“My aim is to inspire and connect people by conducting colorful music with all my heart.”

Experience

Artistic positions

• Artistic Director Britten Foundation for Young String Talent (2007-date)

• Principal conductor of the Britten Youth String Orchestra (2007-date)

• Head of the Chamber Music department of the ArtEZ Conservatory (2015-2019)

• Artistic leader and conductor of the Adamello Ensemble (1990-2004)

• Principal guest conductor Kiev State Symphony Orchestra (2006-2011)

• Principal conductor Rotterdam University Orchestra (1989-1998)

• Principal conductor Amsterdam CREA Orchestra (1989-1994)

• Principal conductor Amsterdam Theatre Orchestra (1984-1988)

Musical education

• Private lessons in violin and piano (1967-1977)

• Private lessons in conducting with Ru Sevenhuysen (1979-1983)

• Sweelinck Conservatory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1978-1983)
  Major course: Violin with Bouw Lemkes

• Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands (1983-1989)
  Major course: Viola with Jürgen Kussmaul
  Major course: Orchestral Conducting with Ed Spanjaard and Lucas Vis

• Master exam in Orchestral Conducting (1989) 
  Program final examination: - Schönberg, Pierrot Lunaire - Mahler, 5th Symphony

• Conducting courses in Sienna (1984-1987)
  with Franco Ferrara and Gennady Rozhdestvensky 

• Conducting courses in Saumur  (1992-1993)
  with Constantin Bugeanu (Yehudi Menuhin Association)

• Conducting course in Rotterdam (1997)
  with Ilya Musin and Valery Gergiev

• Studies with Bernard Haitink  
  in Berlin, Dresden, Rotterdam

• Private lessons with Constantin Bugeanu (Romania)
  (scholarship from 'Fonds van de Podiumkunsten' and the 'Prins Bernhard Fonds')

Conducting experience (a selection)

Britten Academy Orchestra

• L.v.Beethoven, Ouverture Coriolan

• L.v.Beethoven, Violin Concerto

• L.v.Beethoven, Triple Concert

Britten Youth String Orchestra (selection)

• P.I.TSjaikovski, Serenade for Strings

• A.Dvorak, Serenade for Strings

• A.Piazzolla, The Four Seasons

• Jacob TV, String Quartet Nr 1 Versailles

• RodionTsjtsjedrin, Carmen Suite

• W.A.Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante

• W.A.Mozart, Piano Concerto Nr 23 KV488

• B.Britten, Les Illuminations

• B,Britten, Simple Symphony

• M.Weinberg, Concertino for violin and strings

• E.Chausson, Poème

• A.Schnittke, The Story of the unknown actor

• E.Bloch, From Jewish Life

  Soloists: Daniël Wayenberg, Gavriel Lipkind, Carla Leurs, Liza Ferschtman, Rosanne Philippens, Tjeerd Top, Maria Milstein, Noe Inuï, Charlie Siem, Bernadeta Astari, Nello Mirando

Kiev State Symphony Orchestra

• L.v.Beethoven, piano concerto. Soloist: Naum Grubert

• L.Bernstein, Suite from the West Side Story

• A.Copland, Fanfare of the common man

• F. Mendelsohn, Ouverture "Die Herbriden" 

• W.A. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto KV622, Soloist: Victor Timetz 

• J. Brahms, Symphony nr. 1 Op. 68 in C minor

• Smetana, The Moldau 

• Tchaikovski, Violin Concert. Soloist : Berenice Cristine Terwey 

• Rachmaninov, 2 nd Symphony

• Shostakovich, Kammersinfonie op. 110a 

• Beethoven, Violinconcerto, Soloist : Marta Abraham

• Prokofjev, Classic Symphony

Slowak Sinfonietta

• J. Hayden, Symphony nr. 49 "La Passione" 

• W.A. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto KV622, Soloist: Jos Ruiters 

• G.B. Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, soloist: Karin ten Cate, Harda van Wageningen

