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Rieteke Hölscher (June 30, 1969) is a Dutch composer and pianist.

Contents
 * 1) Education and career
 * 2) Nominations
 * 3) Compositions (selection)
 * 4) External links

Education and career
Rieteke Hölscher studied composition with Caroline Ansink and Jeroen D'hoe at the Utrecht Conservatory. Before that she studied piano at the Hilversum Conservatory, and in the years after that she also took classes from Rian de Waal.

Hölscher developed herself as an all-round musician – composer, performer, teacher, conductor and church musician.

As a composer, Hölscher has a strong commitment to audience and performers without making creative concessions. She aims to achieve a lyrical and colorful sound with great accessibility, with the ideal to bridge the gap between music history, contemporary music and the audience.

The renowned cellist player Pau Marquès i Oleo says: "Her music has the special quality to speak from the core of an emotion. One can easily connect with what she's telling us, being both playing and listening to her music as an meaningful experience." "Your music made me repose. I could forget for a moment all the sorrows of the world", says fellow composer Homayoon Kazemi.

Nominations

 * 2012: Composition prize of Muziek Centrum Nederland
 * 2015: finalist with 'Lifebelt' at Save the Bassoon (Gaudeamus / Grachtenfestival Amsterdam with Bram van Sambeek)
 * 2017: selection of the musical sketch 'Study in Black and White' for Robot Toy Piano during Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht)

Compositions (selection)

 * Doornroosje - Sleeping Beauty speelboekje for young piano-players with twenty easy piano-pieces (2009)
 * Sunset for flute and piano (2011)
 * Etudes-Fantasie for violin solo (2012)
 * Dickinson Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano (2012)
 * Maria Magdalena - aan de voeten van Jesus for choir a capella (2013)
 * Inside Out blues for piano written for Marcel Worms (2013)
 * The Story of the Dragonfly for solo harp (2014)
 * Omlijstingen - Frames for chamber ensemble (2015)
 * Pianoconcert No.1 for youth-orchestra and piano (2015)
 * Circles around a Broken Dream for string quartet (2015)
 * Bluesberries for horn (2016)
 * Lifebelt for bassoon (2016)
 * Melomaniac for piano solo (2016)
 * Foley-Song: Emily Dickinson - Dissident for mezzo-soprano and piano (2017)
 * Il Cibo per la Musica for youth-orchestra (2017)
 * Black and White for Robot Toy Piano commissioned by the UnCaged Toy Piano Festival (2017)
 * Disturbing Light for tape en chamber ensemble (2018)