Meet the Bassoon Class (minus two...) of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. The majority are Bram van Sambeek 's students, fair to say🙃. Care to be part of this amazing group of people shaping the Future of Bassoon? The conservatoire has an Open Day on Nov. 29th www.koncon.nl/en/openday? #bassoon

✨Video Release! ✨ Here is the beginning of the Preludium in e minor by Nicolaus Bruhns. It is said that we thank this score to Bruhns’s contemporary J.S. Bach. To be heard on our new album ORGANISMS released next month @pentatonemusic.bsky.social ✨🎥✨ Watch the full video here youtu.be/Gb9AV6XOyvE

Het gezinnetje (nee, niet op de foto…) en ik genieten enorm van Tokyo. Morgen laatste dag…: tips voor Kamakura, Hokkaido, Nagano mountains, Kyoto, Naoshima and (de buurt van) Osaka zijn nog welkom. 🙃✨🙏🏼 PS Ik vlieg (soms) maar betaal daar wel fatsoenlijk ‘belasting’ voor… zie 35procent.nl

The future of Chamber Music!

Dank @calefax.bsky.social en #RoxanVanIperen #carre

Carré — Unforgettable! The sing-along of #KinanAzmeh 's 'Airports' has been the sound track of our project with #RoxaneVanIperen. 🙏 . . #rietkwintet #reedquintet

Een prachtvoorstelling met Roxane van Iperen en Calefax, nog op 9 en 11 mei in Dordrecht (Kunstmin) en Amsterdam — ons debuut in Carré! Van Iperen vertelt indringend, informatief én soms verrassend luchtig over de rol van muziek in tijden van conflict en onderdrukking. calefax.nl/projects/rox...

Zo leuk dat @npoklassiek.nl een hele uitzending van #Diskotabel wil besteden aan één van mijn lievelingswerken: Die Kunst der Fuge. En dat @tinekesteenbrink erbij was✨ Zondag 16.30 👀 detail van ‘Contraprodunctus XIV’ van @pascalmoehlmann www.npoklassiek.nl/programmas/d...

een belediging van het boerenverstand, Van der Plas. Het is geen 1 april meer…

Splendid place for my morning warm-up😻: Carré Amsterdam. Recording a shout out video for the @calefax.bsky.social project with #RoxaneVanIperen calefax.nl/projects/rox... #calefax #bassoon #reedquimtet #tivolivredenburg

Calefax Composer Competition joins forces with Alba Rosa Viëtor. More awards, bigger audiences, live final! #Calefax #ReedQuintet @akropolis5tet.bsky.social

Partners in crime! Need your help. Next month I will have the honour to chat with @tinekesteenbrink.bsky.social on Dutch national radio about one of my musical passions: JS Bach's 'Art of Fugue'. Many different recordings will be aired — please help me find unknown gems... which is your favourite!?

Day 12 of 12 in USA —Leaving the USA with pain. In shock about the lawlessness of the Chump/Musk story. Have met so many great people, but the state of politics makes me wonder if we’ll ever return — the country has become a 'rogue state' overnight. But... great breakfast at #SwanOysterDepot

Day 11 of 12 in USA BIS —Last concert of the tour: Palo Alto! Challenging acoustics but as always a great, attentive audience. Sweet compliment from an audience member — our outfit inspires her to paint her house in exactly these colours. Suits by aarden.space/ #calefax #joukoosterhof

Day 11 of 12 in USA —Free morning: Almost spring time (!) in the Hayes St oasis. Returning my Timbuk2 bag to the shop where I bought it in 2010. Used it almost daily ever since… replace it for a new one today, with 20% discount for recycling the old bag. Kudos for #timbuk2.

An urgent reminder to buy less stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Day 10 of 12 in USA —SF *morning: anti Maga / Musk protests at the Civic Center Plaza. *afternoon: Herbst.., what a gorgeous hall to perform! *eve: so good to meet old friends Kate and Dan. * late: joining them in a Waymo ride. (Now this is an AUTOmobile — finally!) #calefax #herbsttheater #waymo

Day 9 of 12 in USA —returning to Walnut Creek. Such a warm audience! Presenting a mixed European / US program, responding with a heartfelt applause and cheers when asked "because we still love each other, don't we?" 🔥💛 #leshercenter #reedquintet #calefax

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

USA day 8 of 12. —Long travel day to the West coast. Up 5.30 am to clean the B&B and drive to 2 hrs Boston for the 7hrs flight to SF. Pic 1 the ugliest car in the world without the now popular sticker (Pic 2). Fantastic Vietnamese food at Hoi An 1608 with former CMSF director Daniel Levenstein.

USA day 7 of 12. —Last day at Wesleyan. Working again with the students of Neely Bruce such a great host! (pic 2 with @raafhekkema.bsky.social) Buying some Wesleyan merch for the loved ones at home. (Too bad, the misspell of Wesly 🙈)

USA day 6 of 12. —Concert time! Preceded by a lovely session with some students and locals from the Wesleyan orchestra. Great Connecticut community! All conversations still dominated by the Chump situation. One wonders: how can the USA remain one nation?

USA day 5 of 12. —Great to see how beloved the amazing Neely Bruce is among students and staff @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Had a nice session with his composition class. Left on this picture with some of his students. #reedquintet #calefax #wesleyan

New pics! And... in 40 weeks today we'll turn 40. 😀 #calefax #reedquintet #joukoosterhof

USA day 4 of 12. —8 hour road trip from DC to CT for a three day residency @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Visiting friends on the way in New Jersey. In the meanwhile the Chump news keeps amazing (or not?)… ‘make America plastic again’ www.dezeen.com/2025/02/11/t...

USA day 3 of 12. —Concert time! A truly dedicated crowd in our National Gallery of Art show (DC). Lovely to see how much they appreciate our rendition of Henriette Bosmans's 'Quartet'. Slightly depressed after talking afterwards to dear musician friends facing the consequences of the Chump madness.

USA day 2 of 12*BIS. — Last tickets for NSO and Thibaudet in the @kennedycenter.bsky.social . A splendid complex of multiple venues and an incredible rich programming. This afternoon's news: president Chump suggest the chair of the board to be replaced by... himself 🙈. The concert was gorgeous.

USA Day 2 of 12. — Washington is surprisingly quiet, even for a Saturday. People holding their breath? Good rehearsal this morning, then time to bike up Capitol Hill and see the Hirshhorn, tonight Thibaudet @kennedycenter.bsky.social Ready for tomorrow’s concert at the National Gallery. #calefax

USA day 1 of 12. — All seems quiet in Washington DC. But talking to lovely folks in the hotel lobby shows fear and despair. “You don’t need to worry sir, because the colour of your skin. But I fear the future for my kids. Education is poor and will be poorer, books will be replaced by social media.”

“Netanyahu on his way to Washington.” An excellent opportunity for the US to show their respect for international law and order. 🙈 www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...

So far for online Free Speech

EEN BELANGRIJKE OVERWINNING VOOR ONZE NATUUR! De overheid moet meteen aan de slag om de stikstofuitstoot te verminderen in de meest kwetsbare natuur. De rechtbank heeft vastgesteld dat de natuur ernstig is verslechterd en dat de overheid zich aan haar eigen wet moet houden.

Hey friends over the pond, I'm feeling you. For your comfort, I'm hopping over with Calefax in two weeks. Hope to see you in DC, Middletown CT or the Bay area. #bassoon #reedquintet

This is my first… and might well be my last post — I’m here merely to follow others. And to see how things evolve in big tech. *Can we make a change?* Today there are almost 27M users. Here is a site that shows in near real time the growth of the platform: bcounter.nat.vg