Edward Top

Siemon Edward Top (born January 1, 1972 in Ommen) is a Dutch composer.

Edward Top

Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Klaas de Vries. After his graduation he studied music theory and analysis at King's College London.

During the Dutch Music Days of 2004 he won the Henriëtte Bosmans Prize for his orchestra work Marble Sparks.[1][2] He also won the 2003 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award at the University of Illinois for his String Quartet Nr. 1.[3]

Most of his music has been published by Donemus in Amsterdam.

Selected works
  • Stillpoint (1995)
  • Overwhelming Blankness of the Ultimate Meaninglessness of Tragedy (1996)
  • String Quartet Nr. 1 (1998)[3]
  • Silk Execution (1999)
  • Symphony Gouden Draak (2000)[4]
  • Sonate for violin and piano (2001)
  • Piano Trio "en weende hij bitter" (Dutch: And He Wept Bitterly) (2001)
  • String Quartet Nr. 2 "Das Lied der Schwermuth" (2002)
  • Most Beautiful Bird of Paradise (2003)[5]
  • Marble Sparks (2004)[1][2]
  • 34 - Concerto for electric guitar and wind orchestra (2006)
  • Jimmy (2007)[6]
  • Concerto for violin and two orchestras (2007)[7]

Honors and awards
  • 1999 - Composition Prize, Rotterdam Conservatoire
  • 2003 - Martirano Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • 2004 - Bosmans Prize, Netherlands Music Days, Utrecht
  • 2006 - Atahualpa Award, National University of Lanús, Buenos Aires
  • 2007 - New Millennium Award, Birmingham Conservatoire
  • 2008 - Toonzetters
gollark: "Oh yes, I will just go OUTSIDE the universe" - statements made by GTech™ exploration probe #15996-υ/4.
gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972

References
  1. Society of Dutch Composers: Edward Top winner of the Henriëtte Bosmans Prize for 2004
  2. Dame J: Muziekdagen, óók om te kijken (Dutch: Music Days, also for viewing), Haagsche Courant, January 13, 2004
  3. Salvatore Martirano Award, Composition-Theory Division, School of Music Archived 2006-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  4. Van de Kamp W: Componisten brengen het verhaal terug (Dutch: Composers reintroduce the story), Haagsche Courant, June 6, 2002
  5. Van der Ven A: Nieuwe muziek in de greep van Messiaen (Dutch: New music captured by Messiaen), Haagsche Courant, January 13, 2003
  6. Fiumara A: Kamerbreed theater (Dutch: Chamber wide theater), Trouw, April 17, 2007
  7. Groot R: Nieuw vioolconcert Edward Top is topstuk Archived 2011-07-12 at the Wayback Machine (Dutch: New violin concerto Edward Top is top piece), Haarlems Dagblad, December 11, 2007
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