100 Notable alumni of
Amsterdam School of the Arts
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The Amsterdam School of the Arts is 587th in the world, 213th 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
- film actorfilm producertelevision directorscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch filmmaker. His blending of graphic violence and sexual content with social satire is a trademark of both his drama and science fiction films. After receiving attention for the TV series Floris in his native Netherlands, Verhoeven got his film breakthrough with the romantic drama Turkish Delight (1973), starring frequent collaborator Rutger Hauer. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and later received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. 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
- Occupations
- composeractorstage actortelevision actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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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
- jazz musiciansinger
- Biography
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Roger Marcel Cicero Ciceu was a German jazz and pop musician.
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Caro Emerald
- Occupations
- singerjazz musicianrecording artist
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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
- directorcinematographerscreenwriterfilm producerfilm director
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Jan de Bont is a Dutch retired cinematographer, director and film producer. He is best known for directing the films Speed (1994) and Twister (1996). As a director of photography, de Bont also worked on numerous blockbusters and genre films, including Roar, Cujo, Flesh and Blood, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 3, and Basic Instinct.
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Urs Bühler
- Occupations
- opera singerpianistmusicianguitarist
- 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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Elise Schaap
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Elise Schaap is a Dutch actress.
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Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh
- Occupations
- television actoractorcomposerstage actorrecord producer
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Coenraad Lodewijk Dirk "Coen" van Vrijberghe de Coningh was a Dutch actor, musician, composer, record producer and television presenter.
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Jelka van Houten
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- television actorfilm actoractorsinger
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Jelline Floriska van Houten is a Dutch actress. 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
- conductormusic directorchoir directorviolinist
- Biography
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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
- television actormodeltelevision presenteractorpresenter
- 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
- jazz musiciancomposerbandleadersingersongwriter
- 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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Henk Poort
- Occupations
- film actormusiciantelevision 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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Leon de Winter
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorcolumnistscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Leon de Winter is a Dutch writer and columnist.
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Bilal Wahib
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Studied in 2017
- Occupations
- film actorrappertelevision actor
- Biography
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Bilal El Mehdi Wahib is a Dutch actor, singer and rapper. He has appeared in several Dutch films and series like 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.
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Wibi Soerjadi
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Wibi Soerjadi is a Dutch concert pianist and composer.
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Robby Müller
- Occupations
- filmmakerphotographercinematographer
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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
- Occupations
- television directorcomposermanufacturerscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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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
- television actorstage actortheatrical directorsingertelevision presenter
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- conductorcomposerharpsichordistuniversity teacherchoir director
- Biography
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Antonius Gerhardus Michael Koopman, known professionally as 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
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerconductorchoir directorharpsichordist
- Biography
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Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and 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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- film directorwriterscreenwriteractor
- 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 teacherconductormusicianmusic teachermusicologist
- 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 fighterconductorcellist
- 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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Reinbert de Leeuw
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teachercomposerconductormusic teacher
- Biography
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Lambertus Reiner "Reinbert" de Leeuw was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer.
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Tol Hansse
- Occupations
- trumpetercomposersinger-songwritercabaret performersinger
- 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
- musiciancomposer
- 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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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
- pianistconductoroboist
- Biography
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Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor. He is Music Director Laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. De Waart is the former chief conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic (2011-2016), Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (2010-2014), and music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (2016-2019).
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Frans Weisz
- Occupations
- theatrical directorfilm directordirectortelevision directorscreenwriter
- 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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Pim de la Parra
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractordirector
- Biography
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Pim de la Parra is a Surinamese-Dutch film director.
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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
- conductormusician
- Biography
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Horacio Franco is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. He studied at the National Conservatory in Mexico City and later at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, with Marijke Miessen and Walter van Hauwe. 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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Richard Hageman
- Occupations
- conductorpianistfilm score composerfilm actor
- Biography
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Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer.
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Henriëtte Bosmans
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer and pianist.
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Wim Henderickx
- Occupations
- conductorcomposermusicianuniversity teacher
- 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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Stephan Brenninkmeijer
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriterfilm editorfilm producer
- Biography
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Stephan Brenninkmeijer is a Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Willem van Otterloo
- Occupations
- composerconductorcellist
- Biography
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Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.
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Liza Ferschtman
- Occupations
- cellistviolinist
- 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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Leo Smit
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- pianistcomposer
- 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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Michelle Courtens
- Occupations
- cellistsinger
- 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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Sacha Polak
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Sacha Polak is a Dutch film director.
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Rudolf Koelman
- Occupations
- violinistmusic teacherprofessorperforming artistpedagogue
- 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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Piet Kee
- Occupations
- musicologistorganistcomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Pieter William Kee was a Dutch organist and composer.
