Artist description I'm working in the classical field, as well as in the progressive rock. On this place I promote my classical work. In 1983 I made some music for a fashion show in the Congresgebouw in The Hague. Three years later I made music for video-art, which was broadcasted by the Amsterdam art-channel. At the end of 1989 I finally got the possibility to use the computer for musical activities and since then my music isn't based on improvisation, but completely on composition. Because I always had difficulties playing written music, I stopped playing myself and used the computer as a kind of ever ready and never complaining musician.

Music Style Modern

Musical Influences Wim Mertens, minimal music

Similar Artists Ives?, Bartok?

Artist History I was born in Rotterdam in 1959 and when I was 10 years old, I moved to Rijswijk, a small town near The Hague. Till then, my musical experience was limited to recorder-lessons in Rotterdam. After seeing a concert of the Dutch symphonic rock-band Kayak at the age of 13, I knew, I wanted to play keyboards and specially synthesizers. I tried to persuade my parents to let me follow piano-lessons, but they didn't approve, till I was 16 years old. This lessons didn't last long, because I was more interested in composing. I had already started doing this and one of my first compositions, I wrote at school, during language teaching, was a piece for marimba, vibes and synthesizer, which was much later recorded with the help of a computer. It then became entitled 'Something different'. After two years I quit the piano lessons. On November the 23th in 1990, I recorded three compositions with the help of the computer in the studio of Ferdi Lancee. Amongst the recorded pieces was 'Something different'. In 1992 I wrote a composition for piano, for the celebration of the five years existence of Literary theatre Branoul in The Hague. Thus it became entitled 'Branoul'. Alas it only could be performed with the help of a computer and a synthesizer. One spectator, who was a music teacher himself, was very impressed and he asked me to write a few things based on poems by Emily Dickinson. This music was also performed in the before mentioned theatre with the use of the computer and a synthesizer.

Instruments Synthesizers

Albums Electronic Chamber Music and More

Location Rijswijk, Zuid Holland - Netherlands

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