October 12, 2008 - welcome
check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAy3t-inOe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbPaod5k4ZU
a personal statement
I care for music because there are no arguments, no proof, no rules. There ís good and bad, though. I'd like the electric guitar to become an instrument as grown up as, say, a piano: used in all kinds of music on all levels. From fun at home to a solo recital in a concert hall. Mmm is that already the case? Well, let's play more composed -electric contemporary classical- music, western musical tradition I find to be extremely valuable. Two minds (composer and performer) can do amazing things working together!
Wiek Hijmans
Main activities
-solo concerts with new music for electric guitar, some arrangements of classical music and some imrovisation
- ensemble concerts (Ensemble MAE, CATCH electric guitar 4tet, Nieuw Ensemble, Schönberg/ASKO, Radio Kamerfilharmonie, Musik Fabrik Köln, David Kweksilber BB, POW Ensemble etc.)
- soloist with orchestra (Orchestre de Caen, Neue Kammermusik Berlin-see youtube video- Noord Nederlands Orkest, Radio Kamerfilharmonie, Ricciotti Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, De Volharding etc.)
- Solo music with theatre performances (Bonheur Rotterdam, Rene Groothof)
- Composer
- directing the OUTPUT Festival (outputfestival.com)
- wrote the ELECTRIC GUITAR INSTRUMENTATION GUIDE
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