“THE MUSIC IS NOT IN THE NOTES, BUT BETWEEN THEM.”
In addition to my work as a therapist, I also work as a Performing Musician. I am inspired by playing together with colleagues in an orchestra or in ensembles. Then I communicate without language, which has a very relaxing effect on my body and mind. I then end up in another dimension and make a different contact with myself than I do through thinking. This is how I experience who I am.
Music is a way for me to express my feelings, dilemmas and passions. I have been playing a musical instrument since I was six years old. First an accordion and then double bass and piano. Double bass has become my main subject and after completing the conservatory I work as a performing musician. The warm sound of the double bass forms the basis of a symphony orchestra or a string orchestra. As a solo instrument, the double bass also brings the right vibration into the room, which can change the resonances between people, allowing them to connect more with each other.
Through this deep connection with the art of music, playing or feeling it, i have developed ways to transmit it – in an engaged, meaningful way – to all the people i try to help.
History: Performing Arts
Orchestra experience, played in the following orchestras:
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Residentie Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Radio Symphony Philharmonic
- The Gelders Orchestra
- The Brabants Orchestra
- Holland Symfonia
- Metropole Orchestra.
I have worked with the following conductors:
Riccardo Chailly, Bernhard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Antal Dorati, Zubin Mehta, Wolfgang Sawallish, Valery Gergjev, Carlo Rizzi, Pierre Boulez, George Solti, Myung Wang Chung, Hartmut Haenchen, Yakov Kreizberg, Ivan Fisher, Edo de Waart, Neeme Järvi, Hans Vonk, Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Tausk.
Operas in which I have played:
- Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried & Götterdämmerung; Tristan and Isolde; Der Fliegende Hollander; The Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tannhäuser
- Richard Strauss – Salomé; Electricity; Der Rosenkavalier; The Frau ohne Schatten; Capriccio; Intermezzo
- Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto; Falstaff; Otello; Il Trovatore; La Traviata; Macbeth
- Giacomo Puccini – La bohème; Tosca; Madame Butterfly; Turandot; Gianni Schicchi; Manon
- Lescaut; Soeur Angelica
- Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin; Mazeppa
- Gioachino Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- W. A. Mozart – Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Le Nozze di Figaro; Cosi fan Tutte
- Gaetano Donizetti – Don Pasquale
- Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov
- Benjamin Britten – The Rape of Lucretia
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
- Johann Strauss – Die Fledermaus
- Alban Berg – Wozzeck; Lulu
- B.A. Zimmermann – Die Soldaten
- Franz Schreker – Die Gezeichneten
Ballets in which I played in the accompanying orchestra:
- Adolphe Adam – Giselle
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Ludwig Minkus – La Bayadère, Don Quixote
- Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
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