2 march 2024
De Balie, Amsterdam
For Real with Resonate Productions PREMIERE
8 march 2024
Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag
For Real with Resonate Productions
21 - 24 march 2024
Portland, Oregon, USA
Columbia Gorge Early Music Retreat 2024
25 march 2024
Seattle, USA
Solo concert and workshops, Seattle Recorder Society
13-14 april 2024
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK
ERTA Recorder Weekend
18 april 2024
Brebl, Nijmegen
Jerboah concert
5 may 2024
Lunalia Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
For Real with Resonate Productions
15 May 2024
Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
Concert Beneath a Pale Moon with Block4
16 May 2024
Fluxus, Zaandam
Concert with New Moon Orchestra
17-18 May 2024
O.Festival, Rotterdam
For Real with Resonate Productions
15 june 2025
Het VEEM, Amsterdam
For Real with Resonate Productions
19 june 2025
Wells Cathral School, UK
Masterclasses
1-2 august 2024
Malvern, UK
Solo concert and tutoring at Suzuki Summer School
5-12 august 2024
Beverley, UK
Tutoring on UK Recorder Summer School
18 august 2024
Atlanta Recorder Society, USA
Online conference/workshop
8 september 2024
Gigant, Apeldoorn
For Real with Resonate Productions
12-18 january 2025
Armidale, Australia
Performing and tutoring at the Australasian Recorder Festival
past performances
selected highlights2023
Published first book of sheet music ‘My Favourite Melodies’ with Schott. Recorded as soundtrack soloist on an episode of TV series ‘Bob’s Burgers’. Performed solo concert ‘Microcosmos’ across the Netherlands, and Birmingham, UK. Performed at festivals including Gaudeamus, November Music, Lunalia Festival with Millennial History. Weekend seminar on the low recorders at Mollenhauer Centre in Fulda, DE. Concerts in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands with Jerboah. Masterclasses at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire UK, and with the Korea Recorder Player Association. Tutoring and perfroming at the UK Recorder Summer School. Sold out workshops and presentations at the 50th edition of the London International Festival of Early Music.
2022
Solo concerts at the Loulé Festival of Early Music Portugal, and the Glimåkra Blockfløjtsdagar Sweden. Music-theatre show Millennial History and While We Live with Resonate Productions, in performances across Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands. Appearances on BBC radio 2 and 3, and Podium Witteman podcast. Close Call at Rewire Festival. Video performances with recorder quartet Block4 on education project Recorder Adventures.
Education: appointed Recorder Professor specialising in contemporary music at Royal College of Music, London. Teaching at Conservatorium van Amsterda, Conservatoire Leuven, and in Germany, Sweden, Portugal and the UK.
2021
Performing in Lithuania with The Royal Wind Music. Tour of the Netherlands with Jerboah, supported by the Fonds Podiumkunsten. Concerts at Grachtenfestival and O.Festival Rotterdam with ‘While We Live’. Partnership with Netflix to give recorder lessons to the cast of ‘Vivo’ movie. Live-stream concerts as a soloist, and with artists including cimbalom player Vasile Nedea. Online masterclasses to early music societies across the UK, Belgium, the USA and Canada. ‘While We Live’ movie has won 20 film festival selections and prizes so far. Appointed Honorary Vice-President of the Society of Recorder Players UK.
2020
Solo concert and masterclasses at the Nordhorn International Recorder Festival, Germany. Tutoring a range of recorder workshops in New Zealand and the UK, and online to Israel, Germany, and the USA. Workshops and masterclasses for the Britten-Pears programme and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Speaking at the REMA Early Music Summit. Premiere and tour of documentary concert While We Live at De Balie, Amsterdam, and the Festspiele Berlin. Launch of the Team Recorder online courses.
2019
Solo concert and masterclasses in São Paulo, Brazil. Telemann concerto for recorder and flute with musicians from the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Visiting tutor at the London International festival of Early Music. Premiere of ensemble SQUARETET, performing works written for the Kronos Quartet. Uit logeren (2+) at Grachtenfestival. Tour of Finland and the Netherlands with The Royal Wind Music. Solo concert at Klassifest, Paradiso. Collab with Boris Acket and Maarten Vos at What About Now festival. Concert tours with Koerikoeloem by Miranda Driessen and Close Call by Arthur Wagenaar. Tutoring on courses in NL, UK, Germany.
