100 Notable alumni of
Amsterdam School of the Arts
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The Amsterdam School of the Arts is 593rd in the world, 222nd in Europe, and 8th in the Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Amsterdam School of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Paul Verhoeven
- Occupations
- television directorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch film director. His films are known for their graphic violence and sexual content, combined with social satire. After receiving attention for the TV series Floris in his native Netherlands, Verhoeven's breakthrough film was the romantic drama Turkish Delight (1973), starring frequent collaborator Rutger Hauer. Verhoeven later directed successful Dutch films including the period drama Keetje Tippel (1975), the war film Soldier of Orange (1977), the teen drama Spetters (1980) and the psychological thriller The Fourth Man (1983).
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Carel Struycken
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- photographerscreenwritertelevision actorstage actoractor
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Carel Struycken is a Dutch actor. He is known for playing the Giant/Fireman in the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017), the occasional guest role of Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1992), and the household butler Lurch in the 1990s Addams Family films. He also appeared in the films Gerald's Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019).
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Roger Cicero
- Years
- 1970-2016 (aged 46)
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Studied in 1991-1996
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu was a German jazz and pop musician.
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Caro Emerald
- Occupations
- recording artistjazz musiciansinger
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Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw, known for the music project Caro Emerald, and latterly The Jordan is a Dutch pop and jazz singer who mainly performs in English. Active since 2007, she rose to prominence in 2009 with debut single, "Back It Up". Follow-up single "A Night Like This" topped charts in the Netherlands.
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Jan de Bont
- Occupations
- photographerfilm directorfilm producerscreenwritercinematographer
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Jan de Bont is a Dutch former cinematographer, film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the action films Speed (1994) and Twister (1996). As a director of photography, de Bont also worked on numerous blockbusters and genre films, including Roar (1981), Cujo (1983), Flesh and Blood (1985), Die Hard (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), and Basic Instinct (1992).
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Urs Bühler
- Occupations
- musicianpianistopera singerguitarist
- Biography
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Urs Toni Bühler is a Swiss classically trained tenor. He is a member of the classical crossover group Il Divo, who have sold over 30 million copies worldwide discs.
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Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh
- Occupations
- television presentersingerrecord producerstage actorcomposer
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Coenraad Lodewijk Dirk "Coen" van Vrijberghe de Coningh was a Dutch actor, singer, composer, record producer and television presenter.
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Elise Schaap
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- actor
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Elise Schaap is a Dutch actress.
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Jelka van Houten
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- film actortelevision actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Jelline Floriska van Houten is a Dutch actress and singer. She has acted in Dutch films, musicals, and television series. She also played Sabine in the British TV series Fresh Meat.
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Bernard Haitink
- Occupations
- music directorconductorviolinistchoir director
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Bernard Johan Herman Haitink was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to London, as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967 to 1979, music director at Glyndebourne Opera from 1978 to 1988 and of the Royal Opera House from 1987 to 2002, when he became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Finally, he was principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010. The focus of his prolific recording was classical symphonies and orchestral works, but he also conducted operas. He conducted 90 concerts at The Proms in London, the last on 3 September 2019 with the Vienna Philharmonic. His awards include Grammy Awards and the 2015 Gramophone Award for his lifetime achievements.
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Leonie ter Braak
- Occupations
- presenteractortelevision presentermodeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Leonie ter Braak is a Dutch television presenter and actress. She is known for presenting several television shows, including the talk show HLF8. She also played a role in the 2020 film The Marriage Escape, the 2022 film De Tatta's and the 2023 film De Tatta's 2.
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Tom Gaebel
- Occupations
- singerbandleadercomposerjazz musicianpianist
- Biography
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Tom Gaebel is a German singer and leader of a big band named after himself. He changed the spelling of his last name, omitting the umlaut. In addition to singing and arranging, Gaebel writes lyrics in English.
