DOMINY CLEMENTS (1964)
Dominy Clements studied composition and flute at the Royal Academy of
Music in London, and with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire
in The Hague. He now works as a freelance performer, composer, writer,
translator and music critic, and is head of the Career Development
Office at the Royal Conservatoire. Writing both libretto and music,
his first opera "An Enlightened Disciple of Darkness" on the life of
Bernhard Schmidt was produced at Toñu Kaljuste's Nargen Festival in
Tallinn in 2013. His second, "Der nordische Baer," celebrating the life
and work of Karl Ernst von Baer, has been commissioned for performance
in 2016.