2018
Release of debut album Constellations. Musical director on the movie Recorder Rewrite by Song-Ming Ang in Singapore. Guest star on BBC show YolanDa’s Band Jam. Concert tour of the Netherlands and Germany with The Royal Wind Music. Concert tours with Koerikoeloem by Miranda Driessen and Close Call by Arthur Wagenaar. Masterclasses at the Mollenhauer Centre in Fulda, Germany and Blokfluitdagen Mechelen, BE.
Also a few months of maternity leave.
2017
Collaboration with trio aXolot, stargaze orchestra and Aart Strootman at Gaudeamus Festival. Requiem by Willem Jeths at Cello Festival Zutphen. Performances of Uit logeren in De Doelen, TivoliVredenburg, Odeon Theater Zwolle. Premiere of Koerikoeloem by Miranda Driessen and Close Call by Arthur Wagenaar. Collaboration Elements with Jerboah and Nieuw Ensemble. Concert tours with The Royal Wind Music. Masterclasses at Birmingham Conservatoire, UK.
Winner of the first prize and contemporary music prize at the Nordhorn International Recorder Competition.
2016
Tour with 33 shows of music-theatre piece Hoe de grote mensen weggingen with trio aXolot, Het Zuidelijk Toneel and Theater Artemis. Concerts in Croatia, Germany, UK and NL with The Royal Wind Music. Documentary Talent Boven Water is made about Jerboah. Jerboah wins the music pitch at the Grachtenfestival. Performances of works by Darragh Kearns-Hayes with the Nieuw Ensemble. Various concerts with trio aXolot.
2015
Team Recorder is launched! Presenting 21st Century Clogs at Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival. Premiere of Uit logeren (2+) at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ by Theater Fluup! Premieres of works by composers Konstantin Koukias, Cinzia Nistico, Igor Iofe, Felipe Ignacio Noriega. Trio aXolot come first in the ORDA Professional Ensemble Competiton and win the contemporary music prize. Various concerts of NL and Germany with trio aXolot and duo nasa.
2014
21st Century Clogs at the NEU/NOW Festival, Glasgow. Concerto for recorder and shakuhachi by Igor Iofe and Nieuw Ensemble. Music-theatre work The Call in Amsterdam Fringe Festival. Premiere and NL/Germany tour of Im Quadrat by Trio aXolot and Cammy Mai Tran. Production De Klankstoomboot with Altas Ensemble and Felipe Ignacio Noriega. Concerts at Oerol Festival with Leeuwenhart. Various concerts with trio aXolot, Project 128 and duo nasa.
2013
Graduated Master of Music, cum laude from Conservatorium van Amsterdam. 21st Century Clogs tour of the UK including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Recording works by James Tenney with Trio Scordatura. Concert tours with trio aXolot and performances on Radio 4 and Virus radio/TV. Concerts in Stockholm, Sweden with ake.taki. Premiere of Project 128. Concerts with duo nasa and Rapid Lemon. Residency at STEIM Amsterdam.
2012
Music-theatre tour of We Are Golden with Veenfabriek and T.I.M.E. Solo performance of WRKSHP at Sonorities Festival, Belfast. Member of the Ligeti Academy with Asko|Schönberg. Forms 2 by James Tenney at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. Solo performances at the Berio Festival, Den Haag. Concerts with Trio aXolot, Amsterdam Collage Ensemble, and duo nasa.
2011
Solo performance of WRKSHP at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK. Premiere concert at Gaudeamus Muziekweek with Amsterdam Collage Ensemble. Noye’s Fludd by Benjamin Britten at KlankKleur Festival. Concerts with duo nasa around NL. Concert in Lausanne, Switzerland with PRIME Ensemble directed by Antonio Politano. Member of the Ligeti Academy with Asko|Schönberg.
2010
Graduated Bachelor of Music from Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Tour of 44 performances of Woestijnwind with Jeugdtheater Sonnevanck. Versailles in Duitsland with Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra. Creation of music-theatre works with composer Anthony Leigh Dunstan. Concerts with ake.taki.
2009 and earlier
Operas: Dido and Aenaes by Purcell, The Fairy Queen by Purcell, Die Zauberflöte by Mozart, Psyche by Matthew Locke, MEDEA by Tania Sikelanou.
Tutor at FolkWorld summer school from 2008-2014.
Concert tours with Joe Broughton’s Folk Ensemble. Concert tours with The Old Dance School and recording debut album Based on a True Story. Winner of various scholarships.
Graduated with Bachelor of Music (Hons) first class from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2007. Moved to Amsterdam in 2007.