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Currently working on:
Working on the project “Exiting Chaos”, an operatic performance inspired by Sylvia Plath. A collaboration with the visual artist Silvia Bolognesi, actress/dramaturg Barbara Duijfjes and the mezzo-soprano Maria Kondylidou. The piece will be premiered in spring 2025.
Reworking on the project “A Piano in my Sketchbook” for live piano music and live drawings, together with the illustrator Silvia Bolognesi.
Upcoming Concerts:
Lunchbreak Concert together with the violinist
Deborah de Jong, 12/11/2024, Oosterkerk, Zoetermeer.
Main artistic activities during 2006-2024
2024- Premier of my piece “Re-Place-Me” for flute, cello, bass clarinet and tape. The piece was a commission by the ensemble Oihua and was presented on “De Dag van de Componist” on June 15, Batavierhuis, Rotterdam.
2024- Lunchbreak Concert together with the violinist Deborah de Jong, 29/05/2024, Ouderkerk Zoetermeer.
2024 - Arrangement of the pieces "Je te Veux" by E.Satie and "Flow my Tears" by J.Dowland for three female voices. (Commissioned by νήμα vocal ensemble).
2024 - Performance with Trio Bosklank, February 17, 2024, at Sint-Janskerk, Gouda.
2024 - Performance with violinist Deborah de Jong, March 12, 2024, at Oosterkerk, Zoetermeer.
2023 - Premiere of the project "A piano in my sketchbook", September 30, 2023, Theaterzaal SKVR,Rotterdam.
2023 - Performance of the project "A piano in my sketchbook", December 10, 2023, Kunst Gallery Tante Nino, Rotterdam.
2023 -concert for piano four hands with pianist Joana Rolo, December 16, 2023, Possthornkerk, Amsterdam & December 17, 2023, Tante Nino, Rotterdam.
2023 - Solo piano concert for the 125th anniversary of the group 'Kring tot Gedachtenwisseling'.
2023 - Creation/development of the project "A piano in my sketchbook" for piano and live drawings, together with illustrator Silvia Bolognesi.
2023 - Solo piano concert at Oude Kerk Zoetermeer, September 6, 2023.
2023 - Solo piano concert at Oude Kerk Zoetermeer, January 11, 2023.
2022 - Participation as a pianist in the project "Dialogue with Willem Pijper" together with Ivan Nogueira and Hadewijch Hofland, October 14, 2022, Kunsthal & October 21, 2022, in Batavierhuis.
2022 - Participation as a composer in the 'Clang Contemporary Music Festival'. Presentation of his own piece 'On Command' for Cello and loop station. Played by Ivan Nogueira, January 2, 2022.
2022 - Solo piano concert at Oude Kerk Zoetermeer, September 17, 2022.
2022 - Concerts with Trio Bosklank.
2021 - Quatre-mains concert together with pianist Joana Rolo at Tante Nino. December 14, 2021.
2021 - Revision and music composition of his own children's opera 'Jacques de Slak'. Dutch premiere on November 21, 2021, at Theater 'In de Lugt', Rotterdam.
2021 - 700+6 (concert with works by Bach and Borodin) participation as a soloist for the concert for 3 pianos BWV1064 by J.S.Bach, Bergsingelkerk, Rotterdam on 26/9/2021.
2021 - Music accompaniment of the film 'Broken Blossoms' (2019) by D.W.Griffith during the festival 'Stomme Films zijn niet Stom!' at Tante Nino.
2021 - Music composition for the project of Ensemble Oihua "The weekend of Silence", the performance will take place on June 6, 2021, in Rotterdam.
2021 - Participation as a pianist in the live-streamed concert "Something to be happening" in collaboration with several pianists.
2020 - Concerts with Trio Bosklank.
2020 - Quatre-mains concert together with pianist Jona Rolo for "Klassiek op Zondag"-city podium, Rotterdam.
2020 - Solo concert at Ouderkerk, Zoetermeer.
2019 - Concert with AKOM ensemble at Festival Dag in de Branding, Theater aan het Spui, 12/10/2019.
2019 - Concert with AKOM Trio and world premiere of his own composition 'The see slides back', Cultural Center, Hilden, Germany.
2019 - Concerts with trio Bosklank.
2019 - Organization of the Festival "Evenings Without Wanda" in collaboration with Tante Nino, Rotterdam.
2018-2019 - Concerts with trio Bosklank with clarinetist Dafne Caffa and soprano Sara Moreira Marques.
2018 - Concerts with AKOM ensemble including the Woorden Nacht festival at Schuwburg, Rotterdam.
2018 - Presentation (text, dramaturgy, puppets, and music composition) of his own music theater piece "When green turns grey", for 4 instrumentalists and 2 puppet players.
2017 - Participation (as a pianist) in various concerts for the Opera Dagen Rotterdam with soprano Danai Bletsa.
2017 - Organizer of his second 3-day interdisciplinary festival "Evenings Without Wanda" in his private studio in the Kunst Zone of Oud Charlois.
2016 - Concert with AKOM quartet in De Toonzaal with two work premieres featuring works by Jan Kuhr and Klaas de Vries.
2016 - Organizer of his 3-day interdisciplinary festival "Evenings Without Wanda" in his private studio in the Kunst Zone of Oud Charlois.
2015 - Winner of the Toonzaal-Fontys chamber music contest, together with AKOM Quartet, leading to concerts at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven and De Toonzaal in Den Bosch.
2014 - Performance of the piece "Eleven Echoes of Autumn" by George Crumb, together with AKOM ensemble at De Doelen, Rotterdam.
2014 - Piano recital (with works by J.S.Bach) at NAI Museum for the opening of the exhibition "Structuralism" at Het Nieuw Instituut, Rotterdam.
2014 - Participation in the music installation by Giada Gianassin (as pianist and co-concept developer) at NAI (the New Institute, Rotterdam).
2014 - Music composition and performance of the piece "Trust Issues" together with Saskia Venegas in collaboration with Be4Company (circus company). The performance took place at Oerol Festival in June 2014.
2013-14 - Participation (as a pianist) in the Gaudeamus Muziek with a piece by Nikos Galenianos.
2012 - Presentation (text, dramaturgy, and music composition) of his New Music Theater piece "A bloody fruity opera" for piano, pianist, recorded narration, and tape.
2010 - Performance of the piece "Five Pianos" by Morton Feldman, which was recorded by VPRO for the internet archive. De Doelen, Rotterdam.
2008 - Music composition for the play "Denise Calls Up", with director Sofia Karakantza, and sound design for the "Literature Morning" based on a text by Dimitris Dimitriadis, with director Sofia Karakantza, National Theater of Northern Greece.
2006 - Music composition of my own children's opera "Gary the Snail"