Reinier van Houdt is a composer and pianist from Rotterdam, Netherlands, member of both the Ensemble MAE and the Ives Ensemble.

Reinier van Houdt studied piano at the Liszt-Akademie in Budapest & the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He premiered music by ao Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Francisco López, Charlemagne Palestine, Yannis Kyriakides, Maria de Alvear, Jerry Hunt; he has collaborated with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Luc Ferrari, Olivier Messiaen and with theatrecompanies like Hotel Modern, Andcompany&Co, Veenfabriek, Leine&Roebana and ZOOGDIER, a musictheatregroup of which he is co-founder. He also one of the driving forces behind ensemble MAE.

He performed in such diverse venues as the Knitting Factory New York, San Ildefonso Mexico City, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, DOM in Moskou, Setagaya Gallery Tokyo, Paradiso Amsterdam, Apollohuis Eindhoven, the New Library in Alexandria Egypt, Mills College Oakland, Music Gallery Toronto, HAU in Berlin and Kunstraum Düsseldorf

Reinier van Houdt developed a fascination for matters that escape notation: colour and timing - the point where interpretation touches improvisation.

He acquired himself - cutting through schools, styles and genres - an unusual repertoire that consistently resulted from personal enterprises; be it from collaborations with composers, from research in archives, from the 'composing' and 'staging' of music-performances or from an unorthodox studying of the classics.

His piano-playing searches to defy the false clarity of the digital age and no longer reduce music to one score, one interpretation, ten fingers or the fake eternity of circular soundcarriers Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.