Arnoud Noordegraaf is a Dutch composer and director. His productions form a class apart within contemporary music, combining interdisciplinary media in compositions and theatrical forms, resulting in "a remarkable unity in style and atmosphere" — NRC Handelsblad. His style focuses on a theatrical interaction between live instruments and their electronic counterparts; a very surrealistic musical vocabulary, instruments produce sounds beyond their natural capacities. Visually, Noordegraaf conceives and directs his own films, or in his own words 'composes both in music and in images'. Here also, the music and the film narrative intertwine, creating a universe that is both real and unreal. OPERAS In 2011 Noordegraaf teamed up with English writer Adrian Hornsby to create a Murakami-inspired Tokyo-film-opera “A.M.”, premiered at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. The duo's next big music theatre work "UrWald" premiered in 2013 in Amsterdam. In 2015 they teamed up again, inviting the infamous artist Ai Weiwei in their team for the opera 'As Big as the Sky'. The press was both ecstatic and shocked by this opera. "An original and convincing combination of film, theatre and opera" — NRC Handelsblad In 2016 Arnoud collaborated with director Boukje Schweigman and percussion group Slagwerk Den Haag on a new work about skin, 'Huid', a piece that again received critical acclaim. Noordegraaf is based in Amsterdam. http://www.arnoudnoordegraaf.com