Caroline Ansink
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Caroline Ansink
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Caroline Ansink was born on 8 August 1959 in Amsterdam.
She studied flute under Abbie de Quant at the Utrechts Conservatorium and obtained a Docerend Musicus (1985) and a Uitvoerend Musicus (1986). From 1983 to 1988, she studied composition under Joep Straesser and received the Composition Prize in 1989. Afterwards, she visited several times the Korean composer Isang Yun for advice.
As a flutist, Caroline Ansink is member of the Clara Schumann Orchestra in Cologne and teacher at the Utrechts Conservatorium. In recent years, she has worked by commission as a freelance composer of all imaginable forms. With the conception of music as a way of communication she, in service of the expression which passes words, strives after the integration of music from all times, places, cultures and styles, without forgetting her own position (the one of composer in the hectic twentieth century in Europe). In 1992, the TV documentary, "I compose as a human being," dedicated to the works of Caroline Ansink and Catharina van Rennes, was broadcasted by the Dutch television network NOS.
Caroline Ansink writes chamber music as well as orchestral and choral compositions. Her compositions are performed by the Nederlands Balletorkest, the Nederlands Studenten Kamerkoor, Abbie de Quant, Jard van Nes, Osiris Trio, Brisk, Syrinx saxophone quartet, Duo Cuypers / Lop, etc. She composed the music for the children's performance "Van Aap tot Zet" with 26 animal poems of Mensje van Keulen, from which parts were broadcasted within the TV-program Klokhuis.
In 1985, she won the second prize of DEDOK Mannheim for the string quartet "Shades of Silence" (1984) and, also of GEDOK, in 1989 the first prize for "Pyrrhus" for organ (1988), for which she also was awarded by Cappella Civica in Trieste (1988). She received the third prize of the Association of Hungarian Musicians (1989) for her piano trio "SkopÛs." In 1990, she received the prize of encouragement of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for her compositions "Night and Day" and "Zeitenschrunde." The Washington International Competition (1990) gave her the honorable mention for "Brezze" for string quartet, for which she also obtained a prize in 1992 of the city of Chard in Great Britain .
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