Ivo Witteveen - Composer, music producer and lecturer
Ivo Witteveen is an Amsterdam-based music composer, producer and educator, writing music for various media.
As a partner and founder of MOST, he has worked on numerous (inter)national advertising jobs for clients like Mercedes, Sony, Adidas and Coca-Cola and won multiple awards.
In addition, he created music and sound design for various museum installations, VR motion rides and theme park attractions and has been responsible for the entire audio content of attractions like Corpus.
Ivo is a professor and course leader at the Composition & Music Production major (Prince Claus Conservatoire). Among his interests are creativity & design processes and entrepreneurship in the context of professional music.
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