Discipline: Music Composition

Cord Meijering

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Darmstadt, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Cord Meijering is a Dutch composer. His works have been performed at the Festival de Tardor Barcelona, the Steirischer Herbst in Graz, the Festival d' Evian, the Frankfurt Festen, the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, the CrossSound Festival in Juneau and Sitka, Alaska, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Meijering is co-founder of the Ensemble Phorminx. His oeuvre includes compositions for orchestra, chamber music, dance theater, opera, and film. In May 2006, the first two movements of Neue Lieder aus Italien und Deutschland for small orchestra (Orchestra of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Ltg. Norbert Biermann) were premiered. The work is dedicated to his teacher Hans Werner Henze on his 80th birthday.

Studios

Veltin

Cord Meijering worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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