Corrie van Binsbergen

(The Netherlands, 1957) is a composer and guitarist who has headlined several bands since the mid-1980s. She plays in various configurations at major music and jazz festivals both in and outside of the Netherlands. In 1999 she won the Boy Edgar Prize. Literature, stories and poetry are imporant sources of inspiration for her work. In 2003 she began working with writer Remco Campert for her Schrijvers in Concert (Writers in Concert) and another program, Brokkenbal, during Dutch Book Week, followed by many more; the authors read from their works and Van Binsbergen composes and plays a musical scenario in accompaniment as a "film for the ears". Since 2021, composing is her core business; she writes music for institutions like the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, ASKO/Schönberg and the Metropole Orchestra.