The Lake Before Dawn

Igor Iofe is a contemporary
composer from Tashkent currently based in Amsterdam whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations.

At theConservatorium van Amsterdamhe studied with Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres, Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed on the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12), Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the founding members of the 528Hz