Primo Ish-Hurwitz (2001) is a Dutch composer. In addition, as artistic director, he develops new concert performances. He studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Willem Jeths and Meri\u00e7 Arta\u00e7, and is currently studying at the Royal College of Music with Ed Bennett. In 2022, his work \u2018Listen\u2019 for voice and ensemble was awarded a shared first prize at the International Alba Rosa Vi\u00ebtor Composition Competition. That same year, the concert tour \u2018Toonzetters\u2019 premiered at the Oranjewoud Festival, an initiative by Ish-Hurwitz, which presented a portrait of 20 Dutch composers from the newest generation. The tour and the resulting album were very well received by the national press\u2014the NRC called it \u201ca project that may well prove historic.\u201d Ish-Hurwitz received commissions from the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale, and the Zeist International Lieder Festival, and his music has been performed at venues including the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Muziekgebouw aan \u2019t IJ, and De Doelen, as well as in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, and Japan. As an arranger, Ish-Hurwitz regularly works with Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, with large-scale arrangements having been performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Concertgebouw, the Philharmonie K\u00f6ln, and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Ish-Hurwitz is currently working on \u2018A Flat with a Thousand Windows\u2019 with Joke van Leeuwen, the Chaos String Quartet, Ariane Schluter, and Jos van Kan, commissioned by the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":30675,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"festivaleditie":[362],"instrument":[341],"class_list":["post-30674","musici","type-musici","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","festivaleditie-362","instrument-componist"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n