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Hirs, Rozalie (b. April 7, 1965, Gouda). Dutch composer of mostly chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works that have been performed in Europe and the USA; she is also active as a poet.
Ms. Hirs studied chemical engineering at the Universiteit Twente from 1983-90, where she worked with the organic chemistry group of David Reinhoudt and earned her MSc. She studied voice with Eugenie Ditewig at the Utrecht Conservatory in 1991-92 and with Gerda van Zelm at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag from 1992-94, where she also studied composition with Diderik Wagenaar from 1991-94, Louis Andriessen from 1994-98 and Clarence Albertson Barlow in 1997-98. She then studied composition with Tristan Murail at Columbia University from 1999-2002 and there earned her DMA in 2005. In addition, she studied with Betsy Jolas at the École des Arts Américaines in Fontainebleau in 1998 and attended Darmstadt and the annual Cursus de Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 2002.
Among her honors are grants from the Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten (1995, 2000-02), a Fulbright Scholarship (1999-2000) and stipends and faculty fellowships from Columbia University (1999-2002). In addition, she has received the Boris and Edna Rapoport Prize from Columbia University (2001, for Book of mirrors), the Reid Hall Summer Fellowship (2002) and a dissertation fellowship from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (2003-05).
As a poet, she won First Prize at the festival Pythic Plays in Amsterdam in 1995 and received a literature stipend from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2004. Her work has appeared in many literary collections and magazines since 1993, including De beste gedichten van 1998 (1999, De Arbeiderspers), Flowering inferno (2002, Philip Elchers), De beste gedichten van 2002 (2003, De Arbeiderspers), and Sprachbuch (2003, Klett Sprachen Verlag). Her three books of poetry are Locus (1998), Logos (2002) and Speling (2005, all Querido Publications). She also wrote the libretto for the opera The Cricket Recovers by Richard Ayres.
She served as a private tutor for high school students in chemistry, mathematics and physics in The Netherlands from 1991-98.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Street address: Ms. Rozalie Hirs, Postbus 3872, 1001 AR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Website: http://www.rozalie.com
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Book of mirrors, small orchestra (19 players), 2001 (version of multimedia work)
CHAMBER MUSIC: Pamwe, tenor saxophone, 2 percussion, 1994; Yliaster, violin, piano, 1995; Invisible Self, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass guitar, piano, 1996; Sacro Monte, flute, clarinet, French horn, piano, percussion, string quartet, double bass, 1997; Transarctic Buddha, percussion, 2000; a-book-of-light, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, live laptop, 2002-03; article 4, violin/viola, 2004; Platonic ID, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, 2005
CHORAL: Wel gek (text by the composer), 3 children's choruses, oboe, organ, string quartet, double bass, 1999
VOCAL: Die Parke (text by Rainer Maria Rilke), 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, 1994; Slaaplied voor een duivel (text by the composer), speaker, music box, 1994; Song for Cathy (text by T.S. Eliot), voice, 4 celli, 1995; Well (text by the composer), voice, alto saxophone, double bass, keyboard, drumkit, 1998; The Sea (text by the composer), voice, live electronics, 1999; Dog Making Kit and Puppy (text by Anne Elliot), soprano, cello, piano, tape, 2000; In LA (cocktailparty, text by the composer), 6 speakers, 2003; Klangtext, Textklang (text by the composer), voice, live electronics, 2004 (collaboration with James Fei)
PIANO: article 1 to 3, 2003
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Schizofonia, tape, 1995; Noise~, tape/live electronics, 2001; For morton feldman, tape, 2002; Ton, luxiert, tape, 2003
MULTIMEDIA: Myth of Er (text by the composer), female voice, 2 violins, 2 celli, tabla, percussion, film (by the composer), 1996; Aquarium (text by the composer), female voice, tape, film (by the composer), 1998; Book of mirrors, small orchestra (19 players), film (by Joost Rekveld), 2001 (also version without film); A throwaway coincidence that determined everything (text by the composer), tape, film (by Paul Leyton), 2004
DISCOGRAPHY
Slaaplied voor een duivel. Thom Hoffman, speaker; Ron Ford, music box (EigenWijs: EW9413, 1994)
Schizofonia. (Staalplaat: SSCCD 001, 1995)
Invisible Self. Ric Sims/Ralph Henssen, Ellister van der Molen, Geerten Roze, trumpets; Vincent Rinaudineaut, Liron Rinot, Hessel Veldman, trombones; André Dienske, bass guitar; Marc Reichow, piano (CSTM, 1997)
Sacro Monte. Ives Ensemble (NM Classics: 950008, 1999)
In LA. Rozalie Hirs, speakers (Tielen/FokkeWubbolts: AD2002, 2003)
(Last updated on March 27, 2005)
