About

Jasper de Bock (2003) is a composer and pianist from Best (NL), currently studying composition at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague with Martijn Padding and Jan van de Putte.

Jasper started composing at the age of 7 when he found an old keyboard in the attic of his house and hasn’t stopped since. Interested in the reaching the illogical through logical means, his music doesn't shy away from the absurd or the comical. Accepting all influences, different pieces can use vastly different languages. However, a thread of simplicity, always veiled in ambiguity, can be seen in most pieces. He has won numerous awards and competitions such as the Royale Conservatoire prize for Young Composers (twice); the Future symphony competition; the first, second, and third prize of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Festival Composition Competition in Saint-Petersburg; the first prize in the national Princess Christina Concours for composition.

Jasper has been performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles all over the world such as the Lithuania national symphony orchestra, Dutch wind ensemble, New European ensemble, Ereprijs Orchestra, St. Petersburg Governor’s Symphony Orchestra and many others.