Rob Goorhuis

The motivation for composing this test piece for the Concert Division Brassband of the 2001 WMC was Rob Goorhuis's deep respect for one of the greatest Dutch composers of the 20-th century who also en...

The composition Kefas was written for the brass band 'Apollo' from Grou (The Netherlands), by order of the Unisono Foundation, the organisation for wind music in The Netherlands. The assignment was gi...

Rob Goorhuis schreef de compositie Amsterdam voor Amsterdam Brass in 2002. Het werk beleefde haar premi?re in 2003 in een uitvoering van de opdrachtgever. De componist, zelf Amsterdammer van geboorte...

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451. His father was a wool merchant. Originally he seemed destined to follow in his father's footsteps, and thus sailed the oceans to countries as far apart...

Rob Goorhuis wrote this challenging work for solo euphonium with its marvellous title The Seven Divine Properties at the request of Danny Oosterman and after an idea of Anteun Hoesen. In fact, this pi...

Listening to Holiday Impressions, you are instantly touched by the atmosphere of far-off lands, exotic cities and lonely beaches. Rob Goorhuis has translated his holiday impressions into a light, surp...

Listening to Holiday Impressions, you are instantly touched by the atmosphere of far-off lands, exotic cities and lonely beaches. Rob Goorhuis has translated his holiday impressions into a light, surp...

On Wings of Liberty shows us that Rob Goorhuis, one of Holland's greatest contemporary composers of music for wind instruments, is a natural when it comes to writing concert marches. His first work of...

In the year 1368 a rapacious character takes up residence in the castle of Rijnesteyn at Cothen. He is Johan, bastard son of the Bishop of Utrecht. Round this now so peaceful castle eventful matters a...

Les Marteaux de La Marine was composed in 1999 as a commission by the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The composition contains three static elements which interchange. Static in this case...

In this four-movement suite, every moment sings of a different type of French wine. All these wines have their origins in the little French village of Savigny-les-Beaune in Burgundy and are made by wi...

Excelsior was composed by Rob Goorhuis in the year 2000 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary in 2001 of the Amsterdam-based concert-band Jong Excelsior. Excelsior is a one-movement fantasia, consis...

Town Hall Overture is a lively piece, based on the Dutch folksong with a nonsense text about a June bug. In Rob Goorhuis' composition the melody is initially played complete and in unison, after which...

Goorhuis' atmospheric Preludio - a small piece he wrote as a commission from his publishing house which also distributes his music- was chosen as a serene interlude for the CD Les Marteaux de la Marin...

This march is a cheerful tribute to the board and in particular the chairman of each band. At a time when it is difficult to find suitable board members, a musical helping to the current generation of...

Written as a commission by the Stichting de Inrichting foundation of Wijk bij Duurstede (the Netherlands), Rob Goorhuis' Requiem voor de mens (Requiem for Man) on lyrics by André van Zwieten was compo...

The title and scope is not new but the message and the desire of the composer is clear. It is mainly that music can solve problems and can plead for peace in the whole world. Musically, Peace for the...

Rob Goorhuis wrote his Variations on a Pentatonic Theme (1987) for the Royal Wind band of Thorn, conductor Jan Cober. The work consists of five character variations on a pentatonic (five-tone) theme....

Don Quichote de la Mancha is a tasteful musical adaptation of the famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes in four lively movements: The first movement presents the wise nobleman Don Quixote, and in the se...