In 2006 'Wicked' was selected for the ISCM-CASH Young Composer Award. That same year Mensingh's electronic composition 'A Glitch in the Matrix', composed in collaboration with pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama, was nominated for the prestigious International Gaudeamus Prize and was played during the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2006. Mensingh's musical style can best be described as 'eclectic'. His music is often about music. Specific (style) characteristics of certain musical genres, especially the rhythm of pop- and dance music (like funk, techno-house or drum 'n' bass), are an important source of inspiration for the musical material or it's treatment, -or sometimes even the subject- of his classical compositions. This in combination with the further contemporary character of his work causes his music to often venture on the borderline between popular -and contemporary classical music. This borderline has proved to be a great source of inspiration to him since composing his first pop influenced classical composition, the prize winning work 'Wicked'.