"Rhapsody for violin and orchestra" is a composition concluding a "tonal period". I composed the work in my first year at the Conservatory. This composition exists of two contrasting movements: a slow introduction, followed by a Scherzo of a rhapsody-kind, in which differing solo-cadenzas turn up, alternated with stirred up passages for the orchestra. The composition was written according to a modal system (octatonic mode) and the concept is quite romantic: complete freedom of rhythm, melody and form.
 

	Fragment from Rapsody - Scherzo
	Performers Beethoven Academy, Jan Caeyers direction Jerrold Rubenstein, solo violin
Duration	ca. 9 min
Publisher	CeBeDeM, Brussels: score, parts (manuscript) www.cebedem.be
Instrumentation	Solo violin 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in B flat), 2 bassoons 2 trumpets, 1 trombone 1 marimba, 4 timpani (2 percussionists) violins I, violins II, violas, violoncelli, double basses
Premiere	Beethoven Academy, Jan Caeyers direction Jerrold Rubenstein, solo violin (12/12/1999)
SABAM	603796700
Note	Award KBC Aquarius Composition Contest 1999
Documenten	KBC - Aquarius Nieuwsbrief (20/03/2000) (Dutch) Original program notes Premiere Rhapsody (12/12/1999) (Dutch)