flutist
/guitarist (Rotterdam, Holland 1960)
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An influence on my way of
playing had: my teachers Wim Spruijt and Derek Moore and later directly o indirectly
guitarists like Julian Bream, Leo Brouwer, Ralph Towner, Andres Segovia, Paco de
Lucía, Steve Vai, Jimi Hendrix and flutists like Frans Brügen, Barthold
Kuijken, James Galway, Trevor Wye, James Newton, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Robert Dick.
I play all kind of genres and styles and am open
for all good music, but most of all I concentrate on playing contemporary music,
especially my own compositions or works written for me.
From 2000 I have been playing the Eva Kingma system 1/4 toon
flute, which enables me to play microtonal music which we find so much in
"etnic" music, jazz, flamenco en western contemporary composed music. I
play transverse in both contemporary and baroque music.
I started out on the Spanish guitar but later I became
atracted by the electric guitar, which I use now in contemporary composed music, jazz and
free improvisation. The electric guitar can sound very sweet like a Spanish guitar but
also very rough like heavy metal. Using pedals and sometimes combining electronics it's an
ideal instrument, rich in colors for contemporary chamber music.
I played composed and improvised music with
musicians like Michael Benedik, Michael Svoboda, Luc Houtkamp, Frances Marie Uitti, Wiek
Hijmans, J. Mª Balanyà, Ananda Sukarlan, Robert Dick, Harry Sparnaay, Xu Fengxia,
Jorrit Dijkstra, Oene van Geel, Markus Stockhausen, Tara Bouman.
I founded many ensembles like Trio Sekwenza, Ensemble
Barcelona Nova Musica, Christiaan de Jong Ensemble, Intelligent Sound Ensembe en Globus.
I was soloist with Grupo Circulo (Spanje) and Banda Municipal de Barcelona(Spanje).
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