Caroline Ansink is a Dutch musician, music educator and composer

Composer

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Biography

Ansink studied music at Utrechts Conservatorium, flute with Abbie de Quant

Abbie de Quant

Abbie de Quant is a renowned Dutch flautist. She teaches at the music academies of Amsterdam and Utrecht and has her own bi-annual concert series at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam....

 and composition with Joep Straesser. After completing her studies with Docerend Musicus (1985) and Uitvoerend Musicus (1986) degrees, Ansink worked as a flutist with the Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...

 Orchestra in Cologne

Cologne

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 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, broadcast by Dutch television NOS.

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

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