He developed a passion for making music during childhood, formed his first band at the age of 14, and was then abruptly torn away from his piano studies at the conservatory due to tendonitis. Yes, Joep Beving’s story is like a film that he has always written his own score for. The Dutch composer and pianist explores inner worlds in order to project their images onto the screen of the outside world and allows his audience to participate in them. “Accessible music for complex emotions” is what he modestly calls it – and oh, how right he is. It is hardly surprising that Beving was inspired by such luminaries of music history as Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, and Philip Glass. Together with Maarten Vos, the collaborative work ‘Vision of contentment’ now follows via Nils Frahm's label LEITER. It is Beving's first collaboration of this kind, created in July 2023. Look forward to a search for ‘harmony and understanding’ that also involves ‘a big fuck you to fascists and fear’.