The term Rotterdam School is used to refer to a group of composers related to the city of Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

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What started in the final decade of the twentieth century within a small circle of composition students at the Rotterdam Conservatory with a manifesto by Rotterdam composer Oscar van Dillen

Oscar van Dillen

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.-Education:Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley,...

, has been taken more seriously now in larger musical circles. Many Rotterdam composers have made successful careers in contemporary or theatre music.

It is impossible to accommodate all Rotterdam composers together in one kind of style or musical æsthetic. Therefore one could not really speak of a school in the traditional meaning of the word.

The colloquie (called "practicums") at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, led by composition teachers 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...

 and 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:...

, played an important, unifying role.

Composers

• Dimitris Andrikopoulos
  Dimitris Andrikopoulos
  Dimitris Andrikopoulos is a Greek-Dutch composer.-External links:** on Donemus, Amsterdam* on Superior School of Arts site, Porto...
  
  
• Thorkell Atlason
• Erik de Clerq
• Nuno Corte-Real
• Oscar van Dillen
  Oscar van Dillen
  Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.-Education:Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley,...
  
  
• Rocco Havelaar
• Bart de Kemp
• Hans Koolmees
• Astrid Kruisselbrink
• Andreas Kunstein
  Andreas Kunstein
  Andreas Kunstein is a composer who was born in Brühl . In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied History and Philosophy in Düsseldorf....
  
  
• Marcel Minderhoud
• Philemon Mukarno
• Florian Magnus Maier
• Christina Viola Oorebeek
• Joey Roukens
  Joey Roukens
  Joey Roukens is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.Roukens studied composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatoire and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano privately with Ton Hartsuiker...
  
  
• Felipe Pérez Santiago
• Edward Top
  Edward Top
  Siemon Edward Top is a Dutch composer.Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Klaas de Vries...
  
  
• Marc Verhoeven
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Juan Felipe Waller
• Evrim Demirel
  Evrim Demirel
  Evrim Demirel is a Turkish composer and jazz pianist.Evrim Demirel was educated in Izmir High School of Fine Arts and he studied piano with Nergis Sakirzade. Then he enrolled at Bilkent University in Ankara becoming a student in the Theory-Composition Department of the Music and Performing Arts...
  
  

External links

• Rotterdamse School in Theater Lantaren/Venster at Nieuwsbank
• Elektronische muziek in de Rotterdamse School at Lantaren Venster
• Doelenkwartet Rotterdam String Quartets