♬ Stichting Rijnmond Muziekprijs ♬jury
“Dutch pianist and composer, Jeroen van Veen, the leading exponent of minimalism today”, Alan Swanson (Fanfare)
"Jeroen van Veen has for many years been a powerhouse in the piano world of the Netherlands and beyond", Dominy Clements (Musicweb-International)
"The Maximal Minimalist Missionary", Raymond Tuttle (Fanfare Band)
Jeroen van Veen (1969) studied at the Utrecht Conservatory. As a pianist, he is a prizewinner of various competitions and gives concerts all over the world. In addition, he has already recorded 200 CDs, 5 DVDs and 6 double LPs for various labels. In most cases he was the developer, technician, editor, executive and ultimately responsible for these productions. According to a number of critics, Van Veen is the 'minimal music' specialist, but he also worked with Robert Craft on the oeuvre of Igor Stravinsky for piano, among others. He also recorded all the work of Simeon ten Holt for several pianos in collaboration with various colleagues. Van Veen is a regular guest judge in international competitions and is Director of Artistic Development for the International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Foundation in Miami.
As a composer/arranger, Van Veen uses electronic music and is strongly inspired by minimal music with crossovers to Jazz, Blues, Soundscape, AvantGarde, Techno, Trance and Pop Music. His 24 minimal preludes that he wrote from 1999 to 2006 appeared in full on the CD box Minimal Piano Collection. In 2014 his box Piano Works was released with a selection of his own works on 5 CDs. His oeuvre now comprises just under 150 compositions.
www.jeroenvanveen.com
www.vanveenproductions.com
‘I see in repetitive music a comparison with the way our society is set up. When you see how we plant trees next to our road network, how we build, how we produce things – everything goes in series. But never exactly right, the repetition never kills.”
www.jeroenvanveen.com
Aart Bergwerff (organist and teacher of organ and organ building at the Rotterdam Conservatory)
Aart Bergwerff is a passionate and versatile musician. He likes exciting and adventurous programming. Aart has a passion for the classical repertoire on the one hand and likes to look for new ways and forms in organ culture on the other. He regularly collaborates with video artist Jaap Drupsteen. With the Turkish dervish dancer Kadir Sonuk he made the performance 'East meets West', set to the music of Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt. Another example is the production Mi Corazón, in which organ and tango dance meet.
Clarity, transparency, timbre and timing characterize Aart's music making. He is also a gifted storyteller, he has the gift to speak visually about music.
Aart has been organist of the Grote of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe-Kerk in Breda since 2012 and artistic director of the Art UnOrganized foundation. As a concert organist, he frequently performs at concerts and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad.
As a teacher, Aart is affiliated with the Rotterdam Conservatory, part of Codarts, University of the Arts. Since 1994 he has been a principal subject teacher of organ and arranging there.
Aart Bergwerff studied organ, choral conducting and church music at the Rotterdam Conservatory. At the Royal Conservatory in The Hague he studied improvisation with Bert Matter. He continued his organ studies in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain and in Northern Germany with Harald Vogel. He concluded his studies in Paris by obtaining the Prix de Virtuosité.
In 2003 he was awarded the silver medal of the Société Académique 'Arts, Sciences et Lettres' for his services to French organ culture.
www.aartbergwerff.nl
Joachim Eijlander (cellist and principal subject teacher of cello at Codarts).
"...great sense of fantasy and eloquence"
"...detailed but informed, instinctive response that allows for
spontaneity"
The Strad magazine, January 2016
Joachim Eijlander performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, Asia and the United States. Joachim has performed with ensembles and musicians such as the Borodin Quartet, Lisa Larsson, Robert Holl, Randall Scarlata, Inon Barnatan, Karl Leister and Godfried Hoogeveen. Joachim has collaborated with composers Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtag, Sofia Gubaidulina, Louis Andriessen and Joey Roukens.
In 2015, Joachim recorded all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suites for the Navis Classics label, followed in 2017 by the CD "Sequentia!" with exceptional caprices by the composers Joseph dall'Abaco and Alfredo Piatti. Both CDs received extremely favorable reactions from the international press.
Joachim is a main subject teacher at Codarts Rotterdam,
department representative cello and double bass there and professeur de violoncelle at the Conservatoire Royal National Supérieur de Musique et Pédagogie de Namur, Belgium.
Joachim is a recurring guest at international festivals such as Sitka Alaska and El Paso Texas (USA), Prussia Cove (GB), Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (D). As a soloist, Joachim has performed with, among others, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chernihiv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Romanian State Philharmonic TirguMures, Csikszereda Chamber Orchestra and various festival orchestras.
Joachim connects his music with dancers, visual artists and with
scientists in inspiring joint performances to inspire a wider interested audience.
Joachim has taught at Indiana University, Milwaukee
conservatory, Oklahoma University, Ljubljana conservatory and op
international festivals. Joachim teaches chamber music at the Dutch String Quartet Academy department of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Joachim founded the Rubens Quartet in 2000 and played in this internationally prize-winning ensemble until 2015. He has performed with this quartet at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tonhalle Zurich, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Berliner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Dôme des Invalides Paris and Rudolphinum Prague.
Joachim plays an exceptional instrument from 1755, made by an anonymous Tyrolean violin maker in Rome.
www.joachimeijlander.com