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19:30 | Arjan Breukhoven (Netherlands) |
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"An organ as it must to be" series. Arjan Breukhoven started his musical training with Jan Brandwijk. He later studied principal professional organ and church music at the Royal Academy in the Hague with Wim van Beek and Bert Matter. He studied piano with Albert Brussee, and also singing, improvisation and choir direction. In this academy time he also got lessons from the French organist and pedagogue Gaston Litaize. He also attended choir and orchestra direction with professor Kurt Thomasstichting. Breukhoven acts as a pianist, organist, soloist, as well as accompanying musician for soloists and choirs. He also works as a conductor. He has collaborated with a lot of other musicians like Ernst-Daniël Smid, Vicki Brown, Berdien Stenberg, Marco Bakker, Ben Cramer, Kamahl, Henk Poort, Marjolein Keuning, Margriet Eshuijs and Cor Bakker. He played with Louis van Dijk and Daniël Wayenberg, among others. In 2007 he celebrated his 25th year's jubilee as a musician by concerts with baritone Ernst-Daniël Smid and two concerts in Bruges' Church of Our Lady and Ghent's Saint Bavo and moreover with an organ concert on Garrels-orgel in the Great Church of Maassluis. Breukhoven regularly gives concerts in the Netherlands, elsewhere on the continent and in Australia. Arjan Breukhoven received the silver honours in 2008 from the main board for church stewardship in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands for working as an organist in that church for more than 25 years. In program: Bach, Vidor, Balbastr, Piazzolla, Chopin, Kabalevsky, Khachaturian, Monti, Saint-Saens, improvisations.
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20:00 | Robbie Williams (UK) |
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Out of all the members of Take That, Robbie Williams never really seemed to fit in. Roguishly handsome where his bandmates were merely cute, Williams was tougher and sexier than the rest, which made him more distinctive. He also fought regularly with the other members and their management, primarily because he was occasionally adverse to being so heavily packaged. So it didn't come as a surprise that he was the first to leave the band, departing early in the summer of 1995 to pursue a solo career (by some accounts, he was fired from the group). About his brand new "Let Me Entertain You Tour" Robbie Williams has announced with a YouTube video, which saw him sport his iconic "Let Me Entertain You" make-up. "Let Me Entertain You Tour" kicks off in March 2015 and will see Robbie return to countries he hasn't visited for a while as well as head to others he'll be entertaining for the very first time. Described by Robbie as a "party anthem," "Let Me Entertain You" climbed to #3 in the spring of 1998, during the post-Angels whirlwind. The song soon became his signature gig-opener. Inspired by the Rolling Stones film "Rock'n'Roll Circus", Robbie said: "We watched "Rock Circus" and after that we went and recorded "Let Me Entertain You". When we started writing the demo there was a furious jungle beat underneath it. It was so hardcore it got me very excited, and I still get excited listening to it now. It's not really heavy metal, it's more like camp rock opera!" 2015 will go down in history as the year of the triumphant world "Let Me Entertain You Tour" by Robbie Williams! "Hell is gone and heaven's here! I'm coming out on tour next year!" Read more
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