Matthijs van Dijk

Matthijs van Dijk was born into a musical family in Cape Town, the son of Péter Louis van Dijk, an internationally-renowned composer. He has become an active chamber and orchestral musician, composer and arranger. For example, his composition 'Vice' for violin and piano creates a sound that begins freely and gradually constricts the performers while speeding up along the way. The music continues with huge contrasts in pace and technical demands, which test the performers' abilities to keep up.

Since 2014 Matthijs has also been performing in the The Shh... Art! Ensemble, a collective of performers and composers who focus their energy on writing and playing new music. The group freely experiments with genre, instrumentation and performance spaces, with a view to creating a new platform for art and noise music that is bound to stretch audience members' ears.