Jan Van der Roost
Jan Van der Roost is a Belgian composer.
Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp. Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Lemmensinstituut. He is also a guest professor at the Shobi Institute of Music, the Nagoya University of Arts, and Senzoku Gakuen.
Jan Van der Roost has composed over 90 works, for a variety of musical styles, including brass band, fanfare, concert band, orchestra, and choir. He has also dabbled in composing various pieces in the style of late 17th- to early 18th-century dance music, and is often cited by jazz musician Tom Collier in his lectures as a prime example of musical transformation.
Since 1988, Van der Roost exclusively writes music on commission. He frequently incorporates characteristics of the place he received his commission from into his music. He has also integrated traditional folk music into several of his pieces.
Works
- 1834
- A Highland Rhapsody
- A Highland Rhapsody
- A Year Has Four Lives
- Adagio for Brass
- Adagio for Winds
- Adagio for Winds
- Albion
- Algona Overture
- Amazonia
- Apollo
- Arghulesques
- Arpád
- Arsenal
- Attila!
- Autumn
- Avalon
- Balkanya
- Ballad for Bass Trombone
- Bassonnerie
- Beata viscera
- Brasiliana
- By the River
- Cantabile e Ritmico
- Canterbury Chorale
- Canzona gothica
- Castellum
- Céad Míle Fáilte
- Centennial Prelude
- Ceremonial March
- Chemical Suite
- Christmas Time
- Concerto Doppio
- Concerto Grosso
- Concerto per Tromba
- Concierto de Homenaje
- Concordia
- Condacum
- Contemplations
- Contrasto Grosso
- Conzensus
- Coventry Carol
- Credentium
- Crescent Moon
- Cuprioles
- Domus
- Donar
- Dublin Dances
- Dynamica
- Flashing Winds
- Glorioso
- Images
- Jupiter
- Manhattan Pictures
- Mercury
- Metalla
- Montana March
- Nobilitas
- Orion
- Osakan Jubilee
- Puszta: Four Gipsy Dances
- Rikudim
- Signature
- Singapura Suite
- Sonatina Piccola - commissioned by and dedicated to Peter Verhoyen
- Spartacus - Symphonic Tone Poem
- Suite Provencale
- Tirol Terra Fortis
- Volcano