Nieuw Geneco (Dutch Composers Association) is a professional association that promotes the direct and indirect interests of composers living and working in the Netherlands. Nieuw Geneco is a source of knowledge and inspiration for composers, music professionals and the general public. It provides them with practical information regarding fair practice, contracts, business support, composing and performance opportunities, and stimulates exchange of knowledge and contact among colleagues. The association has been representing the interests of composers since its foundation in 1911. Today there are about 350 composers affiliated. The members of the association are creators of both complex and accessible, as well as conventional and unconventional, composed music. The composers work in a broad range of genres, such as art and concert music, jazz, improvisation, harmony, fanfare and brass music, choral music, electronic and electro-acoustic music, sound art, as well as creating works for theatre, dance, ballet, musical theatre, the visual arts and film.