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22.11.2021 New music online!
From today you will be able to enjoy new music that I recorded last year! At the end of last year I spent two very inspiring days recording some of my all time favourite pieces with some of my very favourite musicians and the result is 6 singles that will be released over the coming 6 months!
Béla Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances with the James Oesi Group
Edgar Meyer – Concert duo, First Movement with Merel Junge (violin)
Claude Debussy – Clair de Lune, with Andrea Vasi (piano)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Gavotte & Rondeau from the 3rd violin partita
Vittorio Monti – Csárdás with Andrea Vasi
François Rabbath – Poucha Dass
24.08.2021 Full line up 3rd Dutch Double Bass Festival
Dutch Double Bass Festival, which I founded in 2017 to share the beauty of the bass with a wider audience, is having a third edition on October 29th and 30th in Theater Zuidplein in Rotterdam and the full lineup has been announced with ticket sales now live!
Most of the artists will be coming to the Netherlands especially and exclusively to perform at the festival and personally I’m very much looking forward to seeing Dave Holland & John Scofield perform together live, the basses of the Nedpho with Božo Paradžik feat. Eric Vloeimans. Also Florentin Ginot and the band Madlife! I encourage you to check the website out here for the full list of amazing names!
I of course will also be performing with the widely acclaimed Dudok Quartet. The Dudok Quartet are an extremely impressive group and I’m humbled and excited to be collaborating with them on this concert!
28.06.2021 Dutch Double Bass Festival 3rd edition
The third edition of Dutch Double Bass Festival will be happening this October! Taking place on October 29th and 30th in Theater Zuidplein in Rotterdam, the first names for the third edition have just been announced! Dave Holland & John Scofield will be performing together for the first time in The Netherlands as a duo, the bassists of The Netherlands Philharmonic orchestra will (also for the first time!) be giving a concert as a section together with the legend that is Božo Paradžik, and Hadrien Feraud will be putting a tribute together to Prince, with Prince’s arranger and trumpeter, Philip Lassiter!
More names will be announced over the coming months but for now, it is possible to purchase an early bird ticket for the festival which gives you 10% discount for the whole event! Tickets are available here!
08.02.2021 New release with Astori Amsterdam
Last summer I had the pleasure of recording the album Verhalen Uit Buenos Aires (Stories from Buenos Aires) with the group Astori Amsterdam. The album is a collection of beautiful songs and instrumental numbers from Argentinian musicians (including Piazzolla and Mercedes Sosa) translated into Dutch. The concept is that being able to understand and follow the text of a song brings you much closer to the music. The CD is available for sale via astori-amsterdam.com and via all online streaming services.
04.08.2020 Music + Science in the media
There’s been quite a lot of interest from the media in the research with neuroscientist and former olympic speed-skater Beorn Nijenhuis together with sports psychologist Jet Steen into how a professional musician can best use their time in the practise room.
Be sure to read a lovely interview with Sandra Kooke, with delightful photography by Maartje Geels in Dutch national newspaper Trouw. Also Reformatorisch Dagblad quoted this article.
Another article, by Rahul Gandolohage and photographer Roger Cremers has also appeared in in the other national paper, NRC.
In addition, Beorn and I were also interviewed by NPO Radio 1 for their program ‘De Nieuws BV‘ at the beginning of the week – I also got to play a bit of Bach!
Also listen to the interview with Beorn and me and my short performance at the NPO Radio 4 programme ‘Podium‘.
And last, but not least, Beorn and I were interviewed on Dutch current tv programme Op1, and I played a bit of Bach.
