Siemon Edward Top is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans

Peter-Jan Wagemans

Peter-Jan Wagemans is a Dutch composer.Wagemans studied organ , composition with Jan van Vlijmen and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. After his studies he also worked with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.According to Wagemans' philosophy, music is shaped in the observation of the...

 at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Klaas de Vries

Klaas de Vries (composer)

Klaas de Vries is a Dutch composer. De Vries teaches composition at the conservatory of Rotterdam and can be described as influential in the Dutch musical life.-Biography:...

. After his graduation he studied music theory and analysis at King's College

King's College London

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 in London

London

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During the Dutch Music Days of 2004 he won the Henriëtte Bosmans

Henriëtte Bosmans

Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer.Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Henri Bosmans, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the pianist Sara Benedicts, piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her father died when she was 6 months old...

 Prize for his orchestra work Marble Sparks. He also won the 2003 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award

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 at the University of Illinois for his String Quartet Nr. 1.

Most of his music has been published by Donemus

Donemus

Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....

 in Amsterdam.

Selected works

• Stillpoint (1995)
• Overwhelming Blankness of the Ultimate Meaninglessness of Tragedy (1996)
• String Quartet Nr. 1 (1998)
• Silk Execution (1999)
• Symphony Gouden Draak (2000)
• Sonate for violin and piano (2001)
• Piano Trio "en weende hij bitter" (Dutch: And He Wept Bitterly) (2001)
• String Quartet Nr. 2 "Das Lied der Schwermuth" (2002)
• Most Beautiful Bird of Paradise (2003)
• Marble Sparks (2004)
• 34 - Concerto for electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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   and wind orchestra (2006)
• Jimmy (2007)
• Concerto for violin and two orchestras (2007)

Honors and awards

• 1999 - Composition Prize, Rotterdam Conservatoire
• 2003 - Martirano Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2004 - Bosmans Prize, Netherlands Music Days, Utrecht
• 2006 - Atahualpa Award, National University of Lanús
  National University of Lanús
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  , Buenos Aires
• 2007 - New Millennium Award, Birmingham Conservatoire
• 2008 - Toonzetters

External links

• Website Edward Top
• Edward Top at Donemus
  Donemus
  Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....
  
  
• Article on Top at Donemus