Performance at The Hague Central Library
I think I was seven when I got my first library card - old enough (at least in my opinion) to start reading "real books" (those being the ones that don't consist mainly of pictures). The first aforementioned real book I read was C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" - in Dutch, obviously, and retrospectively with rather big letters, but I still remember getting it (and promptly going out to loan four more books, getting quite upset when I found out that was the limit, never mind I c
Performance in De Regentenkamer
It has been hinted at already, in the cheerful little “next performance” box on the right-hand side of my home page – a concert will be given in De Regentenkamer, The Hague, on Sunday the 12th of October 2014. And not just any concert. A concert featuring the works of composer Jannum Kruidhof and his “Artist Collective” – the bunch of brilliant people he’s convinced to play his music – plus Yours Truly. I myself will be featuring in a rendition of “Points of View”, a funky, j
Performance at The Hungry Mind
It is now both officially and meteorologically autumn, and so I can say with one hundred percent accuracy that the new rehearsal season has started. Cue the head cold. But of course. Anyway. New rehearsal season! Most prominently, rehearsals with no less than three fabulous dancers: Florence Rapati, Thami Fisher and Pallas Sridevi, who we have cunningly lured out of retirement yet again... Pallas was actually the one that came up with it – she teaches ballet classes at The Hu
Three Pieces of Eden premiered in the Hooglandse Kerk, Leiden
I met Emma Brown in the first year of my Bachelor's degree in The Hague. I needed a singer to work with for my duo class, so essentially what happened is that I ambushed her in the canteen one afternoon and demanded she work with me. Miraculously, she agreed. Our very first lesson with duo coach Han-Louis Meijer was scheduled three days later, and we, innocent, green and overconfident as we were, decided that about an hour's worth of rehearsal was quite enough. We left Han-Lo
Performance on Landgoed de Paltz, in collaboration with Flow Performing Arts
It was supposed to be a relatively "easy" performance. I've known Florence Rapati, the Artistic Director and creator of Flow Performing Arts, for quite some time. Therefore, although we hadn't really worked together as performers before this point, when she asked me to play some pieces as live accompaniment to three choreographies of hers, I agreed without hesitation. It was to be Beethoven's Moonlight sonata, first movement, Phillip Glass' second Metamorphosis, and Saint-Saë
Off to Finland - Concert in Kangasniemi
It's quite an interesting experience to see a newspaper article about yourself that you can't read. However, I know what it says (or rather, what it's supposed to say), so understanding it is less of an issue. The violinist Elisabeth St-Cyr, who is as brilliant as she is beautiful, arranged for a concert in Kangasniemi, Finland, and since I was her full-time accompanist at the time, I rather predictably accompanied her. Our programme consisted of French and French-Canadian re
