Arnoud Noordegraaf is a Dutch composer and director. He studied theatre at the Maastricht Theatre School and composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Noordegraaf specialises in the symbiosis of music and visuals. During his time at the conservatory he learned the art of film making by collaborating on many productions for television and the Dutch film academy. Musically, he developed a style that emphasizes a close relation between live music and samples. The combination of these two specialisms has led to compositions which feature a strong dramaturgical influence in his work, from solo to musical theatre production. In 2001, Noordegraaf founded Inexcelsisvideo, an organisation which specialises in producing high quality film and video for the performing arts. Inexcelsisvideo became a film producer for major opera productions such as After Life (opening Holland Festival 2006) and La Commedia (premièred at Holland Festival 2008). Noordegraaf’s aim is to build an autonomous body of work, in which compositions of music and pictures are dealt with in various ways. He has collaborated with artists such as Michel van der Aa, Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley and Gary Hill; and with many companies, including Dutch National Opera and Asko|Schönberg. Noordegraaf has lectured and given seminars in the Netherlands, England and China. In 2011, the Holland Festival presented the premiere of his film opera A.M. In October 2013 his music theatre production Urwald premiered in Amsterdam.