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Welcome to the official website of Jan-Peter de Graaff, composer and conductor in the field of modern classical music and specialized in orchestral and chamber music and opera.

“He sees solo concertos as instrumental musical theatre, where the soloist stands as an individual opposite of the collective of the orchestra musicians — an outsider, but also a participant — creating a sense of dramatic tension.”

DIMITRI VAN DER WERF, NEW MUSIC NOW
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“We stand on the shoulders of giants, anchored in tradition, but I always try to make something that sounds fresh and adventurous.”

EMILE HOLLMAN, ZOUT MAGAZINE
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Upcoming concerts

08

Jul

Masterclass Sir aNDRÁS sCHIFF

battleground (2025) - Chaos String Quartet

During the masterclass by Sir András Schiff, the Chaos String Quartet will play Battleground (2025). Battleground was composed as a ‘musical comment’ to the second quartet of Opus 20. It is based two motives from this quartet: the trills from the second movement and the fugue theme from the fourth movement of Haydn’s quartet.

ABOUT BATTLEGROUND (2025)

Ritterburg Lockenhaus

lockenhaus, Austria

15:30 - 18:30

09

Jul

Matinee

battleground (2025) - Chaos String Quartet

Battleground (2025) will be played during this matinee of the Korossy Quartet & Chaos String Quartet. Battleground was composed as a ‘musical comment’ to the second quartet of Opus 20. It is based two motives from this quartet: the trills from the second movement and the fugue theme from the fourth movement of Haydn’s quartet.

ABOUT BATTLEGROUND (2025)

Synagoge Köszeg

Köszeg, Hungary

11:15 - 12:30

27

Nov

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest met Thomas Beijer

le café de nuit (2017)

Granada in summer, given voice by Thomas Beijer and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. A sultry wind, the smell of orange trees, and in the distance the sound of a fiesta flamenco. With De Falla musicians are searching for sunlight, while they will enter the pub through the notes of Jan-Peter de Graaff. Van Goghs Le café de nuit served as inspiration for this piece.

ABOUT LE CAFÉ DE NUIT (2017)

Tivoli Vredenburg

Utrecht

20:15

10

may

JAN-PETER DE GRAAFF: COMPOSER PORTRAIT

La bestIa (premiere), BATTLEGROUND (2025) and more

In May, Jan-Peter de Graaff’s new composition “La bestia” for solo organ, written for Orgelpark, will premiere. During this portret concert, you will also here other works from his oeuvre such as Enivrez-Vous! (2023), Battleground (2025), Jutters (2019) and more.

Orgelpark

Amsterdam

14:15

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About Jan-Peter

Jan-Peter de Graaff (1992) studied music composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague under the tutelage of Guus Janssen, Calliope Tsoupaki and Diderik Wagenaar and at the Royal College of Music in London with Kenneth Hesketh. He graduated in 2016 (MMus) with the prize-winning opera “All Rise!” (Nicolaï fund award, 2016). Next to his composition studies he studied orchestral conducting with Alex Schillings and Lukas Groen.

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