Marcello Oboe Concerto and BWV 32

This weekend I’ll be performing this wonderful music for oboe in the north of the Netherlands. Hope to see you there!

More information and tickets.

Coming November I’m very excited to be teaching an improvisation course in Amsterdam at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ for all level musicians. Everyone can improvise! We will cover the basics of early music improvisation, ranging from canon to ground, imitation to free improvisatory forms like the prelude! A course to open your mind!

More information on taking part can be found here.

NB the course will (most likely) be taught in Dutch.

The Scroll Ensemble‘s programme Grand Tour includes one of my favourite pieces ever: Luciano Berio’s Gesti. In “Zeewolde Actueel” our concert was very positively reviewed including this lovely comment:

“Een bijzondere prestatie leverde Robert de Bree met zijn vertolking van “Gesti”, een werk van de Italiaan Luciano Berio (1925-2003)”
Full review here.

This June 10-12 in MOOOV (The Hague, NL) I am very excited to be performing the show “Etudes” for Opera2Day. It’s a show made based on Willy Verkuil’s “The Art of Performing”, with whom we worked for almost a year now to prepare for this show!
A special show based on exercises to become more aware of the body which leads it to be a unique show in which neither text, nor music, nor movement plays a main role. I invite you to find YOUR story!

Also, I am excited to have my composition “Scoop” premiered at this show!

More information and tickets can be found here.
Watch the trailer:

Very excited to be playing Giulio Cesare with my Orchestra Symphonie Atlantique in the Concertgebouw on 12-4-2015! Book tickets if you haven’t yet:

I am honoured to have been asked to be on the jury for the upcoming Open Recorder Days Amsterdam. Be sure to visit their website and lend your support to their great cause financially, if you can!

Two films which show a glimpse of me :)

A while back I worked with wonderful and inspiring students in Cambridge on some contemporary recorder repertoire. We looked into improvisation, techniques and then keyed in to Shinohara’s Fragmente and Linde’s Music for a Bird specifically.
Students performed their own compositions as well as a group improvisation. Get in touch with me if you are interested in a workshop on improvisation, contemporary music, ensemble playing and more!

The students’ view:
http://senior.stephenperse.com/news/2012-13-senior-school-news-archive/recorder-workshop

In 2010 I had the great pleasure of being part of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. We recorded some beautiful works by Handel with the amazing soprano Maria Keohane led by Lars Ulrik Mortensen!

Recently the CD was released:
http://www.eubo.eu/Downloads/pure-handel

Recently I have been working on two CD-recordings with BON and with Klaartje van Veldhoven. The former includes Vivaldi’s oboe solo in the Gloria in D and the latter includes several wonderful arias by J. S. Bach for soprano, oboe and strings.

BON – Musica Religiosa

Klaartje van Veldhoven – Bach arias with baroque ensemble and accordeon