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Herman Beeftink, Marcel Boelaars, Mart Heijmans Annette Kruisbrink, Jan van den LangenbergMark de Gooijer, Hans de Heer.

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Herman Beeftink

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Award Winning Composer of Music Education books

Herman Beeftink was born in 1953 in the Netherlands where he studied piano and composition at the Utrecht Conservatory. His development of original Jazz methods while still a student at the Conservatory brought him his first appointment as a music educator in the Jazz Department at the Utrecht Conservatory from 1978-1982. Following his graduation from the Conservatory, (M.A. Classical Piano, M.A. Composition) Herman achieved a versatile and successful career. He became the musical director in Europe for the Broadway musical "Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road."

Herman has written many music books for our company over the years and still does, the first one was published in 1978.

Since 1982, Herman lives in Los Angeles where he works as a composer for TV and film. He started by playing piano and synthesizers on many TV shows such as "The Carol Burnett Show" (Disney), "Roseanne" (ABC), and "Cheers". He also started his own production company, where he composes and records music for TV Commercials, Albums and Videos. Among his clients were Walt Disney and the Play boy TV Channel.

  

Some of his work

THEATRICAL FILMS:

  • X-Men Origens : Wolverine (2009) (writer &  performer "Carousel Rides"). Movie starring : Hugh jackman, Liev Schneiber & Ryan Reynolds.
  • Lions for Lambs (November 2007) ( writer & performer: "Lean Wit It" ) Movie starring : Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep etc.
  • The Simpsons Movie (July 2007) (writer & performer: "Carousel Ride")
  • Wild Hogs - Touchstone Pictures (2007) writer & performer "Dusty Trail Blues", "Carnival Clowns". Movie starring : John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta etc.
  • Dish Dogs - Flashpoint Pictures (Cannes Filmfestival 1998)
  • Resolution - Alpine Pictures
  • Quest Of The Delta Knights - Hemdale
  • One small Hero - Magic Hour Pictures

MADE FOR TV FILMS:

  • Nightcalls The Movie - Myst ique Films
  • The power Of Observation - Myst ique Films
  • Access Denied - Myst ique Films

TV DOCUMENTARIES:

  • Hollywood Commandos - Gregory Orr Productions
  • Jack L.Warner The Last Mogul - Warner Bros.
  • Twentieth Century Beauty - Cinemax
  • Ribald Classics - Cinemax

TELEVISION SERIES:

  • Gilmore Girls
  • Beverly Hills 90210
  • Home Improvement
  • Seventh Heaven
  • Thunder Alley
  • Carol & Company
  • The Royal Family
  • Miami Sands

SOLO ALBUMS:

  • Cruise Control - Jazz (Fusion) VTD 02
  • Seashells and Sandcastles - Piano Solos VTD 01

                                                  

Marcel Boelaars

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Marcels picture Marcel started playing guitar when he was 12 years old, he played in different Pop-bands and when he was 23 years old he decided to attend the ‘Twents’ Conservatory to become a classical guitarist. He studied with Rob Koenders and Louis Ignatius Gall.

He since 1980 has been a guitar teacher at the Music School ‘Noord Oost Twente’ in Oldenzaal the Netherlands. When Marcel started to teach, he found that there were few, suitable pieces for young children. This was his reason to compose very easy, playable pieces for his pupils. The pieces became very popular. These pieces were published at van Teeseling as "Happy Melodies" 1, 2 and 3 (VT 272-281-288).

In 1981 he also had the luminous idea to ask his pupils to compose something themselves, the result was over 100 pieces, which he started using in his guitar-lessons and it finally resulted in 38 ‘best’ little compositions, published as "Young Composers"1 and 2 (VT 318-321).

To play all these pieces with the right basic-technique he then developed the guitar method "Happy Together" 1 and 2 (VT 323-330) with many compositions and practice pieces, mostly for two guitars.
His latest book was recently published "Nice & Easy"(VT 359) for two guitars.

In 1999 Marcel wrote two new books: "Play with Chords; a book for easy and fun Chord playing, and "" Picking up the Pieces"; a book with a selection of beautiful and playable guitarsolos.

Marcel Boelaars also composed the special Piece "LUCIDO" for the 30th anniversary of the Dutch Guitar-association ‘Francisco Tarrega’, a limited piece and not available in the music stores.

