de oude woorden...

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Frederik Neyrinck (°1985)

text: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (°1968)

De oude woorden van een tijd die komen gaat

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He studied classics at Leiden University, where he earned his PhD in 1996 with a dissertation on the archaic Greek poet Pindar and worked as a researcher and teacher of Ancient Greek until 2004. In 2008, he moved to the northern Italian port city of Genoa, where he has lived and worked ever since. With the novel La Superba (2013) he experienced his international breakthrough. In 2015, he published the poetry collection, Idyllen, nieuwe poëzie, consisting of fifty long, narrative poems about the sea composed in rhyming alexandrine verse. The collection pairs poetic eloquence with political and social engagement. He won every prize there was to win for this work, including the VSB Poetry Prize, and the collection became a bestseller. At the end of 2018, Grand Hotel Europa appeared, a grand novel about love in times of mass tourism, European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era. The book was applauded in the Dutch and Belgian press and immediately became a bestseller. He is currently working on new work for theater and on a second collection of Idylls.

Frederik Neyrinck

Composer Frederik Neyrinck (°1985) studied in Brussels, Stuttgart and Graz with Piet Kuijken (piano), Jan Van Landeghem, Marco Stroppa and Clemens Gadenstätter (composition). His compositions were already performed by different ensembles and orchestras in Belgium and abroad. He often makes transcriptions of existing repertoire as well. His music has been recorded by, among others, I SOLISTI, Revue Blanche and SPECTRA. In 2017-2018, he was season’s composer at Concertgebouw Brugge. He is artist in residence at I SOLISTI from 2020 until 2024. He received the Austrian Staatsstipendium for compostion in 2018 and the Förderpreis of Vienna in 2020. He is also very active in the field of music theatre/opera. He is in residency at LOD muziektheater and collaborated with Kopergietery Ghent, makemake produktionen Vienna and the State Theatre in Oldenburg as well. As a pianist, he currently has a duo together with Teresa Doblinger (bass clarinet/dance) with whom he recently won the NASOM-bursary for 2020-2021.