Pieter-Jan Belder

Pieter-Jan Belder can be an accomplished multi-instrument performer and conductor. He has harpsichord, fortepiano, body organ, clavichord, and recorder, but is most beneficial known for his just work at the harpsichord and even more designed for his shows of J.S. Bach’s and Domenico Scarlatti’s key pad works. Belder can be equally prominent being a conductor: since 1993 he provides offered as music movie director of the favorite period-instrument ensemble Musica Amphion, which he generally conducts through the key pad. Belder’s repertory, both as performer and conductor, concentrates almost solely on music through the Baroque and early Classical period, using the brands Handel, Corelli, Frescobaldi, Purcell, Telemann, Sweelinck, and Mozart frequently showing up on his applications and recordings. He in addition has devoted focus on largely neglected composers from those intervals, such as for example Elias Bronnenmüller, Johann Christian Schickhardt, Dario Castello, and many more. Since 2006 Belder continues to be involved with two massive documenting tasks for the Excellent Classics label: he offers made over twelve discs each of Bach key pad functions and of the entire sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Belder in addition has recorded for World and PentaTone. Pieter-Jan Belder was created in Holland in 1966. He analyzed the recorder in the Royal Conservatory from the Hague with Ricardo Kanji. Then enrolled in the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory where he analyzed harpsichord with Bob vehicle Asperen. Pursuing his 1990 graduation, he became a member of the faculty in the Sweelinck Conservatory. In 1993 Belder created the chamber group Musica Amphion and thereafter break up his time taken between activities with this ensemble and key pad single and chamber looks. In the mean time, Belder captured third reward in the 1997 Hamburg NDR Harpsichord Competition, and 3 years later on he received the Leipzig Bach Harpsichord Competition. Belder was frequently performing throughout European countries right now, including at music celebrations like the Leipzig Bach Event, Event de Musica Antiga in Barcelona, Sacharov Event in Nizhny Novgorod, and many more. He was also producing regular looks on both Dutch and German radio and tv broadcasts. Belder quickly became a significant presence around the documenting scene, as well, both with Musica Amphion so that as a harpsichordist. In 2005 Amazing Classics released the Belder/Musica Amphion 10-Compact disc group of Corelli’s total works, and the next year Belder released the J.S. Bach and Scarlatti key pad tasks for the same label. Among his later on recordings may be the 2009 Amazing Classics four-CD group of Books 1 & 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.