Artist archive: Erik Bosgraaf

Maybe some of you have read Debra Boraston’s recent #BBTathomeforawhile blog but, if not, I would definitely encourage you to! I couldn’t agree more with her perception that regardless of what happens to us humans, nature will thrive anyway… One could go as far and say that nature would thrive a lot better without the […]

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The residency in Aldeburgh last August has been an amazing opportunity for the Dudok Quartet, soprano Michaela Riener and myself to explore the depth of the material of our latest project by the name of The Rape of Artemisia. Inevitably Benjamin Britten’s spirit is everywhere: not only the opera The Rape of Lucretia comes into […]

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“My new Recorder Concerto which I especially composed for Erik Bosgraaf has become one of my most personal and biographical works and has an enormous emotional impact.” Willem Jeths

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As I am writing this I am taking a small break listening to the first edit of my new CD Bach: Concertos for Recorder.

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On the 21st February I was awarded the Dutch Music Prize, the highest Dutch state award for music, at a concert with the Dutch Chamber Orchestra at Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.  On the same day Graham Johnston, David Hoskins and I got together for the second time to shoot part of a short documentary film for […]

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Last week the official announcement of the BBT winners was made. Since then I have received daily phone calls and emails asking about interviews, concerts and photo shoots! It is really nice to see that especially in the region where I was born, there is lots of attention. This region is Friesland, in the north […]

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