A very strong characteristic of Meijering’s works is a large variety of styles. Without any difficulty, he seems to move between different musical worlds and genres and thus creates a different texture for each of his works. Some of them remind of pop, jazz or world music, others are written in a classical tradition or show avant-garde elements. Meijering is driven by spontaneity. All kinds of emotions and experiences that arise during a day, may directly flow into the composition he is working on. Sometimes he even uses accidents as a method and throws the dice for creating clusters. Meijerings works always have programmatic titles, sometimes funny or provocative or fooling around with toilet or sex humour. Examples include “I Hate Mozart” (for flute, alto saxophone, harp and violin), “I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana” (for alto saxophone, marimba, piano, harp, and violin), “If the Camels Don’t Get You, the Fatimas Must!” (for solo violin), “When the Cock Crowed His Warning” (for two recorders, viola, cello and piano), “GangBang” (for large orchestra and electric guitar) and “Background-Music for Non-Entertainment Use in Order to Cover Unwanted Noise” (for four saxophones). http://www.chielmeijering.com/ Keith Calmes earned degrees in Classical Guitar Performance from California State University Northridge, The Juilliard School, and the University of Southern California. His performance credits include a Carnegie Hall recital debut, concerti with the Monmouth Symphony, a performance with Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and concerts with flautist Marjorie Koharski. Many composers have written for Keith, including Roger Aldridge, Will Ayton, Timothy Broege, Frank Campo, Ruben Delgado, Chiel Meijering, Maximo Diego Pujol Stepan Rak and Jim Scully. Keith teaches at Wall High School in New Jersey and was presented the Outstanding Teacher Award from The College of New Jersey. Acoustic Library and Mel Bay Publications have published many of his works.. Keith endorses Godin Guitars, K & K acoustic pickups and ZT Amplifiers; and also performs on a guitar built for him by Kristopher Barnett. http://www.keithcalmes.com/