Martijn Voorvelt (Amsterdam 1967) is a self-taught composer. His work has been performed in several countries around the world, by soloists and ensembles such as Antipodes (Switzerland), Trio Fibonacci (Canada), Jan Slavik (Slovakia), Patricia Green (USA), Daniël Rowland and Bernd Brackman and the Zephyr String Quartet (The Netherlands). As a composer and performer he was involved in a number of theatre and dance productions. In 1994 his Raging, building won the EOE composition prize for young European composers. Two years later, at the Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn, he met some of his colleague composers. Together with some of them he began to organise a concert series in Amsterdam for new music that is still running as Concerten Tot En Met. In 2002, Voorvelt's string quartet 4/4 was very successful at the ISCM World Music Festival in Hong Kong. (Gaudeamus, 2003)