Woodwind Trio | Bram van Sambeek, Olivier Patey & Jeroen Soors

Doors open at 19:00

Concert starts at 19:30

Performers:

Bram van Sambeek – bassoon

Olivier Patey – clarinet

Jeroen Soors – oboe

Programme:

To be announced

Bram van Sambeek – bassoon

Bram van Sambeek is an internationally acclaimed bassoonist and professor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. In 2009 he became the first bassoonist to receive the Dutch Music Prize, the highest Dutch cultural award for classical musicians, and in 2011 he received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He was principal bassoonist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras around the world. An adventurous chamber musician, he is known for his versatile approach to the instrument and imaginative programming.

Olivier Patey – clarinet

French clarinettist Olivier Patey is principal clarinet of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, which he joined in 2013. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and is a prizewinner of both the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Carl Nielsen International Competition. Before joining the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he was principal clarinet of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also active as a soloist and chamber musician.

Jeroen Soors – oboe

Jeroen Soors is principal oboe of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, positions he has held since 2016. He studied in Antwerp and went on to specialise with Thomas Indermühle in Karlsruhe and Jacques Tys and David Walter in Paris. As a young musician he performed with the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, and later held principal oboe positions with Het Gelders Orkest, the Radio Kamer Filharmonie and the Residentie Orchestra. He also teaches oboe at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.

Our beautiful Steinway is on loan from the Netherlands Musical Instrument Foundation.