Marcel is still composing, writing also guitar-quartets for HET MARCEL BOELAARS GITAARKWARTET. In 1998 they released a CD. For information about this CD, please contact Marcel Boelaars, Waterhamskamp 16, 7576 EM Oldenzaal, the Netherlands, phone: +31(0)541-531422 / +31(0)6-20683633, email: marcelboelaars@hotmail.com.

Mart Heijmans

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Mart Heijmans is a fine klezmer musician within the Dutch Klezmergroup Kalarash. In 1985 he first heard klezmer music on Dutch radio and since then he has collected everything (LP’s, Tapes, notes,writing) in this field. He was also involved in popularising klezmer music in Holland. Since 1990 he has held numerous klezmerworkshops and performances and has organised several klezmer-meetings in Nijmegen since 1993.
His Klezmer-music books found their way to many enthousiastic amateur-players all over the world. Besides 2 Klezmer books (VT 357 & VT-417), published by van Teeseling, he has also published two books with klezmer-arrangements. Each book contains 16 arranged klezmer-titles. More information about these arrangements you can get by sending an E-mail to : muziekdebontehond@planet.nl   

 

 

                                            
Annette Kruisbrink

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Annetes picture Annette studied the guitar with Pieter van der Staak, attented many masterclasses with famous guitarists, such as Leo Brouwer, John Mills and Toyohiko Satoh. She also took part in composition-classes with Alex Manassen and Composition courses with Nigel Osborne, Claudio Prieto and others.

In 1991 she won the first prize (audience award) at "The seventh international congress on women in music", Utrecht the Netherlands, with her composition "Sgraffito" for small orchestra. In 1992 she won the second prize with her composition "Faon" for guitar solo and in 1994 the first prize (ex aequo) with her composition "Homenaje a Andrés Segovia" also for guitar-solo in a composition contest organised by SACEM en CMAC, Fort de France, Martinique (FR).

She has written more than 70 compositions of which a large number has been published by international publishers. Compositions were also made for Dutch Radio (NCRV), Vereniging Huismuziek, Stichting Samenwerkende Nederlandse Koren and Stichting Schouwburg Odeon Zwolle.

Annette Kruisbrink now gives recitals and masterclasses guitar/composition in many countries (Spain, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and Sweden). Performes as a solo guitarist as well as a member of the ANIDO Guitar Duo with Arlette Rielens and her brother and double bass player Eric Kruisbrink.

There are 3 CD releases with her compositions;

1995‘CIREX’(WC 6072-1)Annette Kruisbrink, guitar
Eric Kruisbrink, double bass
1996 ‘ENCUENTRO’(WC 6075-1) Jan Bartlema, guitar
and Kamer Orkest Zwolle
1997 ‘KANAKANGI’ (WC 6078-1)The ANIDO Guitarduo

 

Jan van den Langenberg

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Jans Picture Born in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1954. He studied at the Brabants Conservatory, Tilburg, with Baltazar Benítez (guitar) and Jan van Dijk (composition). He finished his studies in 1981 by performing his own guitar concerto rewarded with the "prix d’exellence".

Since that time Jan van den Langenberg did various things in music ranging from giving concerts, to leading a musical group with his wife Myrna, also a musician.

Today he is teaching music at the same conservatory, now being a part of the Art devision of Fontys Hogescholen and teaching guitar at the Music & Dance Insitute at his domicile ‘Best’. His compositions include:

  • music for solo guitar
  • orchestral music (educational)
  • many sorts of arrangements (popular music as well as classical)
  • close harmony, musical songs etc. (in co-operation with his wife) 
  • see  www.youtube.com/@janvdlangenberg 
  • Mark de Gooijer

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    Mark's picture My name is Mark de Gooijer. I was born in 1957 in the Dutch town of Hilversum. When I was quite young my parents and I moved to the west of the country, so that my father could be closer to his work.

    I graduated at the Grammar School of the Sweelinck Comprehensive School in Amsterdam. I continued with my higher education in Electronics in Enschede in the east of the country. I now live in Hengelo and make a living at my job as technical author. I met my wife Erna in Twente, a picturesque area in the east of Holland. We have two children.

    I started playing the guitar at the age of seventeen. At school, the guitar was one of the most popular instruments and I really wanted to learn to play. My first guitar was a very old Spanish guitar, a cast off from my sisters (ex) boyfriend. He charged me ten guilders for it, a considerable amount of money for a guy with very little pocket money and a small newspaper round. I almost rebuilt it, new strings, new tuning pegs, new frets and a lot of paint and glue to keep things together.