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Leon de Winter
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwritercolumnistfilm directorwriter
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Leon de Winter is a Dutch novelist and columnist.
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Henk Poort
- Occupations
- musicianfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Henk Poort is a Dutch actor and singer, who mainly plays in operas and musicals.
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Bilal Wahib
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Studied in 2017
- Occupations
- rapperactorfilm actorsingertelevision actor
- Biography
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Bilal El Mehdi Wahib is a Dutch actor, singer and rapper from Amsterdam. He has appeared in several Dutch films and series such as Nieuwe buren, SpangaS, Mocro Maffia and Commando's and films Layla M., De Held, De libi and Paradise Drifters, portrayed mainly in ethnic roles. In 2020, he won the Golden Calf for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Paradise Drifters in the role of Yousef. He is also known for his singles "Tigers" and "501", which both peaked at number three on the Dutch Top 40 chart while topping the Dutch Single Top 100 chart.
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Wibi Soerjadi
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Wibi Soerjadi is a Dutch concert pianist and composer.
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Robby Müller
- Occupations
- photographerfilmmakercinematographer
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Robby Müller, NSC, BVK, was a Dutch cinematographer. Known for his use of natural light and minimalist imagery, Müller first gained recognition for his contributions to West German cinema through his acclaimed collaborations with Wim Wenders.
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Dick Maas
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- film directorfilm producerscreenwritermanufacturercomposer
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Dirk Herman Willem Maas is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer.
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Cox Habbema
- Occupations
- film actoractorstage actordirectortelevision actor
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Cornelia "Cox" Habbema was a Dutch film and television actress. From 1968 to 1984, she played in films for the East-German filmproduction DEFA. She was married to the actor Eberhard Esche.
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Ton Koopman
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- musicologistcomposerharpsichordistuniversity teacherpianist
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Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman is a Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, primarily known for being the founder and director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.
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Masaaki Suzuki
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- organistharpsichordistchoir directorconductorcomposer
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Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
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Martin Koolhoven
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- screenwriterwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Martinus Wouter "Martin" Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Internationally he is most known for Schnitzel Paradise (2005), Winter in Wartime (2008) and Brimstone (2016), which was his first film in English. It was released in 2017, after it premiered in the competition of the Venice Film Festival in 2016.
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Frans Brüggen
- Occupations
- university teacherconductormusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Franciscus Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.
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Frieda Belinfante
- Occupations
- resistance fightercellistconductor
- Biography
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Frieda Belinfante was a Dutch cellist, philharmonic conductor, a prominent lesbian, and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. After the war, Belinfante emigrated to the United States and continued her career in music. She was the founding artistic director and conductor of the Orange County Philharmonic.
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Tol Hansse
- Occupations
- cabaret performersinger-songwritercomposertrumpeterpainter
- Biography
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Tol Hansse was a Dutch singer and musician. He was the son of cabaret artist Jacques van Tol. Because of his father's history of collaboration during World War II he changed his name. Hansse played trumpet accompanying Tom Manders, and was in the rock band The Sharks with Clous van Mechelen. He had a modestly successful career as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s. Van Mechelen wrote the music for his biggest hit, "Big City" (1978), still considered a classic song about Amsterdam. He never rivaled the success of that song again, and died of lung cancer in Heerhugowaard in 2002.
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Lena Kovačević
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- composermusician
- Biography
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Lena Kovačević is a Serbian singer. She is the daughter of Dušan Kovačević. Kovačević debuted in her father's 2003 movie The Professional, where she performed the song "Pada vlada" alongside Bajaga i Instruktori.
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Reinbert de Leeuw
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Lambertus Reiner "Reinbert" de Leeuw was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer.
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Pim de la Parra
- Occupations
- film directorfilm produceractorscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Pim de la Parra was a Surinamese-Dutch film director.
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Cristina Deutekom
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Cristina Deutekom was a Dutch operatic coloratura soprano.
