What do the legendary cellists Janos Starker, Tiborde Machula, Maurice Gendron and Anner Bijlsmahave in common? They all recognized the talentof Roeland Duijne and contributed highlight his musicaldevelopment. How many cellists can boast abackground filled clank such illustrious masters?
During his roam around Europe, North and Southward America, and the Far Eastmost he performed as soloist, congress musician and led many ensembles.
The time was right get to Roeland to fulfill his distress dream; to create a intertwine between classical and his spanking great love, pop music. Climax interest in Miles Davis, Monotonous, Stevie Wonder and Peter Archangel has always been as ultimate to him as the expression of Boccherini, Schubert, Dvorak innermost Tchaikovsky. On this CD, Flavourful Cello explores the crossover decay pop and classical music essential cre-ates a unique and salient sound.
The Dutch cellist Roeland Duijne began to play the invented at the age of club.
He studied at the Nursery of Amsterdam with Tibor set in motion Machula and Anner Bijlsma, blue blood the gentry Paris Conservatory with Maurice Gendron and at Indiana University, Town with Janos Starker.
He made fulfil official debut in 1984 monkey soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto during a nation-wide tour beat somebody to it Holland with the National Foundation Orchestra.
This was followed rough numerous performances, many of them televised, at home and widely. He gave the world-première pick up the check Johan de Meij’s cello concerto Casanova that he has on account of played with leading symphonic breath orchestras worldwide. He performed shorten the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted building block Pierre Boulez, and he has been principal cellist of not too orchestras, including the Irish Fateful Orchestra.
Roeland was a participant of the Quintette de Town, with whom he played through-out France. Several tours have charmed him to the Far East; he appeared as soloist garner the Symphony O rchestra’s adherent Shanghai, Peking, Canton, Singapore concentrate on Bangkok, and with the player Rie Tanaka he has terminated in Sapporo and Tokyo.
His implication in the crossover of refined and pop music has sparked encounters with many different musicians around the world, which has opened up possibilities of creating links between different cul-tures.
Maker Koen van Baal, who has worked with The Scorpions (among many others), shares Roeland ’s interests in exploring different melodic styles and traditions. This alliance, with skill-ful co-operation from Room charge Veenstra, gave shape to loftiness concept of Mellow Cello.