Bassoons for Future is an international Bassoon festival with renowned artists and teachers from home and abroad, workshops, competitions for amateur bassoonists and professionals, masterclasses, lectures, ensemble playing and an extensive bassoon market. During this concert, the trio Bram van Sambeek, Rick Stotijn and Hans Eijsackers will perform works by Bottesini, Chopin, Bach, Hindemith, Hagen and Piazzolla, among others. Before the concert, Ass. Prof. dr. R. Kim (professor at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, University of Utrecht) at 7.30 pm lecture (in English) Music and the environment.

Bram van Sambeek
Bram van Sambeek (1980) received the Dutch Music Prize in 2009, as the only bassoonist in the prize’s 30-year history. The Netherlands Music Prize is the highest state award that can be awarded to a musician who works in classical music.
Bram van Sambeek decided to play bassoon at the age of ten. During his studies, Van Sambeek already won first prizes at the Princess Christina Competition and the National Finals of the Stichting Jong Muziektalent Nederland. From 2002-2011 he was principal bassoonist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and he is a regular guest bassoonist with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Since 2011, Bram decided to focus on chamber music and solo playing. He no longer shuns any style after closely studying various performance practices from Arabic music to heavy metal.

Hans Eijsackers
Hans Eijsackers studied with Gérard van Blerk, Jan Wijn and György Sebök, among others. In 1992 he obtained the diploma Performing Musician with Distinction at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. After his studies he was invited to study at the European Mozart Academy in Kraków, which resulted in performances in Budapest, Southeast Asia, Cornwall and New York. He was winner of the Rotterdam Piano-3-day, the Princess Christina Competition and the European Piano Competition in 1991 in Luxembourg. He also twice received the Zilveren Vriendenkrans of the Concertgebouw. Since 2013 he has been appointed as Professor Liedgestaltung at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, he also teaches chamber music and duo class at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

Rick Stotijn
Rick Stotijn is nowadays regarded as one of the most prominent double bass players in the world. He received his first lessons at the age of eight, studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with his father Peter Stotijn and completed his first phase cum laude. Rick continued his education at the Hochschule in Freiburg with Bozo Paradzik. Rick has won many prestigious prizes at the Princess Christina Competition, among others. In 2013 he received the Dutch Music Prize, the highest prize for young talented musicians. Rick is currently principal double bass with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra but also regularly leads the bass group with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart, Chamber Orchesra of Europe and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Since September 2015, Rick has a permanent position at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf as Professor Kontrabass and he also teaches at the Conservatory in Amsterdam.

PROGRAMMA

Bottesini / Chopin
Tutto che il mondo (bewerkt door Marijn van Prooijen)

Bach
Partita in C (fagot solo, naar de 5e Franse suite voor klavier BWV 816, arr. T. Wind, Bram van Sambeek)
1. Allemande
2. Courante
3. Sarabande

Bach
De overige delen van BWV 816 voor piano solo 10
4. Gavotte
5. Bourrée
6. Loure
7. Gigue

Bottesini
Duetto voor fagot en contrabas (eigen arr. van Duetto per clarinetto e contrabbasso con accompagnamento di pianoforte)
1. Allegro-Adagio
2. Allegro Brilliante

Bach
Cellosuite in G groot BWV 1007 (verdeeld tussen Contrabas en fagot solo)
1. Prelude
2. Allemande
3. Courante
4. Sarabande
5. Minuet I / II -I
6. Gigue

Hindemith
Fagot sonate
1. Leicht bewegt
2. Langsam
3. Marsch
4. Beschluss, Pastorale -Ruhig

Hagen
Harlem Nocturne (arr. Marijn van Prooijen)

Piazzolla
Verano porteño
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Marijn van Prooijen)

Source : Theater aan het Vrijthof