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Edo de Waart
- Occupations
- pianistoboistconductor
- Biography
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Edo de Waart is a Dutch retired conductor. He is Music Director Laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. De Waart is the former music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (2016-2019), chief conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic (2011-2016) and Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (2010-2014).
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Frans Weisz
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- screenwritertelevision directordirectorfilm directortheatrical director
- Biography
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Frans Weisz is a Dutch film director. He has directed more than 30 films since 1964. His 1975 film Red Sien was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. His film Havinck was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 1993 film The Betrayed was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Isabelle van Keulen
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Isabelle van Keulen is a Dutch violinist and violist, performing principally as a chamber musician but also as a concert violist. She founded the Isos Quartet in 1995. For more than 20 years, she collaborated with the pianist Ronald Brautigam and the mezzo-soprano singer Christianne Stotijn. In 2012, she became an educator at the Lucerne School of Music. Since 2017, she has been artistic director at Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss in Germany.
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Horacio Franco
- Occupations
- musicianconductor
- Biography
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Horacio Franco is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. Franco has performed many genres of music, from medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music—including Latin American colonial music—to contemporary, folkloric, and popular styles.
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Lucie Horsch
- Occupations
- recorder player
- Biography
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Lucie Horsch is a Dutch recorder player.
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Henriëtte Bosmans
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer and pianist.
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Richard Hageman
- Occupations
- film score composerpianistconductorfilm actor
- Biography
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Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer.
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Stephan Brenninkmeijer
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producerfilm editor
- Biography
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Stephan Brenninkmeijer is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Wim Henderickx
- Occupations
- university teachermusiciancomposerconductor
- Biography
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Wim Henderickx was a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. He was composer in residence at Muziektheater Transparant and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, writing operas and other stage works. His music was influenced by oriental music and philosophy. He taught composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
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Willem van Otterloo
- Occupations
- composercellistconductor
- Biography
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Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.
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Liza Ferschtman
- Occupations
- violinistcellist
- Biography
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Liza Ferschtman is a Dutch classical violinist who appears internationally, both as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music. She received the Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2006 and has directed the Delft Chamber Music Festival since 2007.
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Michelle Courtens
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- singercellist
- Biography
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Michelle Courtens, performing as Michelle, is a Dutch singer, who is known from her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001.
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Leo Smit
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Leopold "Leo" Smit was a Dutch composer, murdered during The Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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Sacha Polak
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Sacha Polak is a Dutch film director.
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Rudolf Koelman
- Occupations
- professormusic educatorviolinistpedagogueperforming artist
- Biography
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Rudolf Koelman is a Dutch violinist and is professor for violin at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) in Switzerland.
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Noa Wildschut
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Noa Wildschut is a Dutch concert violinist.
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Stephen West
- Occupations
- knitterfashion designer
- Biography
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Stephen West is an American knitter, fashion designer, educator, and author known for his knitting patterns and strong use of color. After beginning to publish his own patterns in 2009 on sites like Knitty and Ravelry, West has also published a number of knitting books under his design brand Westknits. He owns a yarn store in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and in 2019 he launched a yarn brand called West Wool with his business partner Malia Mae Joseph.
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Piet Kee
- Occupations
- composerorganistmusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Pieter William Kee was a Dutch organist and composer.
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Svitlana Azarova
- Occupations
- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Svitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer of contemporary classical music, originally from the Ukrainian SSR.
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Rudolf Jansen
- Occupations
- organistmusicianpianist
- Biography
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Rudolf Jansen was a Dutch pianist who focused on Lied accompaniment and chamber music, touring the world. He accompanied singers including Elly Ameling, Barbara Bonney, Peter Schreier and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Jansen taught at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Musikhochschule Nürnberg, and gave masterclasses worldwide.
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Theo Loevendie
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Johan Theodorus Loevendie is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.
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Jean Dulieu
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writercomics artistviolinist
- Biography
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Jan van Oort was a Dutch children's book writer and comic strip cartoonist, working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ dyljø]). He is known for his creation of Paulus the woodgnome.
