Pianist and composer Douwe Eisenga creates sparkling music for sparkling minds, a hypnotizing mix of rhythm, haunting melodies, and compelling lyricism. Honest, down to earth peoples-music. Often subdued and sober with a generous force: the underlying melodies carve themselves into the soul of the listener.
For the last twenty years, Eisenga has gained world-wide attention. He works with British writer David Mitchell, American choreographer Claudia Schreier, Italian harpist Assia Cunego, and the Russian Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. Closer to home, he writes music for harpist Lavinia Meijer, pianists Marcel Worms, Jeroen van Veen and Gerard Bouwhuis, Cello Octet Amsterdam, Slagwerk Den Haag, and many more.
His musical DNA is rooted in rock, pop, and world music. All these influences, combined with baroque and the minimalistic repetitiveness of Glass, find their way into the pieces of Eisenga.
In 2017, Eisenga recorded the eight-minute long For Mattia. He is commissioned to write this piece by the parents of a young lady who chose to end her own life. It unintentionally created a starting point for the lightning-fast development of his career as a concert pianist.
The touching composition has been high in the Classical Top 400 for five years now, with the 400 compositions most popular on Radio 4 according to listeners. This lustrum was the reason for a guest appearance on a popular Dutch television show, which was watched by approximately one million viewers. Last fall his new album Open was released by Butler Records / V2 Records. The song Theme I from this album was included in the gift CD (15,000 copies) of a yearly Dutch campaign for classical music.
Meanwhile, in September the press praised the music of the location theater project Landmark 369 and the documentary Thirteen Days – with music by Douwe – was nominated for a Golden Calf (a sort of Dutch Oscar).
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