Erik
Bosgraaf
recorder
BBT
Award Winner
2009
Hailed
as one of the most gifted and versatile recorder players of the new
generation, Erik Bosgraaf has a colourful past in a rock band and as
an oboe player. He believes that good music is irrespective of style
and feels equally at home in early and contemporary music as well as
commissioning new works including several concertos incorporating new
media. In 2007 Frans Brüggen invited him to perform Bach's Actus
Tragicus at the Concertgebouw. Current engagements include solo
performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden and
the Dutch Radio Chamber Philharmonic/Thierry Fischer. His début
recording, a 3-CD box with music by Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck,
was number one in the Dutch classical music charts in 2007 and his
CD/DVD 'Big Eye', including contemporary music for film, was hailed
as 'wacky, irreverent and thought-provoking' (Gramophone). He has
also made CDs of Telemann, Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. In 2006 he
co-founded Ensemble Cordevento specializing in the music of the 17th
and 18th century. In 2010 he was appointed professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He also holds an MA in musicology from Utrecht
University and received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2009.
Photograph taken by Marco Borggreve
- Purchase of recorders
- Support for Vivaldi Concertos CD
- Showcase concert at 49 Queen’s Gate Terrace
- Co-commissioning a recorder concerto