Welcome to the website of Joke Kegel, composer.
Born in 1960 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, within a creative family, of music and art. At the age of 8 Joke learned the basics
of pianoplaying with Nora Rijkers in Vinkeveen. At the age of 15 she was fascinated by art-lessons in the atelier of Rinus Duin
and in 1979 she was accepted in the Art Academy Artibus in Utrecht. The music lessons at Artibus of the musicologist
Frans Boersma awakened her need for making music. She made two different installations "TOUCH" and "COVERING'S", studied
at the Rijks Academy in Amsterdam for one year and decided to focus on music and theatre. She studied singing, piano, composition
and music-theory, in the professional Music Institution of Edgard Vreuls, MIEV, in Amsterdam. While she worked as a singer, teacher,
music/theatre-producer, conductor and composer of contemporary music, she did her state-exames for music history, analysis,
music theory and didactics for singing-pedagogy. Further she studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, to do the composition
and singing study: Contemporary Music through non Western Techniques, CMtNWT, and had private lessons with Cecilia Arditto,
Daan Manneke and Fabio Nieder and recently Louis Andriessen. She won a composition prize with the piece 'Stroom water' in Arnhem
Flow water' for choir and stone-percussion in 2005 during the IKF (International Choir Festival) and has a honorable mention for
her piece in 2009 "You, wind of March' for piano trio, for the Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize of the 28th IAWM's search for New Music
Competition.This year she presents a contemporary music-theatrical and inter-media program Alternative faces with young
professional musicians with her new work. and work of other composers. Her work is supported by the foundation Karnatic Lab and
different fundings of Amsterdam. Correspondence is welcomed in the language of your preference as long as it is in
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