Frido ter Beek

Frido ter Beek (De Bilt, 1961) is a Dutch musician who lives in Buenos Aires. He studied classical saxophone at the Conservatory of Utrecht with Ed Bogaard, Andre Hemmers and Iwan Roth and took masterclasses with Daniel Deffayet, Francois Daneels and Jean Marie Londeix. In 1987 he graduated as a teacher and one year later as a performing artist. In 1991 Frido started to study jazz with Ferdinand Povel at the former Hilversum Conservatory (now Conservatory of Amsterdam) where he graduated in 1993.
In 2015 he moved from Utrecht to Buenos Aires but continues to participate in various projects in the Netherlands (the Koh-I-Noor Saxophone Quartet, Film Orchestra The Sprockets and Silent Live).

In Buenos Aires, Frido formed a jazz quartet (in 2017 el Club de Disco released his first cd entitled 'Entonces que?'), participated in the Roseti Project (also in 2017 the album 'Deshacer' came out) and has played
in the Julian Solarz Grupo, Sophie Lüssi Quintet, 'Monk Etc.', Leo Alvarez quintet, Claudio Risso quartet, Earthtones, Cuarteto de saxofones 4Mil, Marcelo Gallo Orquesta and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires.
He has played with well known Buenos Aires based musicians like Alvaro Torres, Ernesto Snajer, Mariano Loiacono and with Jazz orchestras such as  the CCK Big Orchestra. He 2018 and 2019 he performed as a soloist at the international BA Jazz festival.  
Frido teaches at the Jazz department of the EMPA (Escuela de música popular de Avellaneda) and has private students in Buenos Aires and Montevideo and gives workshops and masterclasses. He also gave saxophone lessons at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla.
In The Netherlands Frido has played with several artists, theater companies and orchestras, including the Orchestra de Volharding, Ensemble Klang, Clazz Ensemble, the Ereprijs, Dutch Jazz Orchestra, Independance, the Paardenkathedraal, Speeltheater Gent, Toneelschap B & D, Tamar, Jeugdtheatergroep Sonnevanck Harry Sacksioni, Stef Bos, Patrick Rugebregt Quartet, New Standard Trio, One Armed Octopus, Simply Jazz and the Charli Green Big Band.
He conducted three Big Bands and participated as a teacher of saxophone in various educational institutions and social projects. 

Composition has been getting more and more important over the years.
Frido wrote several works for the Koh-I-Noor saxophone quartet, Cuarteto de saxofones 4Mil, the Sirius Saxophone Quartet, Clazz Ensemble, Duo Cabezaz-Bavio (marimba and saxophone/flute), Duo Imaginaire (clarinet and harp), Duo Beumer-Ham (piano and saxophone), Company Canton Cuypers (saxophone and harp) and Reed quintet Torre 7. His latest saxophone quartet was premiered by the cuarteto de saxofones 4Mil on the international Alasax festival in Montevideo in 2019.

He also has written music for Cinema. In 2012 he composed some musical parts for the film "Nema aviona za Zagreb" (Louis van Gasteren).
In the same year he composed two scores for the silent movies "The Cure" (Charlie Chaplin, 1917) and "Tabu" (Friedrich Murnau, 1931) for the Sprockets and symphony orchestra (commissioned by the Arka Symphony Orchestra). This music made Frido finalist in the composers contest of the Rimusicazioni Film Festival 2016 (Bolzano, Italy).
In 2017 Frido wrote a piano score for a documentary film from 1928 about the Olympic wintergames in St. Moritz (Arnold Frank), which has been released on dvd and blu-ray by Criterion. You can watch it online, following this link.
In 2019 Frido wrote a score for the silent movie "Eine tolle Nacht"(Richard Oswald, 1926). Concerts took place in Germany and Belgium in 2019. This project was also recorded and broadcasted by Arte TV.
During the pandemic he composed a score for the silent film "Stagestruck" (Allan Dwan, 1925). Concerts took place in Berlin in 2021.
His score for the silent movie "Moral" (Willi Wolff, 1928) was premiered in October 2022 in Berlin at the opening night of the Ellen Richter Retrospective.
His score for the silent movie "The Unholy Three" (Tod Browning, 1925) has been written and recorded (broadcast will take place in 2024 on Arte TV).
At the moment he’s working on a new score for the silent Movie “Saxophone Susy”.
Frido's compositions can not be pigeonholed in one style, he uses a variety of sources and influences and creates his own musical language.
Frido recorded four albums as a soloist:
'Ahuila Maguilé' (2003), Entonces que? (2017), 'Cuentos de lo profundo' (2020) and 'Urban Tales of Loneliness and Despair' (2022).

