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Carine Alders graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Amsterdam in 1987, with cum laude honors, and later obtained a degree in Musicology from Utrecht University in 2009. She worked for eleven years at the Leo Smit Foundation, focusing on PhD research about suppressed composers. Her project builds on prior work to recover the forgotten legacies of composers in the Netherlands who were persecuted during World War II. This research highlights the dramatic impacts on composers' careers—many were Jewish and refused to comply with the Nazis, which forced them into hiding or exile, ultimately leading to their persecution and deaths. Alders intends to fill the historical gaps regarding these composers' lives and contributions to Dutch music history, which have been largely overlooked due to the dominance of modernistic perspectives that have shaped historiography. Her research is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, and she aims to apply recent theories on biography, heritage conflict, war, exile, and identity to develop a theoretical framework that reconstructs the missing pieces of Dutch music history.
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