Celia Swart

Vision on teaching

With a focus on composition, I find it interesting to guide students to find and shape their own musical and interdisciplinary identity.

 In my own works I like to build a complete musical sound world from a few music materials and a simple but strong concept, where with these building blocks I can work out and develop each layer within the work.

 I’d like to show students that within a composition or multimedia work, everything can be interconnected and have correlations with one another. That being musical material in itself, music and visuals but also the performers on stage can be treated as a visual medium in itself.

Biography

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a contemporary composer and multimedia artist.

Her works could be described as ‘New Simplicity’, they do a lot with few elements and therefore place an important focus on their sound world. She has a conceptual approach to her works and although her music is non-narrative music, Celia incorporates a narrative structure in the concept that is driven by personal themes such as isolation, insecurity, fears and dreams.

Celia Swart has written several compositions for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Resonances XXI (FR) and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival Ensemble (USA), among others. Her music has been performed at various venues and festivals such as Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Bimhuis, TivoliVredenburg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Bang on a Can Loud Weekend (US), Collège Néerlandais in Paris (FR) and has been broadcast on radio and television (NPO Radio4 and NPO1 Vrije Geluiden (NL), BBC Radio3 (UK).

More information see https://www.celia-swart.com/

Foto: Karmit Fadael