‘Avant pop’ composer JacobTV ( Jacob ter Veldhuis,1951 ) started as a rock musician and studied composition & electronic music in Groningen. He received the Dutch Composition Prize in 1980 and soon made a name for himself with melodious compositions, straight from the heart and with great effect. The press has called him the ‘Jeff Koons of new music’ and his ‘coming-out’ as a composer of ultra-tonal music reached a climax with the oratorio Paradiso. In the US they call him JacobTV. Sounds cool, just like his music, packed with slick sounds and quirky news samples. "I pepper my music with sugar," he says. Some of his pieces are so intense, that people got freaked out by it. Or simply blown away. BASTA released an anthology of his work in 2007 at a 3 day JacobTV Festival at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. He is still considered an ‘outlaw’ in new music, whose work ‘makes many a hip-hop artist look sedate’ (Wall Street Journal). JacobTV won the first BUMA Classical Award in 2015 for the best selling classical export product from the Netherlands. Apart from orchestral & chamber music, his so called boombox repertoire, for live instruments & speech grooves became internationally popular. With around 1000 world wide performances a year, JacobTV is nowadays one of the most performed European composers. www.jacobtv.net