Composing is - besides her activities as a performing artist - one of Annette´s main occupations and as such she enjoys great recognition, at home as well as abroad. Up to today she already composed more than 140 compositions, mainly for guitar solo and the guitar in combination with other instruments. Many of these works have been published by well-known international music publishing houses.
In 1991 she won the first prize (audience award) during ´The seventh International Congress on Women in Music´ in Utrecht (Holland) with her composition 'Sgraffito' for chamber orchestra. And a year later the second prize in a competition for composition, organized by SACEM and CMAC in Fort de France, Martinique (France) with 'Faon', a work for solo guitar. In 1994 she was awarded the first prize ex aequo in the above-mentioned competition with the 'Homenaje a Andres Segovia', a composition for solo guitar. In 1998 she won the second prize with '10 Miniaturas' for guitar quartet in Italy, at the 2ºConcorso Internazionale di Composizione per Chitarra Classica “Michele Pittaluga”.

She was commissioned by the NCRV (Dutch Radio and Television), Huismuziek, The Zwolle Guitarweeks Foundation, Schouwburg Odeon Zwolle, The Mandolin Chamber Orchestra ´HET CONSORT´ and Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst.

Annette Kruisbrink currently teaches contemporary- and ethno music at the Academy of Music in Zwolle, The Netherlands, performs as a guitarist and teacher in a.o.The Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxemburg, Italy, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland.

The composition 'Dreamtime' (1997) is originally written for mandolin orchestra and can be regarded as a narrative piece of music. 'Dreamtime' is a fusion of dreams, the composer said. On one hand there are the hurried Western people who do not consider dreams, however different they may be, as important. On the other hand there is the Aboriginals' world in which dreams are directly connected with life and the hereafter. Because of the success of this particular composition, Annette Kruisbrink was commissioned by ´HET CONSORT´ to compose a new work for Mandolin Orchestra. This resulted in 1999 in a lengthy composition titled ‘Gone with the wind’, of about 12 minutes that is scheduled to be premiered during one of the Modern Music programmes by ´HET CONSORT´ in the near future.
Both compositions, ‘Dreamtime' and ‘Gone with the wind’ are published by Vogt & Fritz, Germany.

Annette Kruisbrink´s ‘Dreamtime' was premiered 1999 and first recorded by ´HET CONSORT´ on the “Aranci in Fiore” CD.

Alex Timmerman ©2000

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