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A couple of words about who i am and what i do ... I'm a dutch composer and songwriter and i write, produce, arrange and perform besides being an in-demand guitarplayer. My work goes from orchestral to dance and from ambient to rock to music for film and television. I guess i like it all...
I write a lot of commissioned music and some of my clients include VWgroup, BMW, Philips, Seat, Nike, Microsoft, Mercedes, Popstars, MTV, Audi, Tour de France, Samsung, Bavaria, Mercedes, Yamaha, Wrangler, Disney, Canon, Pink Ribbon, Proctor&Gamble and many, many more...
I continue to work with Top DJ Fedde Le Grand and do lots of guitarwork for this hot DJ.
Fedde just released a single in Januari 2011 together with Mitch Crown and myself... The track is called:
Let Me Be Chill. Have a listen on my Music page or buy on iTunes.
Over the last years i have worked with Nena, Pink, Cirque du Soleil, Steve Balsamo, Tavares, George McCrea, Starmaker, K-otic, City to City, Ida Corr, Metropool Orkest, Helmut Lotti, Moscow State Circus to name a few and also pretty much every famous dutch singer.....
My music took me all over the world and i have done shows and events in China, Japan, USA, India,
South-Africa, Russia, Monaco, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, South-Korea, Spain and Portugal.
Some highlights:
- Olympic Show Beijing 2008 seen by almost one million people!
- Music for Tour de France 2010 "Le Grand Depart"
- Cirque du Soleil show in Monaco 2008
- All VWgroup Car shows around the world since 2003 including one in Geneva with Pink!
- 2 X-mas albums with dutch Musical Stars such as Chantal Jansen and Pia Douwes
- 2 Top2000 albums "Met andere woorden" in 2008 and 2009 with Esther Hart and Ferry van Leeuwen
- I wrote and recorded many cartunes among them: Audi A4 - Peugeot 308 - the Skoda Superb - VW Passat
BMW3 - BMW1 - BMW7 - BMW5 - Philips Aurea tv - Seat Ibiza and Leon - Samsung 3D tv - Philips MRI scanner
- New single Walk The Line and clip released in januari 2011 by rockband Givemeister.
Do take a look at the vids page!!!!!!!!
My music was featured in multiple tv shows, commercials and films including:Coming and Going, upcoming movie by Steve Balderson (start filming in Fall 2011), Hidden Hearing tv commercial UK, Bighorn Show2, Flip Mino, One Way Street, Little Blossom,Wrangler, MTV, La Promesse, Jensen, Haribo, Starmaker, Popstars, Dance4Live, Beeld&Geluid-Awards, Wolfseinde...
Last year my tracks have appeared in radio and tv ads of Delta Airlines USA, Bananacoast Comm. Credit Union in Australia, Hyundai Australia, Crest Auto Group USA, Dance Mat Computergames, Le Grand Defi Pierre Lavoie, Canadian Motion Picture, IBM Germany, The Loop. I also remixed a Shakira track for her Seat Paris show and toured with Dutch famous singer Angela Groothuizen.
I enjoy teaching Singer/Songwriting at the ArtEZ Academy of Music in the Netherlands.Great people and great school!
In 2011 i will release my new album full of Ambient tracks, the first Givemeister cd will appear and i will continue to work with many artists and companies all over the world.....