Lucas van Woerkum
Lucas van Woerkum (1982) is a Dutch film director. He debuted in 2007 with the music film Sophia and the NPS Kort! Film to Anna.
His films consist of fiction films of classical music and music documentaries. Van Woerkum studied cum laude in 2004 at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht with the film Mahler: Ich bin der Welt, who collaborated with film maker Frank Scheffer. The film shows conductor Riccardo Chailly conducting the ninth symphony of Gustav Mahler at the Royal Concertgebouw. The film was screened in the Holland Festival and in the Louvre Auditorium in Paris. In 2007 Van Woerkum visualized a part of the first cello concert of Dmitri Sjostakovich in the film Moderato and the work Arvo & amp; Jeff of composer Oene van Geel in the movie Morendo. In that year he was selected by the Dutch Film Fund to make the fiction film To Anna for NPS Kort! This film, after a scenario of Anna Maria Versloot, was shown on television and in cinemas.
In 2008, he filmed the second part of the second piano concert of Dmitry Sjostakovich in the film Andante. The film Lento, based on Joey Roukens' 365 composition, won Best Cinematography and Best Music Awards at the 48Hour Film Festival. In 2009 Van Woerkum made a musical documentary about Dutch composer Willem Jeths, which was broadcast by the NPS. For television, he made portraits of the Matangi Quartet, Ties Mellema, the Cello Octet Amsterdam and Arvo Pärt. For the National Travel Opera, Van Woerkum made a cinematic multicamera record of Richard Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 2013, he completed the documentary 'The Making of Sunken Garden' about Michel van der Aa's movie theatrical 'Sunken Garden'. Symphonic Cinema
Under the name Symphonic Cinema, Lucas van Woerkum makes fiction films for performance in concert halls. The music is synchronized with the projected movie. Sitting in the symphony orchestra, he sends the movie images from an iPad with specially developed software. In June 2010, the film Sophia, based on the same composition of Dirk Brossé, was exhibited with the UvA Orchestra J.Pzn Sweelinck in the Grand Hall of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In November 2010, he received an assignment from The Royal Concertgebouw Workshop to film the composition Scale of Willem Jeths. In spring 2011, "The Isle of the Dead", based on Die Toteninsel of Sergei Rachmaninov premiered in a performance of The Residence Orchestra. The film was also displayed in the Van Gogh Museum next to the original painting by Arnold Böcklin. At the Dutch Film Festival 2014, Firebird was performed in a special show with The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth. The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra played the premiere of Firebird's complete ballet score in a sold out Royal Concert Hall. In July 2016, Symphonic Cinema debuted in Asia during the final concert of the season in the prestigious National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. Recent filmmakers
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