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Martyn van den Hoek

Martyn van den Hoek (about 1957) is a Dutch pianist .

He followed his education at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Istvan Hajdu and Gert van der Steen and completed it in 1975 . In 1978 he was awarded the "Prix d'exellence", after which he continued his studies in Moscow and Budapest . In New York he studied with, among others, Josef Raieff , pianist and teacher at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music and himself a pupil of Alexander Siloti , who had lessons from Franz Liszt in Weimar .

In 1986 he won the very first edition of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht. Martyn van den Hoek is now a member of the international selection jury of this competition. A year later he received the Dutch Music Prize , the highest distinction that can be awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to a musician working in classical music.

He performed as a piano soloist with renowned orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra . He has worked with conductors such as Hans Vonk , David Zinman , Kirill Kondrashin , Jean Fournet and Richard Dufallo . He is also particularly active in chamber music . Except in Europe, he regularly performs in Japan and China with broadcasts on radio and television. He has published dozens of CDs with works by Franz Liszt , Franz Schubert , Cesar Franck , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Felix Mendelssohn , Igor Markevitch and Frederic Chopin , among whom the second piano concerto in a version for piano and string quintet. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts piano concertos no. 11, 12 and 13, played as piano quintets with the Augsburger Streichquartet. His repertoire includes all known piano concerts and a variety of different solo programs.

From 1987 to 1995 Martyn van den Hoek was a teacher in Vienna , first at the Hochschule fur Musik and later at the conservatory. He gives masterclasses in Vienna , Athens , Warsaw and Tokyo , and workshops and lectures about, among other things, posture and movement and the problems that arise as a result of playing the piano. In addition, he teaches classes about communicating as the primary task of every musician: articulating gestures, movement, direction, humor and patterns. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the Utrecht School of the Arts .

Martyn van den Hoek is also the initiator of the annual summer festival Musik Zentral in Austria . In Bad Aussee near Salzburg , courses and workshops are held in the widest possible range of art forms. With this he has created a learning school, especially intended for gifted students.

In July 2001 , during the Socrates year, he organized concerts in Athens with the theme of ancient Greek philosophy and the influence on western classical music. In 2002 a CD was published with a book by his hand entitled Eye and Ear.

Martyn van den Hoek is the artistic director of a concert series organized by the Dutch embassy in Vienna to encourage young talented musicians to become acquainted with Dutch composers who lived during the time of Richard Strauss . The residence of the Dutch ambassador, where the concerts take place, is located in the old Viennese house of Richard Strauss. Through this series of concerts musical bridges are struck between present and past, young and old and between Austria and the Netherlands. The musicians are partly from the Vienna University for Music and can compose the program themselves.

He is married to the Japanese concert pianist Tomiko Kaneko , who studied at the Music Academies of Tokyo , Munich and Karlsruhe , with whom he forms a piano duo and gives lectures on philosophy in music.

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