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Paul van Kempen
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Paul van Kempen was a Dutch conductor.
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Lenneke Ruiten
- Occupations
- opera singerperforming artist
- Biography
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Lenneke Ruiten is a Dutch soprano. Ruiten studied at the Music Conservatory in Alkmaar and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, and at the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden bei Wien near Vienna.
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Richard Hol
- Occupations
- composerpianistorganistconductor
- Biography
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Richard Hol (23 July 1825, in Amsterdam – 14 May 1904, in Utrecht) was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the more revolutionary music of Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner.
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Philippe Giusiano
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Philippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.
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Erik Bosgraaf
- Occupations
- musicologistflautist
- Biography
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Erik Bosgraaf is a Dutch recorder player and musicologist.
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Tineke Postma
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Studied in 1996-2003
- Occupations
- composerjazz saxophonist
- Biography
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Tineke Postma is a Dutch jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Leo van Doeselaar
- Occupations
- organistpianistconductor
- Biography
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Leo van Doeselaar is a Dutch classical organist and conductor.
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Willem Andriessen
- Occupations
- music educatorconductorcomposeruniversity teacherpianist
- Biography
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Willem Andriessen was a Dutch pianist and composer. His compositional output was small due to the demands of performance and teaching, but he was nonetheless awarded a number of compositional prizes in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Merlijn Twaalfhoven
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- composerpolitician
- Biography
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Merlijn Twaalfhoven is a Dutch composer. He graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2003. Twaalfhoven is internationally active in creating innovative projects and writing new music for orchestras, choirs and chamber music groups. He collaborated with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the Dutch National Ballet and Springdance festival, among many others. With his non profit organization La Vie Sur Terre he frequently produces large scale projects on location with local artists and musicians, for example in Cyprus, Japan, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Syria, and Central Europe. Twaalfhoven is a member of the Alpbach Laxenburg Group. He was a speaker about the role of arts in conflict areas at Aspen Institute Washington and Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO. In 2014 and 2015, Merlijn Twaalfhoven created "Bridging The Divide", a conversation with Tomáš Sedláček and Gloria Benedikt, linking economics and the irrational, positioning artists as agents of change. He was co-founder of Citizen Artist Incubator together with Gloria Benedikt, which was funded by Creative Europe and brought together 30 artists in two editions. The 2016 of Citizen Artist Incubator took place at IIASA. Twaalfhoven was a speaker about the role of arts in conflict areas at Aspen Institute Washington, TEDx Amsterdam, the European Forum on Culture 2013, 2016 and Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A. In 2017 he founded the Turn Club.
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Maya Lavelle
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Maya Lavelle is an international singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and music video producer. She grew up in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, she was born in Belgrade, Serbia and currently resides in London, United Kingdom.
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Bart Schneemann
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- conductoroboist
- Biography
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Bart Schneemann is a Dutch oboist, conductor, teacher and artistic director for the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. In 1977 he graduated from the Conservatory in Amsterdam. From 1976 to 1996, he was the first chair oboist in the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He retired from playing in the orchestra to put all his time towards his solo career and his activities in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Schneemann plays a wide repertoire in various formations, ranging from older music (on modern oboe and classical/baroque oboe) to contemporary music. Many composers have written music especially for him, including Tristan Keuris, Wolfgang Rihm, John Zorn, Gia Kantsjeli, Kevin Volans, George Crumb, György Kurtág and Jacob ter Veldhuis. He performed solos in various orchestras conducted by, among others: Valeri Gergiev, Edo de Waart, Ernest Bour, Lev Markiz, Frans Brüggen, Roy Goodman and Ton Koopman. Schneeman also conducted the National Youth Orchestra, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Brabant Orchestra and the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, conductor and in his capacity in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, he is often asked for stage performances in all kinds of festivals and events worldwide. Schneemann is a professor at Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
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Kees Bakels
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Kees Bakels is a Dutch conductor.
