Joep Beving


Joep Beving is a Dutch composer and a pianist.

Life and work

Beving studied Public Administration. He then went to work in the advertising business, where he was mainly responsible for the music of numerous commercials. He also composed soundtracks for the short films Hortum and Het cadeau.
In 2015 Beving released his first album - Solipsism, with modern classical atmospheric piano pieces. He himself describes his compositions as "accessible music for complex emotions". In 2017 his second album, Prehension, appeared in a similar style to his debut album. In 2018 he made Conatus.

Discography

All of his recordings have been published under the Deutsche Grammophon label:
Beving cites his musical influences as Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Chopin, Satie, Radiohead and Mahler. His favourite classical composers are Scriabin, Prokofiev, Mahler, Brahms, Arvo Pärt, Peteris Vasks and Tigran Hamasyan.
Beving says his writing is free of rules. His music often follows a pop structure but also takes inspiration from ambient, electronic and minimal classical music.