After a short career in pop music, Douwe Eisenga studied composition at the Conservatory in Groningen (NL). Firmly shaken by all sorts of contemporary composing techniques, it took a while until Eisenga found his own sound after his study.

Around 2001 this own musical language developed rapidly, which resulted in the chamberopera Kabaal, the large-scale Requiem and the premiere of his Piano Concerto in Yokohama, Japan.

He worked with the writer David Mitchell for the project Cloud Atlas, and with theatre company Schweigman+ for the danceperformance Wiek.

Since 2010  his music attained  more and more attention worldwide. Pianists as Jeroen van Veen (NL),  Lisa Kaplan (US), Nicolas Horvath (FR) & Francesco di Fiore (IT), and harpist Assia Cunego (Germ) play Eisenga’s music in America, Canada, China and Europe.

His Requiem was done again in Rumania, the Italian ensemble PADS recorded the album House of Mirrors and harpist Lavinia Meijer premiered several compositions.

The Claudia Schreier Dance Company premiered the ballet Harmonic in NYC, followed by Charge and Pulse, all set on Eisenga’s music. In 2014 followed the music for The Writer, his Wife, her Mistress, performed by the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet.

Follow-up projects were Momentum as part of the National Celebration of Liberation in 2015, the premiere of Bliss by Cello8tet Amsterdam and Echoes for the Belgian ensemble Origami and a mini-tour with the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.

In 2017 the pianopiece For Mattia rose to no 53 in the Dutch Heart & Soul List, a list of the 300 most populair classical pieces, chosen by Dutch radio-listeners. 

Music that could have long-range importance - American Record Guide

Douwe Eisenga knows to immerse us miraculously in a timelessness that we could forever linger in - Inactuelles

Eisenga possesses the uncanny ability to write expressive, high-quality music capable of appealing to discerning listeners of all ages - Textura

The man writes the best Minimal Music you know until then and he calls it Maximal Music. Douwe Eisenga is his name. The best Minimal Music, that sounds exaggerated.

Certainly. But it isn't. According to me. Eisenga conjures in his music worlds in my head where courtiers court another, where rivers burst out their banks, where mirror images suddenly reach out, where a summer breeze tickles your neck - PZC

Eisenga drags the listener into a musical world where dreamy melancholy and accelerating sequences alternate with a lot of excitement. Inevitable and very compelling - Klassieke Zaken

This composition testified of an unprecedented mysticism. The Flood of composer Douwe Eisenga can now already be labelled as of the greatest compositions of this time - Rumanian Radio

2001 Marcel Worms - More new blues for piano

2003 Super Librum - Thit was to there stunde

2003 Requiem ‘53

2006 Rose Road - City Lines

2007 Marcel Worms - Red, White & Blues

2009 Music for Wiek

2009 Cloud Atlas

2009 The Piano Files

2010 Clazz Ensemble - Delta Suite

2010 Jeroen van Veen & Friends - Minimal Piano Collection X-XX

2011 PADS - House of Mirrors

2013 Cloud Atlas (special edition)

2015 The Flood, Requiem

2015 Alternatives

2015 Simon Songs

2015 The Writer, his Wife, her Mistress

2015 Summary

2015 Westland Saxophone Orchestra - Fansaxtic

2016 Erika Tazawa - Rhythm of Silence

2016 The Piano Files II

2017 Kabaal (Uproar)

2017 For Mattia (single)

2018 Feico Deutekom – Feico Solo

2019 For Mattia (album)

2019 For You Have Delivered My Soul