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Tara Bouman
- Occupations
- clarinetist
- Biography
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Tara Bouman is a Dutch clarinetist.
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Susanne Alt
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Susanne Alt is a German jazz saxophone player and composer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Gied Jaspars
- Occupations
- television producer
- Biography
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Gied Jaspars was a Dutch television maker who gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s making progressive and controversial TV shows for the VPRO; he is well known for his collaboration with writer and director Wim T. Schippers. After he left the television and film industry he started a career as a business man; throughout his career he had a great interest in nature, expressed in narrative, meditative reflections in television and radio series which were later bundled as a single collection.
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Harry Sparnaay
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorwind instrument playerclarinetistmusicologist
- Biography
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Harry Sparnaay was a noted Dutch bass clarinetist, composer, and teacher.
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Julia Culp
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Julia Bertha Culp, the "Dutch nightingale", was an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano in the years 1901–1919.
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Kees Wieringa
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Kees Wieringa is a Dutch pianist, composer, writer and cultural entrepreneur. His mission is to inspire and connect people through art and culture. He came to prominence for his performances of the Dutch composers Jakob van Domselaer, Daniel Ruyneman and Simeon ten Holt.
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Ralph van Raat
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- musicianpianist
- Biography
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Ralph van Raat is a Dutch classical pianist.
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Ilse Huizinga
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Ilse Huizinga is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.
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Gerard Hengeveld
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Gerard Hengeveld was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin sonata, and a sonata for cello. Hengeveld was an able interpreter and performer of the music of Bach for piano and harpsichord. He gave regular concerts in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Some of his concerts were captured on record. Hengeveld was a professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Amongst his students was Dutch pianist and musicologist Frans Bouwman.
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Marco Blaauw
- Occupations
- trumpetermusicianperforming artist
- Biography
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Marco Blaauw is a Dutch trumpet soloist known for his work in the field of new music and with Cologne-based contemporary music group Ensemble Musikfabrik. He plays a double bell trumpet, an invention that has allowed for numerous new compositions for trumpet, including those by Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winner, Rebecca Saunders. Blaauw is a consistent faculty member at the Darmstadt Summer Course, the Stockhausen Courses Kürten, the Lucerne Festival, and the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar.
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Uxía Martínez Botana
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Uxía Martínez Botana is a Spanish double bass player.
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Tobias Delius
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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Tobias Delius is a tenor saxophonist and clarinettist.
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Jasper Wolf
- Born in
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Netherlands - Occupations
- cinematographer
- Biography
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Jasper Wolf, NSC, is a Dutch cinematographer. He is best known for his work on Monos, Instinct, Paradise Drifters, and Code Blue.
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Chiel Meijering
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Michael Maria "Chiel" Meijering is a Dutch composer. He studied composition with Ton de Leeuw, percussion with Jan Labordus and Jan Pustjens, and piano at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He composed over 1000 works.
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Haukur Tómasson
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Haukur Tómasson is an Icelandic composer. He has a master's degree from the University of California, San Diego. He has also attended the Reykjavík College of Music, the Cologne University for Music and the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam.
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Maarten Altena
- Occupations
- composerjazz musicianperforming artist
- Biography
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Maarten van Regteren Altena is a Dutch composer and contrabassist. Altena attended the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (he studied contrabass) and graduated in 1968. Between 1980 and 1985, he studied composition with Robert Heppener.
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Sim Gokkes
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Simon Gokkes (21 March 1897 in Amsterdam – 5 February 1943 in Auschwitz) was a Dutch-Jewish composer.
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Esra Dalfidan
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Esra Dalfidan is a Turkish-German jazz singer.
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Jan Mul
- Occupations
- composerorganist
- Biography
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Jan Mul was a Dutch composer, mainly of church music. He was born in Haarlem and studied with Sem Dresden at the Amsterdam Conservatory; Mul orchestrated Dresden's opera Francois Villon after the composer's death.
