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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 |
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