• Dvorak. Serenade for Strings 

• Tchaikovski, Serenade for Strings 

• Pergolesi, Stabat Mater

  Soloists : Karin ten Cate (soprano), Maria Cecilia Toledo (mezzo)

Adamello Symphony Orchestra 

• Tchaikovski, Ouverture Romeo and Juliet 

• Aria’s and duets from :
         • Puccini, Tosca and Manon Lescaut 
         • Verdi, Othello 
         • Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana

  Sololists : Eva Maria Westbroek (soprano), Frank van Aken (tenor)

• Beethoven, 5th Symphony 

• Verdi – Puccini – Massenet - Leoncavallo, Aria’s

  Soloist: Frank van Aken (tenor)

• Bernstein, Overture Candide

• Prokofkev, Suite from Romeo & Juliet

• Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Nieuw Ensemble 

• Britten, Curlew River

• Festival programme Women Composers

European Sinfonietta
Opera Night with Miranda van Kralingen (soprano) and Frank van Aken (tenor) 

• A selection of aria’s and orchestral pieces from:
  Rossini (La Gazza Ladra), Puccini (Tosca, Bohème, Manon Lescaut), Verdi (Otello) and Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana)

BSO - Mozart, Ouverture ‘Die Zauberflöte’ 

• De Falla, ‘El Amor Brujo’ 

• Bosmans, Violin Concerto, Soloist : Mariëlle Ponsen (violin) 

• Bizet, Carmen Suite

• Mozart, 'Don Giovanni in a Nutshell' 
  Soloists: Serge Novique, Mitchell Sandler, Julia Bronkhorst

‘Erstes Frauen Kammerorchester von Österreich’ 

• Maria Anna Martinez - Sinfonie in C 

• Silvia Sommer - 5 Israeli Dances 

• Elisabetta Brusa - Adagio 

• Mahler/Schubert - ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’

Adamello Ensemble
Programme dedicated to Henriëtte Bosmans

• Henriëtte Bosmans - ‘Concertstuk voor Fluit en Orkest’ 

• Henriëtte Bosmans - Songs : ‘Dix melodies’, ‘Doodenmars’, ‘Lead Kindly Light’, ‘Gebed’ 

• Willem Pijper - ‘Fètes Galantes’

  Henriëtte Bosmans - ‘Concertstuk voor Viool en Orkest’ 
  Soloists : Eleonora Pameijer (flute), Julia Bronkhorst (soprano), Mariëlle Ponsen (violin) 
  (Programme recorded for radio broadcast by VPRO)
  
  Children’s Concert - Adamello Ensemble 

• Prokofjev – ‘Peter and the Wolf’ 

• Beethoven - 4 th piano concerto
  Narrator: Guus Rekers, Soloist: Naum Grubert

The Rotterdam University Orchestra 'Erasmusica' 

• Shostakovich - Symphony nr. 9, Borodin - Polowetser Dances
    (recorded on CD)

• Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto nr. 2
  Soloist : Wibi Soerjadi, Hans Eysackers

• Brahms - 3rd and 4th Symphony 

• Mahler - 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' 

• G.Puccini - 'Le Villi', opera in 2 acts 

  Soloists: Wiebke Goëtjes (soprano), Frank van Aken (tenor), Palle Fuhr Jørgensen (bas)

• De Falla - El amor brujo

CREA Orchestra Amsterdam\

• Mozart - Opera 'Ascanio in Alba' 

• Shostakovich - Songs from Jewish Poetry 

• Fleischmann/Shostakovich - Opera in one Act ‘Rothchild's Violin’ (Dutch première)

Trombone Festival Detmold 

• Ig Henneman - Première of 'How Slow the Wind' for 8 trombones

Jeugd Orkest Nederland (JON) 

• Dvorak - Slavonic Dances 

• Mendelsohn - Concerto for violin in e Soloist : Ilona Sin Dian Ho

• Franck - Symphony in d

Amsterdam Theatre Orchestra

• Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead 

• Prokofjev - Alexander Nevsky 

• Bernstein, Stravinsky, Monnikendam - Psalm programme

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