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Pieter Belder

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Pieter Belder Jan 27, 2014

PIeter-Jan Belder (1966) studied recorder with Ricardo Kanji at the Royal Conservatium of the Hague, and harpsichord with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatorium. He graduated in 1990 and since then has persued a flourishing career as a harpsichordist, clavichord player, organist, forte-pianist and recorder player.

He has played at many international festivals, such as the Barcelona Festival de Musica Antiga, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Berlin Tage für Alte Musik, the Festival van Vlaanderen, the Klara Festival, the Festival Potsdam Sans Souci, the Sacharov Festival in Nizhny Novgorod and the Leipzig Bachfest . He regularly plays solo recitals. He is also very much in demand as a continuo player with such ensembles as the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Collegium Vocale Gent, Camarata Trajectina, the Gesualdo Consort and the Netherlands Bach Society. He has worked with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, Paul Dombrecht, Philippe Herreweghe, Kenneth Montgomery and Jos van Veldhoven. Belder has also accompanied soloists such as Johannette Zomer, Nico van der Meel, Harry van der Kamp, Sigiswald Kuijken, Rémy Baudet, Wilbert Hazelzet, Kate Clark and Saskia Coolen. Belder conducts his own ensemble Musica Amphion.

In 1997 Pieter-Jan Belder was awarded the third prize at the Hamburg NDR Music Prize harpsichord competition. In 2000 he was winner of the Leipzig Bach harpsichord competition. In 2005 he made his debut as a conductor in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, conducting Musica Amphion.

He has made over 100 CD-recordings, most of them solo and chamber music productions. In 1999 Belder was invited to participate in two important CD recording projects: 10 CDs as a part of a complete Bach recording (Brilliant), and one CD in an Edison-awarded complete recording of all the Keyboard works of the Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (NM classics) . Since 1999 Belder has been working on his integral recording of the Scarlatti keyboard sonatas, which has been released in 2007. In 2009 his recording of Bach’s Welltempered Clavier has been released on the Brilliant Classics label as well as the Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin

In 2004 a complete recording of Telemann’s ‘Tafelmusik’ was released under his direction, as well as a CD focussing on two centuries of recorder music. The recording of Corelli’s Opera Omnia with Musica Amphion was released in April 2005. In 2006 he recorded Bach’s Brandenburg concertos as well the concertos for 2,3&4 harpsichords with Musica Amphion.
Last year Musica Amphion released the complete chambermusic by Purcell.

Currently Belder works on the recording of the complete keyboard works by the Spanish composer padre Antonio Soler. Also recordings of the Fitzwilliam Virginalbook and early works by Bach are in preparation.

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