| 1 CD |
€ 19.95
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| Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917200096 |
Catalogue number CC 720009 |
Release date 07 February 2025 |
Tim’s love for chamber music led to the formation of the Brackman Trio and the Animato Quartet at a young age. From 2014 to 2017, he organized an annual chamber music festival in Amsterdam with the Brackman Trio, and since 2018, he has been the artistic director of Podium Eibergen, organizing the annual Chamber Music Festival Eibergen, among other events.
While chamber music holds a prominent place in his schedule, he also focuses on other repertoires. He has performed as a soloist with various youth and amateur orchestras. As a finalist in the Dutch Violin Competition Oskar Back, he soloed in Schumann’s violin concerto with the Residentie Orkest conducted by Otto Tausk. In this competition, he won both the third prize and the NTR Prize for Best Performance of a Commissioned Composition with his interpretation of Calliope Tsoupaki’s ‘Aeriko.’
Tim pursued his bachelor’s degree with Ilona Sie Dhian Ho (The Hague) and Eszter Haffner (Copenhagen). He completed his master’s degree with Vera Beths in 2018. Subsequently, he took a postgraduate course with Pavel Vernikov and Svetlana Makarova at the Accademia Musicale Santa Cecilia in Bergamo, Italy (2018-2020). His lessons with Ivry Gitlis, Marc Danel, Hatto Beyerle, and Eberhard Feltz were a significant source of inspiration for him.
In addition to the Brackman Trio and the Animato Quartet, Tim forms a duo with violinist/violist Floor Le Coultre. Chamber music has taken him to festivals such as Stiftfestival, the Banff Centre, and the Verbier Festival. At the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (IKFU), Tim served as a Young Artist in Residence in 2020, responsible for a large part of the programming.
Tim regularly gives masterclasses for young talented musicians, including at the Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague and in Cividale del Friuli, Italy.
Tim plays a J.T. Cuypers violin from 1797. His bow, by the Parisian maker A. Vigneron, was acquired with the support of the Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument.
Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, but perhaps also one of the least listened to. Strikingly, Schoenberg was self-educated, even though his music is imbedded in complex music theory. It was Schoenberg who definitely departed from tonality and he developed the twelve tone technique. In this composition style, one has to use every twelve tones of the scale, before one can be repeated. The struggle to adhere to this dogma is clearly audible: his music is tense, hectic and particularly acute - and therefore at times not that accesible to occasional listeners.
Nevertheless, his music and his liberation of tonality had an enormous impact on all composers that came after him. Together with the music of his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern, his style is often referred to as the Second Viennese School, parallel to the First Viennese School of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, who, in a similar vein, changed the history of music for good.
His most performed works are his string sextet Verklärte Nacht, his five Orchestra pieces op. 16, and his opera Moses und Aron. The development of Schoenberg's music can be heard in his Five String Quartets in particular.
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