Anne Vanschothorst — CV (Highlights)
2012 Audio recordings licensed to date via Parma Licensing (used by Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, TLC, Innocent Creep – Tropfest NY, GUCCI).
2014 Release of EK IS EIK (I Am Oak), on Big Round Records.
2015 Composition and audio recording for Living River, a nature documentary by Ruben Smit, screened in cinemas and broadcast on national Dutch television.
2017 Release of Beautiful World, music for multimedia.
2018 Composition and harp recording for art pieces by Kandinsky and Degas for Boijmans Art Rocks,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
2019 Composition and audio recording for Une vie de Renarde, a nature documentary by Ana Santos for Ateles Films, broadcast among others on national French Television channel FRANCE 5.
2020 Release of klip lied snaar, an Afrikaans–Dutch book and CD collaboration with poet Antjie Krog.
2021 Composition and audio recording for Still Life, an installation with a poem by Antjie Krog and a sculptural video by visual artist Bronwyn Lace. Exhibited and co-curated by William Kentridge and Phala Ookeditse Phala at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2022 Pater Noster, a harPoetry movie featuring Antjie Krog, selected, screened, and discussed in the virtual listening room during the International Alliance for Women in Music Conference.
2022 Composition, audio recording and production of Transparant van die tongvis / Transparency of the Sole, animated poetry by visual artist Diek Grobler, written and read in Afrikaans by poet Antjie Krog. Official selection Zebra Film Festival in 2022 at the Haus für Poesie, Berlin. Participant in the PoetryFilmTage, 2023 Weimar, and touring the Dutch film theatres in 2024, initiated by the Dutch Poetry Film Festival.
2022 Composition and audio recording for a poetic pamphlet by Marion Bloem, presented at the exhibition of Fiona Tan at EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2023 Release of That I Did Always Love, an Emily Dickinson-inspired harp soundscape with poems narrated by Annie Einan, on PARMA Recordings.
2024 Composition, audio recording and production for I hav’nt told my garden yet, a pin screen animation by visual artist Diek Grobler. Screened at major international film festivals, it has received the prestigious NPF Award at the Dutch Poetry Film Festival.
2025 Selected as a juror for the Dutch Poetry Film Festival Competition.
— Collaborations (A selection)
Museums: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Museon, Museum Jan Cunen, EYE filmmuseum, Bonn Landes Museum, Royal Academy of Arts London, Saatchi Gallery
Festivals: TROPFEST New York, Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin, Odense International Film Festival, Nederlands Film Festival, Go Short, Crossing Border Festival
Studios: Studio Drift, Dutch Igloo, Studio Joost Grootens
Visual artists: Bronwyn Lace, Christian Thompson, Erica Baltimore, Ana Santos, Dan Carabas, Michele Turriani
Animators: Diek Grobler, Joost II Sickenga, Aimée de Jongh
Illustrators: Silvia Weve, Harriet van Reek, Willem Samuel
Authors: Antjie Krog, Diana Ferrus, Marion Bloem, Anne Vegter, Jan Eijkelboom
Musicians: Jeroen van Vliet, Maarten Vos, Sven Figee, Michael Moore, Arthur Bont, Rebecca Sier, Bob van Luijt, Jasper Somsen, Roland Kuit, Robert Voisey
— Interviews & Discussions (A selection)
NPO Radio Klassiek: Hollandse Nieuwe with Lex Bohlmeijer, on life, landscapes & poetry (Antjie Krog, Joke Hermsen)
BNN/VARA: Keihard klassiek with Jan van Poppel, on work in general, Emily Dickinson
Concertzender: with Evert-Jan Nagtegaal on poetry, new music
Luister Magazine: with Karen Duking on life, inspiration, cross-over productions
Omrop Fryslân: with Willem Waldpyk on the composition process, marketing/pr, new music
Den Haag Centraal: with Hans Willink on life, music, composition process, Graham Norton
Nederlands Poeziefilm Festival: Jury Member
International Alliance for Women in Music Conference: Panellist, discussing my presented works
— Press Quotes (A selection)
‘Many of the miniatures remind me of Erik Satie – not that her music is in his style, but that both composers so thoroughly explore an artfully restricted sonic universe – in which chords and single melodic lines appear in alternation and at a pace slow enough to experience them almost as if they were sounding sculptures.’
— American Record Guide
‘The wonderful minimalist and subtle film music is striking.’
— Volkskrant
‘There is a stunning soundtrack quality to Anne Vanschothorst’s music, but that should be no surprise as she has been called upon to provide such to the visual arts.’
— All About Jazz
‘It is precisely this sensitivity, the eye and ear for the smallest vibrations, that has made it possible for this great team to create a new work of art that clarifies, transcends and is equally universal, based on this classic and ever-current poem by Emily Dickinson.’
— Jury Dutch Poetryfilm Festival on giving the NPF Award to I hav’nt told my garden yet
Anne Vanschothorst works from her Harp and Soul studio in the green surroundings of The Hague, the Netherlands.