Alex Poelman

Partners

Commissioned & performed by

From leading professional and military bands to passionate amateur ensembles — the groups who have commissioned and premiered my music.

NEOS Brass

Netherlands

NEOS Brass is a joint initiative of a small group of talented musicians with a passion for playing at the highest level — in fact the only professional brass ensemble in the Netherlands. Its members are professional musicians who earn their living with various other orchestras but come together, often for concerts, as NEOS Brass. The roughly twenty players perform with ensembles such as the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Het Gelders Orkest and the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Commissioned‘Theophoros’

Orkest Koninklijke Marechaussee

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

The professional fanfare orchestra of the Dutch Koninklijke Marechaussee, based in Apeldoorn. Founded in 1950, it performs at military ceremonies and state occasions such as Veterans’ Day and the National Tattoo, and tours internationally across Europe and beyond.

Commissioned‘KMartial Arts’
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Arti et Religioni Alphen aan den Rijn

Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands

The concert wind band of the Arti et Religioni association, some fifty musicians known locally for their musical quality and distinctive programmes ranging from original wind repertoire and classical works to film, musical and world music.

Commissioned‘Pinocchio’
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Muziekvereniging St. Caecilia Hank

Hank, Netherlands

Lively fanfare band that has long been a familiar presence in the village of Hank, performing everything from cosy village concerts to themed and exchange programmes. The association nurtures its own players through a beginners’ brass class, a training orchestra and the main orchestra.

Commissioned‘Biesbosch Line-Crossers’
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ZomerOrkest Nederland

Netherlands

National youth wind orchestra, founded in 1987, that each summer brings together talented musicians and conservatory students aged 16 to 23 from across the Netherlands. Newly assembled every year, it commissions new works, invites guest soloists and young conductors, and performs open-air concerts in town squares and other public spaces. ZON commissioned and premiered Draco in 2008.

Commissioned‘Draco’
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Koninklijke Harmonie Oosterbeek

Oosterbeek, Netherlands

Wind orchestra that consists of about fifty musicians whose programmes range from original modern wind repertoire and classical arrangements to film, musical and light music, and who each year provide the music for the Airborne Remembrance ceremony at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Oosterbeek. It is the orchestra where Alex Poelman started playing.

Commissioned‘Pegasus’
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Adoramus Choir and Orchestra

Cockfosters, London, United Kingdom

Choir and orchestra founded in 1996 by David Hooke, then Music Director at Christ Church, Cockfosters, and led by him ever since. Its programmes range from opera to gospel, and across some ninety concerts the ensemble has recorded five CDs and appeared on BBC Songs of Praise.

Commissioned‘D-Day’ Symphony orchestra & Choir

Commission

Commission a new work?

Whether you’re a professional orchestra or an amateur band with an idea, I’d love to write something for you.

It starts with a conversation. Together we discuss the kind of work and its subject — whether you already have a topic in mind or I should come up with one — the difficulty, the instrumentation, and the strengths of your orchestra, band or ensemble. We also settle when you want it finished, the effort involved, and the funding needed to make it happen. And of course you will be added to this partner page.

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