Maarten
ter Horst
Introspect album cover. Helikon Quartet / Maarten ter Horst

Intro­spect

String Quartets 1 & 2 - Helikon Quartet
Album release: June 2021, Cobra Records

“A beautifully coherent whole of story, sound, phrasing and ensemble playing.” Rating: 9/10
―Luister Magazine

Maarten ter Horst's String Quartets Nos.1 and 2 (2017-2020) form a personal journey of love, doubt, fight­ing and hope. “The romantic nature of the music spoke to us,” the Helikon Quartet told Dutch newspaper NRC.

“Pure Joy! ... Enthusiastically recommended all around”
―Positive Feedback

“A demonstration of quartet playing of the highest order”
―De Nieuwe Muze


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2024

Oct 4 Fr

12:30 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

Trio for two Saxophones and Piano (2024)
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Oct 6 Su

20:00 Pianola Museum, Amsterdam

Trio for two Saxophones and Piano (2024)
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Nov 7 Th

20:00 Lambertuskerk, Vessem

Trio for two Saxophones and Piano (2024)
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Details

Ter Horst's music is remarkably melodic and accessible, without being obvious

Luister

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Maarten ter Horst

About

“A promising young composer with a strong personal message and gift for compositional storytelling.”

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Spiegelzaal Helikon Quartet Maarten ter Horst Radio 4 Hans van den Boom

Music

Listen to work and order sheet music of String Quartets 1, 2 and Lullaby for String Quartet, published by Donemus.

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Music video

Andante doloroso

Helikon Quartet - Slow movement from String Quartet No.1

Album streaming

Introspect

Helikon Quartet - String Quartets Nos.1 & 2. Cobra Records
Helikon Quartet plays Second String Quartet by Maarten ter Horst from TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

TivoliVredenburg livestream

Waltz (fragment)

from String Quartet No.2, live by the Helikon Quartet
Helikon Quartet plays Maarten ter Horst live on Dutch NPO Radio 4 from Spiegelzaal in Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Adagio Lusingando from String Quartet No.2 (2020)

Spiegelzaal NPO Radio 4

Adagio lusingando

From String Quartet No.2 (starts around 16′30″)
Helikon Quartet / Maarten ter Horst crowdfunding video

Album

Crowdfunding video

Our crowdfunding goal was reached within 25 hours!

News

Interview NRC

Joost Galema wrote a portrait in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad after the release of Introspect. “What hap­pened to me – imposing a certain path on yourself – I see in many of my contemporaries.

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Interview NativeDSD

Floor van der Holst interviewed me for the release of Introspect. I tell her about the collaboration with the Helikon Quartet and Cobra Records, and about how it all started.

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Publishing contract

Donemus Publishing offers my sheet music both in hard copy and digitally.

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Maarten ter Horst and Helikon Quartet work together on their debut album

Crowd­funding

The Helikon Quartet and I have had a success­ful crowd­funding campaign for recording String Quartets 1 and 2 for the Cobra Records label.

Watch the video on Voordekunst