CLAUDIA RUMONDOR - THE NETHERLANDS
BORN 9 MAY
Claudia Rumondor studied composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Daan Manneke, Wim Henderickx and Theo Loevendie. She attended harp lessons with Anke Bottema, Gertru Pasveer and Alexandre Bonnet. Claudia also graduated at the University of Amsterdam in Media and Culture (film studies), and Musicology. Since 2009 she studies Javanese gamelan with Elsje Plantema.
Claudia was the first CvA composer to graduate with a teaching license. In order to continue her research in educating composition the CvA provided her with a Top Talent scholarship. With this background, she prepared several young composers for their study at the conservatory. In the years 2008-2012 she worked as an artist in residence at Markant, Center for Education in Arts Apeldoorn. Since 2010 she's also resident composer at FluXus Center of the Arts Zaanstad. Claudia was the assistant artistic director of the FluXus program Music makes Cool from 2010-2014, developing classroom instrumental education for primary schools. In this program she teaught the harp, gamelan, choir, improvisation and composition. She also coördinated the program.
From June 2012 until March 2013 Claudia worked as an artist in residence in her own town district Poelenburg.
Claudia's compositions have won several prizes, including a first prize at the Princess Christina Competition 2001 and the Henriëtte Bosmansprijs 2008 of the audience. In 2004, one of her orchestral pieces was selected for the final of the Project Jonge Componisten. Most of her compositions have been published by Music Center The Netherlands (Donemus). Works have been performed by the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, Holland Symfonia, the New Ensemble, the New Trombone Collective and the Netherlands Wind Ensembles a.o..
Claudia is co-founder and secretary of the Jan Rokus van Roosendael Foundation and board member of the Society of Dutch composers (GeNeCo) a.o.. In her spare time, Claudia likes to write poems, of which some were nominated for or awarded with prizes.
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JANE M. JOSEPH - UK
Jane Marian Joseph (31 May 1894 – 9 March 1929) was an English composer, arranger and music teacher. She was a pupil and later associate of the composer Gustav Holst, and was instrumental in the organisation and management of various of the music festivals which Holst sponsored. Many of her works were composed for performance at these festivals and similar occasions. Her early death at age 35, which prevented the full realisation of her talents, was considered by her contemporaries as a considerable loss to English music.
Holst first observed Joseph's potential when he was teaching her composition at St Paul's Girls' School. She began to act as his amanuensis in 1914, when he was composing The Planets, her special responsibility being the preparation of the score for the "Neptune" movement. She continued to assist Holst with transcriptions, arrangements and translations, and was his librettist for the choral ballet The Golden Goose.
During her short professional life she became an active member of the Society of Women Musicians, was the prime mover behind the first Kensington Musical Competition Festival, and helped to found the Kensington Choral Society. She also taught music at a girls' school, where Holst's daughter Imogen was one of her pupils, and became a leading figure in the musical life of Morley College. Two memorial prizes and scholarships were endowed in her name.
Most of Joseph's compositions were never published and are now considered lost. Of her published works, two early short orchestral pieces, Morris Dance and Bergamask won considerable critical praise, although neither became part of the general orchestral repertory. Two choral works, A Festival Venite and A Hymn for Whitsuntide were admired during her lifetime, but never commercially recorded. Since her death, her work has seldom been performed, but occasionally been broadcast. Her carol "A Little Childe There is Ibore" was thought by Holst to be among the best of its kind.
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Venite by Jane M. Joseph
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