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Stephen West
- Occupations
- fashion designerknitter
- 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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Svitlana Azarova
- Occupations
- composer
- 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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Theo Loevendie
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
- Biography
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Johan Theodorus Loevendie is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.
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Jean Dulieu
- Occupations
- comics artistchildren's writerwriterviolinist
- 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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Lenneke Ruiten
- Occupations
- performing artistopera singer
- 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
- conductororganistpianistcomposer
- 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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Erik Bosgraaf
- Occupations
- flautistmusicologist
- Biography
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Erik Bosgraaf is a Dutch recorder player and musicologist.
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Philippe Giusiano
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Philippe Giusiano is a French classical pianist.
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Tineke Postma
- Enrolled in the Amsterdam School of the Arts
- Studied in 1996-2003
- Occupations
- jazz saxophonistcomposer
- Biography
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Tineke Postma is a Dutch jazz saxophonist.
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Leo van Doeselaar
- Occupations
- pianistorganistconductor
- Biography
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Leo van Doeselaar is a Dutch classical organist and conductor.
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Willem Andriessen
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teachercomposerconductormusic teacher
- 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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Maya Lavelle
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Maya Lavelle is an international singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and music video producer of Dutch nationality, grew up in Amsterdam, lived in Los Angeles and now residing in London, United Kingdom.
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Merlijn Twaalfhoven
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- composer
- 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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Rudolf Jansen
- Occupations
- pianistorganist
- Biography
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Rudolf Jansen was a Dutch pianist who focused on Lied accompaniment and chamber music, touring in 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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Kees Bakels
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Kees Bakels is a Dutch conductor.
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Bart Schneemann
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- oboistconductor
- 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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Harry Sparnaay
- Occupations
- clarinetistwind instrument playermusic teachercomposermusicologist
- Biography
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Harry Sparnaay was a noted Dutch bass clarinetist, composer, and teacher.
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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
- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
- 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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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 67)
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- 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 46)
- Occupations
- pianistmusician
- Biography
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Ralph van Raat is a Dutch classical pianist.
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Ilse Huizinga
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansinger
- Biography
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Ilse Huizinga is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.
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Gerard Hengeveld
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- 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
- performing artistmusiciantrumpeter
- 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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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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Tobias Delius
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
- Biography
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Tobias Delius is a tenor saxophonist and clarinettist.
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Uxía Martínez Botana
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 36)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Uxía Martínez Botana is a Spanish double bass player.
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Chiel Meijering
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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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.
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Maarten Altena
- Occupations
- performing artistjazz musiciancomposer
- 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
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Simon Gokkes (21 March 1897, Amsterdam – 5 February 1943, Auschwitz) was a Dutch-Jewish composer.
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Esra Dalfidan
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansinger
- Biography
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Esra Dalfidan is a Turkish-German jazz singer.
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Jan Mul
- Occupations
- organistcomposer
- 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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Phia Berghout
- Occupations
- musicianharpist
- 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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Anna Cramer
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Anna M. Cramer was a Dutch composer.
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Danniel Danniel
- Occupations
- film editorfilm directorscreenwriter
- 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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Jan Tomasz Adamus
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- 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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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 43)
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersongwritersingerguitarist
- 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
- Biography
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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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Carolina Estrada
- Occupations
- researcherpianist
- Biography
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Carolina Estrada y Bascunana is a Spanish pianist who has a career as a soloist, recitalist and chamber music partner in Europe, Asia and Australia.
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Benedict Silberman
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- 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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Bertha Frensel Wegener
- Occupations
- music teachersingercomposer
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Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman was a Dutch composer and music educator.
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Evrim Demirel
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
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Evrim Demirel is a Turkish composer and jazz pianist.
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Peter Bree
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- oboistradio personality
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Peter Bree is a Dutch oboist and radio host. He was born in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands.
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Annemiek Padt-Jansen
- Occupations
- politicianharpist
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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 [ nl].
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Eddy van der Maarel
- Years
- 1934-2021 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- university teachertranslatorwriterbotanistecologist
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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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Marianne Smit
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- harpist
- Biography
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Marianne Smit is a Dutch harpist.
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Jason Alder
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United States - Occupations
- music teachermusicianaudio engineer
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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.
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Juan González-Castelao
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- conductormusicologist
- Biography
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Juan González-Castelao is a Spanish Musicologist, Translator, Arts Manager and Conductor
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Guy Sion
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- saxophonist
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Guy Sion is an Israeli jazz saxophonist, residing in Oslo, Norway.
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Jeanne Jomelli
- Years
- 1879-1932 (aged 53)
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Jeanne Jomelli was a Dutch soprano opera singer, concert singer, and music educator.