    The first three years I learned to play with the help of chord books without any further professional instruction. After that I decided to take guitar lessons, to get more out of my instrument. I attended the Musical School in Enschede and studied under Thea van der Meer. She taught me the first principles of playing classical guitar and above all of musicianship. After a number of years, I changed teachers and via Rob Wagenvoort and Guitar School La Guitarra I ended up with Ed Westerik, my present teacher. The lessons with Rob Wagenvoort consisted mainly of playing duet. He really did like that, much better than teaching Solo Guitar, so I joined in the fun and got interested in playing with other musicians.

    After a while I started to play with a flautist on a more or less regular basis and we did quite well. Unfortunately much of the (classical) repertoire for guitar and flute turned out to be too difficult, given the time available for study. It just took too long to complete a piece that was up to smooth performance level.

    That was the reason I started to arrange material for the duo myself, pieces that were playable in a reasonable short time but still sounded good. Another reason for doing the arranging myself was that the flautist liked solo guitar music very much and that was a perfect motivation to write down some notes.

    In the beginning it was quite difficult writing the scores. The Dutch proverb "Paper is Patient" was at the time very apt. It became a custom to use these hand-written scores as a birthday present for the flautist.

    The computer entered my life in 1990. I started with a Commodore Amiga with the famous score program DeluxeMusic. It was now possible to edit the arrangements without erasing and to play back for checks. The matrix printer print outs were poor, but still much better than the ordinary hand writing. This was when I wrote the arrangements of the English folk songs from "Down by the Sally Gardens" (published by Van Teeseling under number VT-347), part of them were dedicated to a Scottish girl I got along quite well with.

    Technology developed and the Amiga became obsolete. I replaced it with a PC with a Soundblaster , a MIDI keyboard and the Musicator for Windows software for the arrangements.

    Back then I more or less fell in love with the beautiful tunes of the Brazilian/Portuguese Modinha. This music had a sound that was quite new to the flautist and I.The arrangements I wrote are included in "Conselhos" (published by Van Teeseling under number VT-348). Modinhas are mostly love songs, joyous, tender or deeply sad.

    The experiences with the 'Latin material' were quite positive, the audiences we played for really did like the tunes. So I started to make a new set of folk songs from the south. I became attracted to the Catalan folk songs that were arranged by Miguel Llobet at the beginning of the century. I felt that the songs told a story of Love and Death, both facts of life. These songs are included in "El Amor y La Muerte" (published by Van Teeseling under number VT-379).

    Hans de Heer

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    Hans pictureHans de Heer (1927) combined a career in science (as a mathematician) with composing music. In 1953 he got acquainted with the then well-known classical guitarist Koos Tigges, who inspired him to write many works for guitar, both solo and in combination with other instruments. The next year Telefunken recorded three PRELUDES. These preludes were also published by Metro Music. Several other pieces for solo guitar came into existence, among which a sonatine called SONATINE 1954. At the time the quitar became accepted as a worthwhile instrument and Koos Tigges became a full-fledged conservatory teacher. So it seemed a good idea to make special exercises: 'guitar-etudes' suitable for musical recitals. Ten 'guitar-etudes', each concentrated on a separate technical difficulty were produced. They are still used at conservatories. In 1967 a Sonatine for flute and guitar won the international 'Jeunesses Musicales' prize. It is available on a CD by Julian Coco (guitar) and Magdalena Kuhn (flute) together with other pieces for flute and guitar from mainly Dutch composers. In 1972 a performance of the Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra by German guitarist Mischa Koch (guitar) and the Dutch Radio Chambre Orchestra has been broadcasted and registered on tape recorder (AVRO). The concerto has been performed by others and the tape registration has been broadcasted several times later on. The score of the concerto has once been shown to Andres Segovia during an international guitar course and it is understood that he was very enthusiastic about it. After the guitar concerto many works for guitar with other instruments came into being, among which two additional sonatines for flute and guitar, a duo for cello and guitar. A trio for flute, alt violin and guitar has been performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. Recently a transcription of the duo for cello and guitar into a duo for two guitars dedicated to the Groninger Guitar Duo got its first performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory. A composition called 'Introduction Air en Fuga' for three guitars is so far the last work with guitar composed by Hans de Heer. All these composition are published. Most of them by Van Teeseling, some by DONEMUS (3 sonatinas for flute and guitar) and a few elsewhere.

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