Concerts 2024:

September: Sophie Lüssi/ Ramiro Penovi/ Frido ter Beek, Switzerland
August: Sprockets, UFA Film nights, Berlin, Germany
June 22nd, Claudio Risso Quartet. Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 8th, Earthtones. Soundrec Studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 29, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 28, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 26, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 23, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 22, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 21, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 19, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 18, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 17, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 16, Turandot (Puccini), Teatro Colon,Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 4th, Leo Alvarez Quintet. Prez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 23th, Frido ter Beek/Cassia Pereira. Soundrec Studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
January 28th, Cassia Pereira, Be-Bop, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Concerts 2023:

December 29th, Claudio Risso Quintet, Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 16th, Leo Alvarez Quintet. Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 14th, Sophie Lüssi Quintet, Virasoro Bar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 12th, Broder Bastos, Cafe La Biblioteca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 2nd, Claudio Risso Cuarteto, Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 24th, Torre 7 Ensamble, San Isidro, Argentina
November 11th, Cassia Pereira, Bargoglio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 8th, Leo Alvarez Quartet, Jazz Voyeur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 30th, Luna ter Beek. Bar Divergente - Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 16th, Claudio Risso Cuarteto. Swing City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 9th, Leo Alvarez Quintet. Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 8th, Marlene Parafioriti Trio, Blue Velvet, Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 31st, Claudio Risso Cuarteto. Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 15th, Leo Alvarez Quintet. Bebop, Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 12th, Juana de Arco en la Hoguera, Arthur Honneger, OFBA, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 4th, Sophie Lüssi Quintet, Virasoro Bar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
July 1st, Claudio Risso Cuarteto. Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 3rd, Luna ter Beek. Bar Divergente - Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 29th, Frido ter Beek/Mariano Agustoni. Jam de dibujo. Dumont 4040, Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 21st, Torre 7. Hasta Trilce - Maza 177, Almagro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 31st, Leo Alvarez Cuarteto. Borges - Borges 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 18th, Presentation 'Urban Tales'. La Cuerda Mecanica - Juramento 4686, Buenos Aires, Argentina
February 12th, Sophie Lüssi Quartet. Villa Irniger, 17.00. Zürich, Switzerland
February 11th, The Sprockets ("IT"). Filmpodium, 20.45. Nüschelerstrasse 11, Zürich, Switzerland
February 10th, Sophie Lüssi Quartet. Jazzclub Esse, 20.15. Zeughausstrasse 52, Winterthur, Switzerland
January 8th, Koh-I-Noor Saxophone Quartet. Het Wilde Westen, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Discography:

