What Is Sarah Neutkens Thinking? Sarah Neutkens

• Sarah Neutkens (b. 1998): Bright Edge Deep:
• 1 Neutkens: Bright Edge Deep: Bright Edge Deep 05:08
• 2 Neutkens: Bright Edge Deep: The Block Split 04:13
• 3 Neutkens: Bright Edge Deep: Wicklow Also 04:47
• 4 Neutkens: Bright Edge Deep: The Plough 01:57
• 5 Neutkens: Bright Edge Deep: Its Low Sills 06:31
• Hexagon:
• 6 Neutkens: Hexagon 05:12
• Other Echoes (Arr. for Solo Piano):
• 7 Neutkens: Other Echoes (Arr. for Solo Piano): Other Echoes I 03:34
• 8 Neutkens: Other Echoes (Arr. for Solo Piano): Other Echoes II 04:49
• 9 Neutkens: Other Echoes (Arr. for Solo Piano): Other Echoes III 05:11
• 10 Neutkens: Other Echoes (Arr. for Solo Piano): Other Echoes IV 04:01
• Rigel:
• 11 Neutkens: Rigel 06:39
• I Saw A Crowd:
• 12 Neutkens: I Saw A Crowd 04:08
• Total Runtime 56:10

Info for What Is Sarah Neutkens Thinking?

The album "What is Sarah Neutkens thinking?" comes from the hand of Eindhoven composer and pianist Sarah Neutkens (24). "There are feelings and thoughts in life that you can't put into words, they come out to me through music," says Sarah. For this double album, she wrote a composition for string quartet, which was recorded by the Alma Quartet, consisting of members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. "It was a pleasure to work with Sarah. We were given all the freedom to bring to life the music she put on paper," said Marc Daniel van Biemen, the quartet's primarius. The second part of the album consists of pieces for solo piano, which Sarah played and recorded herself. In addition to the first single Hexagon, Rigel and I Saw A Crowd, it also includes an arrangement for piano of Other Echoes, a piece she previously composed as a string quartet.

Sarah Neutkens

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Sarah Neutkens
(Eindhoven, 1998) is a Dutch composer, pianist, visual artist, model and art historian/journalist. She is drawn to all things unconventional, always seeking total freedom in her work. She is not only operating as a classical composer, having her works performed by ensembles like Alma Quartet and Nederlands Kamerkoor, but she also aims to connect contemporary music, jazz and popular music with the world of art and fashion. This has lead to multiple interdisciplinary collaborations: artist residencies for music festival Into the Great Wide Open and Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, articles in Harper’s Bazaar and collaborations with museums.

With this interdisciplinary approach, Neutkens wants to show that composing music is not only for old, grey men from the past: as long as you look for total honesty in expression through music and art, composing is completely relevant.

Neutkens’ compositions are published by her publisher Donemus and her CDs are published on her own label, Neutra Records. On this label she has released several albums: Hexagon (2016), Cumulus (2018), Pieces for Strings (2019) and September (2020). Her works have been played on radio stations like BBC3, Klara and Radio 4 and the pieces have been performed in several major concert halls and on tv-programmes.

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