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De Graaff: The Forest in April
Maya Fridman, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Sander Teepen & Nicolò Foron
In The Forest in April, the relationship between soloist and orchestra is central as a metaphor for the relationship between man and nature.
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Maya Fridman
cello / singer
Musician, medium, priestess. For Maya Fridman (1989), these words mean virtually the same thing. Music is magic, she believes. And as a performer, she enjoys taking her audience to that other, magical world. This is how she turns each concert into an almost religious ritual. Upon reflection, there are two Mayas. The classical Maya studied cello in Russia and the Netherlands. She won the Dutch Classical Talent Award in 2019, a reliable measure of musical mastery. Here was a cellist who had more u
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Jan-Peter de Graaff
1992
Jan-Peter de Graaff studied music composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague under the tutelage of Guus Janssen, Calliope Tsoupaki and Diderik Wagenaar and at the Royal College of Music in London with Kenneth Hesketh. He graduated in 2016 (MMus) with the prize-winning opera “All Rise!” (Nicolaï fund award, 2016). Next to his composition studies he studied orchestral conducting with Alex Schillings and Lukas Groen. In 2018 he won the International Rostrum of Composers prize (under 30 cat
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