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Geesche Geddert |
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biography |
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Geesche Geddert was born in Hannover (BRD) and
studied recorder at the Stedelijk Conservatorium Zwolle, Netherlands, with
Dorothea Winter. 1982 – founder and member of the Baldwine
Consort (recorder quartet) with which numerous concerts with Renaissance
music and mixed programmes with contemporary music were given. 1983 - adaption, first performance and publication
of In Freundschaft by Karlheinz Stockhausen in collaboration
with the composer. In the following years numerous performances of and
lectures on this work at conservatories in the Netherlands and in Germany
(a.o. in Mnster, Duisburg, Maastricht, Amsterdam); publication about this
collaboration in the Tibia magazine (1984). 1983 - Pas de
Deux by Ivo van Emmerik written for the Baldwine Consort: world premire
and live broadcast during the radio program Musica Nova Live. 1986 – founder of the recorder ensemble Trio
Dolce, with which concerts were given
in the Netherlands and Germany, including radio and cd-recordings; the
ensemble is specialized in contemporary music, but combines/confronts this
often with Baroque music or music from Middle Ages and Renaissance. - First performance
of Voci Eguali (1986) by Ivo van
Emmerik and Pfeif drauf (1985) by
Lothar Lmmer in Frankfurt. 1988 - initiator of the First International
Recorderweek in the IJsbreker, Amsterdam, which was held from 16 to 22
October 1988; during this week the first performance was given of Blind Kind by Margriet Hoenderdos,
written especially for Geesche Geddert. 1988 - participation in a musictheatre production
William & Mary 1989 - The American composer John Cage writes Three for the Trio Dolce; its first
performance takes place in 1990 during the Darmstdter Ferienkurse, where
Cage is invited for the first time since 1958; Geesche Geddert publishes on
this collaboration in the Tibia magazine. 1991-1993 – a performance of Louis Andriessens
Melodie with pianist Paul Komen in
the Concertgebouw Amsterdam; - world premire and radio broadcast of Melos
Hidiston by Calliope Tsoupaki and Le
Vivroie Liement by Ron Ford during the Ach Europa Festival in
Groningen; -
participates in the world premire of Micha Hamels violin concerto And they caught us by the Radio
Chamber Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano; - participates in the Broadway-production of the
musical The Secret Garden by the
Metropole Orchestra; - collaborates with Makoto Shinohara in a portrait-concert
in Groningen and performes his work Fragmente.
1994 – collaboration with the American
composer Christian Wolff in a concert to celebrate his 60th birthday and
performs in a cross-over version of his Exercises
with jazz musicians. 1995 – world premire of Shadows of Cold Mountain 1 by the German composer Walter
Zimmermann in Berlin, a work written for Trio Dolce. 1998 - cd recording of John Cage Three and Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment for Mode Records, New York 1998 – participation in Ivo van Emmeriks
cd-rom Als een gelaat van zand bij de
grens der zee, a multimedia work performed many times in the Netherlands. 1999 - as a member of Trio Dolce lectures and
masterclass given at the Royal Conservatory The Hague 2001 – world premire of Erased-Retraced, a cycle of works by Walter Zimmermann, of which Shadows of Cold Mountain 1 is a part,
with a live radio broadcast by WDR in Cologne 2001 - cd recording of Fancy by Wim de Ruiter 2005 – appears as a soloist in Brandenburgisches Konzert nr.2 by J.S.
Bach together with the Parnassus Ensemble in Nijmegen; premire of Duo by Ivo van Emmerik 2006 - premire of Il Prisoniero by Annette Kruisbrink 2007 – appears as a soloist in Suite in a-moll by Telemann together
with the Parnassus Ensemble in Velp and Zutphen 2011
– cd recording of In Freundschaft by Karlheinz Stockhausen 2013
- concerts with a recently discovered 18th century recorder built
by Willem Beukers |
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