Robin de Raaff (born in Breda, December 5, 1968) is a Dutch composer. De Raaff studied composition with Geert van Keulen and Theo Loevendie at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music where he graduated cum laude in 1997. In 1999 he was invited to work as George Benjamin’s only composition student at the Royal College of Music in London where he also studied with Julian Anderson. In 2000 De Raaff was invited to the Tanglewood Music Center as the ‘senior fellow’. That same summer, his septet Ennea’s Domein was performed as part of The Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood, a piece which was later programmed during the State of the Union concert of the London Sinfonietta. The Tanglewood Music Center awarded De Raaff a commission to write a piano concerto which was premiered at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music in 2001. Since that premiere, his Piano Concerto has been performed in Frankfurt, Utrecht and in Rome (October 2004). Opera 'RAAFF' The opera RAAFF was commissioned by the Netherlands Opera and co-produced with The Holland Festival under the direction of company director Pierre Audi. The origin of this opera began with De Raaff’s success during a master-class organized by the Netherlands Opera with Pierre Boulez in 1995. Boulez praised De Raaff’s string quartet Athomus (1993) further confirming and encouraging the success that De Raaff was already receiving in Europe. Soon thereafter, De Raaff shared his idea with Pierre Audi about an opera inspired by