Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV ( Jacob ter Veldhuis,1951 ) started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music. He received the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980 and became a full time composer, who 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 video oratorio Paradiso based on Dante’s Divina Commedia. 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. You can not accuse him of complex music, but some of his pieces are so intense, that people got freaked out by it. Or simply blown away. A CD/DVD anthology was released 2007 on Basta at a 3 day JacobTV festival at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. JacobTV is 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. JacobTV’s so-called Boombox repertoire, for live instruments with a grooving sound track based on speech melody, became internationally popular. With 1000 world wide performances a year, JacobTV is nowadays one of the most performed European composers. www.jacobtv.net