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Ali Cherri
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Graduated with master's degree in performing arts
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producercinematographerscreenwriterfilm editor
- Biography
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Ali Cherri is a Lebanese artist working in video and installation. His varied practice focuses on documenting and presenting heritage and environment in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries.
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Aapo Häkkinen
- Occupations
- harpsichordistmusicianconductor
- Biography
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Aapo Häkkinen is a Finnish harpsichordist, clavichordist and organist.
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Robert Heppener
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Robert Heppener, also known as Bob Heppener, was a Dutch composer. He was among the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century.
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Phia Berghout
- Occupations
- harpistmusician
- Biography
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Sophia Rosa Berghout was a Dutch harpist. Her obituary in The Independent called her "arguably the most influential harpist this century".
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Jan Tomasz Adamus
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Jan Tomasz Adamus is a Polish conductor, organist, chamber musician, recording artist and music administrator. At present, Adamus serves as general and artistic director of the Kraków early music orchestra and mixed symphonic choir Capella Cracoviensis (since 2008). Adamus recorded a number of solo CD's including as conductor; with Baroque, Classical and Romantic church music – also playing different historical organs in Silesia. He serves as the artistic director of the International Bach Festival in Świdnica.
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Danniel Danniel
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Danniel Danniel was an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film editor. He lived in the Netherlands since 1980. He died in the morning of 4 May 2017 in Amsterdam.
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Anna Cramer
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Anna M. Cramer was a Dutch composer.
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Arthur Arnold
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Arthur Arnold is a Dutch orchestra conductor.
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Signe Tollefsen
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- songwritersinger-songwriterguitaristsinger
- Biography
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Signe Tollefsen /ˈsɪɡnə ˈtɒləfsən/ is an American–Dutch singer-songwriter, settled in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her music has been described as folk rock.
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Henri Albers
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Henri Albers, born Johan Hendrik Albers, was a Dutch-born opera singer who later became a French citizen. He sang leading baritone roles in an international career that spanned 37 years and was a prominent singer at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and the Opéra-Comique in Paris, which was his base from 1900 until his death. He also sang in 36 performances with the Metropolitan Opera company from 1898 to 1899. He made many recordings for Pathé Records and specialised in the heavier baritone and basso cantante repertoire.
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Benedict Silberman
- Occupations
- composerconductor
- Biography
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Benedict Silberman, originally Boruch Hirsch-Benedigton Silberman, was a Dutch composer and conductor of Austrian Jewish descent.
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Evrim Demirel
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Evrim Demirel is a Turkish composer and jazz pianist.
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Bertha Frensel Wegener
- Occupations
- composersingermusic educator
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Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman was a Dutch composer and music educator.
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Peter Bree
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- radio personalityoboist
- Biography
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Peter Bree is a Dutch oboist and broadcaster. He was born in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands.
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Eddy van der Maarel
- Years
- 1934-2021 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- botanistwritertranslatoruniversity teacherpianist
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Evert "Eddy" van der Maarel was a Dutch ecologist. He spent most of his career as professor of ecological botany at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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Annemiek Padt-Jansen
- Occupations
- harpistpolitician
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Anna Maria Catharina "Annemiek" Padt-Jansen was a Dutch harpist and politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party from June 1969 until 10 May 1971 and again from 14 March 1972 until 7 December 1972. She was also a member of the board of the public broadcasting association VARA. She was a sister of the stand-up comedian Fons Jansen.
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Jason Alder
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United States - Occupations
- musicianmusic educatoraudio engineer
- Biography
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Jason Alder is an American-born clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and saxophonist. He is best known for his work in contemporary music, free improvisation, and electro-acoustic music.
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Michael Penha
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Michel Penha was a director and cellist. He played with the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1920 to 1925.
