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….
Scherzo from violinsonata in Kamerklanken Festival
october 2012 – Rosanne Philippens and Yuri van Nieuwkerk played the première of the Scherzo from my new duosonata for violin and piano in the Festival Kamerklanken. It is the third movement of a four movement sonata that will be premiered in March 2013 in the concert series at the spectacular Slot Zeist…
Dutch Classical Radio 4 Over the Water
On june 25 Dutch Radio 4 broadcast an ‘Eveningconcert’ recorded in the Amsterdam Uilenburger Synagoge. It was titled Over the water, after my quintet for guitar and string quartet that was on the program that evening.
Upon the face of these waters the spirit of Debussy moved that night…
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano in Zeist Music Days
august 2010- In the 2010 edition of the Zeist Music Days, artistic director Alexander Pavlovsky (a musician of great reknown, especially as the first violinist of the Jerusalem Quartet) has played my trio for violin, clarinet and piano with Nancy Braithwaite, clarinet, and Bas Verheijden, piano. The program included Haydn, Bach and Glazunov, and musicians like violin player Shmuel Askenasi, pianist Robert Kulek and, last but certainly not least, the Utrecht String Quartet…