Frido Ter Beek - Leftovers  (EP. 2023, Alfajor)
Frido Ter Beek - Urban Tales of Loneliness and Despair  (2022, Club del disco) 
Frido Ter Beek - Cuentos de lo profundo (2020, Club del disco) 
Frido ter Beek - Entonces que? (2017, Club del disco)
Frido ter Beek - Ahuila Maguile (2003, Alfajor)
Koh-I-Noor Saxophone Quartet - Horrel (2004, KIN)
Koh-I-Noor Saxophone Quartet - November Music 2003 (2003, November Music Prod.)
Koh-I-Noor Saxophone Quartet - Saxophone Quartets from the Netherlands (2001, NM classics)
Koh-I-Noor Saxophone Quartet - Lucubraciones (1997, KIN)
 Ramiro Penovi - Call Me Irresponsible (2024, Ey! Muzik)
Torre 7 Ensamble - Uff! (2023, Indie)
Cuarteto de saxofones 4Mil - SaxTensiones (2022, Club del disco)
SilentLive - Twee soorten adem (2021, Challenge)
Sophie Lüssi Quinteto -  Altas Horas (2019, Club del disco)
Julian Solarz Grupo - La palabra no dicha (2018, Club del disco)
Roseti Project - Deshacer (2017, Noseso records)
Gene Veldhuizen - Have here or take away? (2016, Indie)
Elixxir - Another View (2011, Tone de Cologne)
Fernando Lameirinhas - Eterno (2011, Coast to Coast)
Orkest de Volharding - The Minimalists (2009, Mode)
Francis Wildemeersch - La Historia de Tiempo (2007, Coast to Coast)
New Standard Trio - Footsteps (2003, NSR)
Real Time Orchestra - Real Time (1995, KNF)
Orkest de Ereprijs - St. Louis Blues (1995, Donemus)
Stef Bos - Minder meer (2011, Niemandsland) 
Stef Bos - Kloofstraat (2010, Niemandsland) 
Stef Bos - Storm (2007, Niemandsland) (cd+dvd)
Stef Bos - Donker en Licht (2003, HKM)
Stef Bos - Van Mpumalanga to die Kaap (2001, HKM)
Stef Bos - Zien (1998, HKM)

Compositions:

 
2024 “Saxophonist Suzy” (music for silent movie. two saxophones, piano, guitar/banjo/mandoline, double bass and percussion)
2023 "The Unholy Three" (music for silent movie. saxophone, bassoon, bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano)
2022 “Low quartet” (saxophone quartet)
2022 “Dos danzas y medio” (reed quintet)
2022 "No es un Tango?" (2 saxes and piano)
2022 “Moral” (music for silent movie. two saxophones and piano)
2021 "En el jardin de criaturas chiquitas" (reed quintet)
2021 “Three interlocked pieces” (saxophone solo)
2021 “Dark Minds” (alto sax and violin)
2020 “Stagestruck” (music for silent movie. 2 saxes, piano, and percussion)
2020 “Lugares” (Saxophone Orchestra and solo alto sax)
2020 “Trio” (2 saxes and piano)
2019 “One Week” (music for silent movie. woodwind quartet)
2019 “Tres miniaturas” (saxophone quartet)
2018 “Eine tolle nacht” (music for silent movie. two saxophones, trombone, tuba, piano, guitar,  double bass and percussion)
2017 “St.Moritz” (music for silent movie. piano)
2015 - 2017 Various compositions and arrangements for Cuarteto Frido ter Beek (saxophone, guitar, bass and drums) and the Roseti Project (saxophone, trombone, drums)
2014 “Verf” (bass trombone, alto saxophone  and viola)
2014 “Crackles” (Big Band)
2014  music for silent shorts de Méliès (alto saxophone and piano)
2014 “Dodecaphunk” (marimba and saxophone/flute)
2014 “Maya” (marimba and saxophone/flute)
2013 “Minimal Damage” (marimba and saxophone/flute)
2013 “Duo” (harp and soprano saxophone)
2012 - 2014 Various compositions and arrangements for The One armed Octopus (saxophone, guitar, bass and drums)
2012 “Nema Aviona za Zagreb” (electronic music for film)
2012 “The Cure”(music for silent movie. two saxophones, piano, guitar, double bass and percussion)
2012 “Tabu” (music for silent movie. symphony orchestra)
2011 “Grounded, Mist & Fly” (harp and clarinet)
2010 “Clazzmic Strut” (wind ensemble and rhythm section)
2010 “Short Stories” (saxophone quartet and piano)
2009 “Black Please” (tenor saxophone and marimba)
2009 “The Unknown Saxophonist” (saxophone quartet)
2008 - 2014. Various compositions and arrangements forTimboektoe Big Band.
2008 “Out of Order” (saxophone quartet)
2006 “Bevlogen Waterland” (music for film)
2005 “Three Movements” (alto saxophone and piano)
2004 “Intuitions” (saxophone quartet and electronics)


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