Bangkok--10 Oct--BGS
Concert DUO NIHZ " Guitar and Recorder Night" in Thailand International Guitar Festival 2012
Together Bobby Rootveld on guitar and Sanna van Elst on recorders form Duo NIHZ. This ensemble is from the Netherlands. NIHZ means in Dutch ‘Niet-In-Het-Zwart’ and in English this means ‘Not-Wearing-Black-Clothes’. Sanna van Elst and Bobby Rootveld both got theirdegrees at the Artez Conservatory of Enschede, Holland. Duo NIHZ has a big repertoire including renaissance, baroque, romantic, Spanish, own compositions, Jazz, Pop
Rock, Avant-Garde, Jewish music and world music. Their repertoire also includes music by composers specially composed for Duo NIHZ. Since 2007 Duo NIHZ mainly plays Jewish Music. Often Duo NIHZ also collaborates with artists from other disciplines like dancers, storytellers (Loek Boer) and painters. The way Duo NIHZ performs could be called ‘not-traditional’. Besides Chamber Music Duo NIHZ also performs with musictheatre-programmes, children’s concerts and programmes on unexpected locations. Duo NIHZ performed for Dutch and Hungarian Television and Dutch National Radio and also played in the Concertgebouw (Concertbuilding) of Amsterdam. Duo NIHZ performed in numerous countries and on special locations including: The Rundetaarn in Denmark, The Portugese Synagogue of Amsterdam, The Taj Concert Hall in Thimpu, Bhutan, Kristallnacht-remembrance in Freudental (Stuttgart), The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Kolkata Classical Guitar Festival in India, numerous of synagogues and festivals and concerthalls in Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Hungary, Italy etc. Duo NIHZ released several cd’s and dvd’s. In 2009 Duo NIHZ received a special award during the International Jewish Music Festival of Amsterdam. Duo NIHZ often collaborates with Alberto Mesirca with whom they recently together performed in the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. In January 2011 Duo NIHZ opened it’s own concert hall in Nordhorn, Germany: www.kulturhausnihz.de . Bobby and Sanna are also the founders of the Guitar Festival Nordhorn and Recorder Festival Nordhorn. Bobby also used to be the chairman and is a founding member of the Twents Gitaar Festival. Recently Duo NIHZ performed at the International Classical Guitar Festival of Kolkata, India and in Thimpu, Bhutan.
Program
1.Louis Ignatius Gall — Guajira
2.Theo Willemze - Gossip
3.Pablo Daniel Garcia — Buenos Aires Ritmico
4.Jim ten Boske — Leave Something Unexplained
5.Hans Christiann Lumbye — Champagne Galop
6.Isaac Albeniz — Rumores de la Caleta
7.Trad. — Bubbe’s Klezmer Cooking Mix
8.Trad. — Chassidic Dances
9.Alfred Rootveld — Samson’s Tune
10.Kees Manders — Amsterdam Huilt
11.Hyman Yablokoff - Papirosn
12.Trad. — Khosidl
Thursday 8 November 2012, 19:00
At Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Auditorium 5 floor.
Free Admission
More information www.thailandguitarfestival.com