April 2007

Bram Heemskerk is from Waddinxveen, Netherlands.

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinconcerto op.23 + other pieces for violin+ orchestra

Published: Apr. 4, 2007 at 10:50 AM
2 days ago I got a Naxos-cd from Hong Kong from Jon Frohnen with the violinconcerto of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst op.23 and, worldpremiererecording!!, the Concertino of Op.12 of Ernst for violin + orchestra and other pieces of Ernst for violin + orchestra.

I hope to hear those pieces ever in the concerthall or play them with an amateurorchestra once.

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skating in Austria + Netherlands

Published: Apr. 23, 2007 at 4:45 PM
Last modified: Apr. 23, 2007 at 4:47 PM

Here are some pictures from the wife of my collegue from skating on the Weissensee Austria

the real champ

The man of the sister of my collegue, my collegue, me , a friend from my collegue who let grow different sorts of roses

changing skates for shoes

Drinking something on the ice near a restaurant

Because they did not have normal nature ice, because of the climate change the temeprature is too often above 0 Celsius, they are building an artificial ice track of 4,7 km in Biddinghuizen in the Netherlands, the 1th of the world, because a normal artificial ice-oval is 400 m. Yesterday I have seen all the machinery digging for that track that will open in december.

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10 days of rehearsals + 5 days of concerts +7 minutes Henri Vieuxtemps

Published: Apr. 24, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Last modified: Apr. 24, 2007 at 11:22 AM

From monday 14 april till 24 april I had every day an orchestral rehearsal (combined with a normal 9-5 job). From 25 april till 29 april 5 days of concerts. Last weekend I had 2 rehaersal weekends of 2 orchestra's (14 and 15 april was also rehaersal weekend). So I missed 1 rehearsalweekend. The other weekend was from a good and serious and high level orchestra. I asked whether I could leave at 14.30, because a former Glazunovsoloist Helbertine

would play some of my favorite composer Henri Vieuxtemps, during 7 minutes (I gave her the music). But the committee was severe. I was not allowed to hear that, otherwise I was not allowed to play the concerts. But the conductor stopped not at 17.00 hour but at 16.00 hour, so I drove fast to the middaychamberconcert of Helbertine about 1 hour and entered the little synagogue just after the break. And she played with a pianist my favorite composer

Here again some photo's I made earlier when I was in the birthplace of Henri Vieuxtemps in Verviers, Belgium, Europe

2 glasses of Vieuxtemps beer

2 pigeons on the statue

1 strange man has put 2 Vieux Tempsbeer bottles on the statue

Henri Vieuxtemps leaning on a desk with his violin

map of Verviers in Belgium, Europe, where I was for those photo's, with places of the grave, the statue and the Rue Henri Vieuxtemps

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2 flyers for the 5 concerts

Published: Apr. 27, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Last modified: Apr. 27, 2007 at 11:09 AM

Here are 2 flyers for the 5 concerts of 2 of my 5 orchestra's this half year.
After this weekend my life will become quiet concerning playing concerts.

The soloist is a 2th violinist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestra http://www.rpho.nl/2006-2007/secties/orkest/musici.php#
The conductor is Hans Leenders www.hansleenders.com

The soloist Lucian Leonard Raiciof is the concertmaster of the Residentieorchestra in The Hague, see http://www.residentieorkest.nl/ro/index-orkestleden.htm and is like the conductor (a former 2th concertmaster of that orchestra)Alexandru Lascae www.lascae.com also born Rumania.
Both conductors conduct also professional orchestra's.

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