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
Gaspard de la Nuit - A Modern Dance Performance premiered in Oslo
Gaspard de la Nuit is one of the milestones within piano literature. When Ravel dreamed it up in 1909, he specifically set out to compose something more difficult from Balakirew's still-notorious Islamey. The result of that endeavour consists of three pieces, based on three poems from the French poet Aloysius Bertrand's 52 poem cycle "Gaspard de la Nuit". Ondine, the first in the trilogy, is the story of a water nymph, attempting to seduce a mortal man to come to her realm. S
