0ktober 2012 – “Blazing speed, the sharpest ensemble precision and rhythm, intensely present sound, flawless intonation, clear and compelling phrasing, and a startling range of dynamics on instruments that are supposed to have almost none at all…”
No less than three works of mine on this wonderful new cd of the Flanders Recorder Quartet, aka ‘Four in a Row’. The program results from their series of Jukebox Concerts….
Featured Dutch Composer at the Atlantic Chamber Music festival
august 2009 – I was featured Dutch composer at the Atlantic Chamber Music Festival – and witnessed an impressive first performance of my new (and first) piano trio.
Trio Amare previews Bergidylle in idyllic surroundings
november 2009 – A bit of a first night in idyllic Geldrop Castle: Trio Amare played the first movement of my setting of Heine’s Bergidylle…
Première piano trio ‘De tout mon coeur’ by the Atlantic Trio.
december 2009 – On December 13, 2009 the Atlantic Trio played the first performance of my new piano trio in a fine programme that featured Beethoven op.1:1 en Mendelssohn’s 2nd trio…
Premiere Bergidylle by the Trio Amare
Trio Amare is now touring Holland with the new Bergidylle! Romantic chamber music about the self’s searching the other in the most remote places, ironically to find itself but other than expected…with video!.
Ever more Angels, in notes, on cd’s
december 2011 – Two pieces for recorder quartet, both devoted to Angels, both recently published by two different publishers (one Dutch, the other German), both meant as a present, and both (one soon) to be heard on the cd’s of two recorder quartets of European reknown (one Dutch, the other Flemish)!
Nothing if not Dutch – an Indo in an empty shul…
march 2010 – A small tour ending with a concert on a typically Dutch theme in a typically Dutch, Amsterdam location, having a special meaning for a Dutch composer of mixed background…
Festive occasions
november 2011 – While only recently music of mine was played at the opening concert of the Dutch Chamber Music Festival, another work of mine could shortly thereafter be heard at the Hoorn Chamber Music Festival, together with a first performance of a new work by another Dutch composer, my neo-romantic collegue Alexander Comitas, played by the beautifully Romantic Atlantic Trio of pianist Bas Verheijden…
Dance Capriccio’s now also for cello and piano
May 2012 – The Three Dance Capriccio’s for violin and piano appear to be eminently suited for cello and piano. On this video, cellist Mascha van Nieuwkerk and pianist Thomas Beijer play the première of the first Capriccio in this version….
A foretaste on Facebook…
september 2012 – The cd is about to appear….
