Celia Swart - Composer & visual artist
Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a contemporary composer and multimedia artist. Her compositions can be described as ‘New Simplicity’; creating a whole world out of a few elements, placing significant focus on their sound world. She has a conceptual approach in her works, and although her music is non-narrative, a narrative structure is incorporated within the concept driven by personal themes such as isolation, fears and dreams.
Celia Swart has been commissioned by orchestras and ensembles including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Kluster5 (NL), Nieuw Ensemble (NL), Resonances XXI (FR), and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival Ensemble (USA). Her music has been performed at numerous venues and festivals such as Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Bimhuis, TivoliVredenburg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Bang on a Can Loud Weekend (USA), Collège Néerlandais in Paris (FR), and has been broadcast on radio and television (NPO Radio4 and NPO1 Vrije Geluiden (NL), BBC Radio3 (UK).
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Composer Celia Swart tells about the connections her audiovisual work Our Patio has with a building by Dudok, a flute ensemble - and two people embracing.
Celia Swart is a contemporary composer and multimedia artist. She has been commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nieuw Ensemble (NL), Resonances XXI (FR), and others.
