Marius van Paassen

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Study with Van Paassen in Enschede

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Van Paassen made his debut in the well-known Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Tchaikovsky’s first piano-concerto in 1982. This concert was attended by members of the royal family. He appeared frequently as a soloist with symphony and radio orchestras in the Netherlands and abroad in the years following his debut. World Wild Life Fund carried on a campaign using his first solo album, "The animal in 20th century piano-music'. This CD was broadcasted by many radio-stations and sold out in no time. This was an occasion for Van Paassen to make several front-pages.He was invited to festivals in France (Consonances) Rumania (George Enescu) and the Netherlands (NSDM, Nederlandse muziekdagen, Cristofori/ AVRO pianofestival, kamermuziek in het groen).He participated several times in theatre productions by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.

One of the big projects in his professional life was the Anton Rubinstein project, which started in 1981. Van Paassen has tried to accomplish a revaluation of the Russian composer Anton Rubinstein (1829- 1894) from St-Petersburg. This resulted in two CD's, radio- performances of Rubinsteins piano-concertos and chamber-music and solo-recitals in a number of European countries (Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Rumania and Sweden, The Netherlands). In 1994, 100 years after Rubinstein’s death, Van Paassen gave a master class in Petersburg at the conservatory founded by Rubinstein.

In 1996 Van Paassen had the honour to inaugurate the old, renovated House of Parliament with 'Le Bal', opus 14 by Anton Rubinstein. His performance was attended by Prime Minister Wim Kok and many other prominent politicians.

In 1998 Van Paassen gave a recital in Amsterdam, entirely devoted to his own compositions. The concert took place in the ‘IJsbreker’, the well known centre for contemporary music, which now operates under a new name on a new location: het muziekgebouw. Dutch radio (VPRO) recorded the recital and this recording was released as a live recording by attacca: ‘the Amsterdam recital’.

In 2009 he collaborated with the young composer Paul Oomen en sound artist and DJ ‘Salvador’ (Breed) with appearances ao at ‘Earport Amsterdam’ and EKSTATIC AUDITORIA/ THE NIGHT CHURCH at ‘Smart Project Space’ in Amsterdam.

Marius van Paassen made many recordings for Dutch radio at nearly all national broadcasting organisations : AVRO, VPRO, KRO, EO, NCRV, VARA, VERONICA, TROS, NOS, NOB etc. His CD's have also been broadcasted on news-radio, which is quite special for a classical pianist nowadays.

Conductors he worked with (selection): Ronald Zollman, Lucas Vis, Louis Stotijn, Alexandrou Munteanu,Kenneth

Montgomery, Roland Kieft, Anton Kersjes, Hein Jordans, Jules van Hessen, Zsolt Deaky Alexander Anissimov.

Marius van Paassen is piano professor at the ArtEZ conservatory Enschede(The Netherlands) and teaches piano in his private piano-school (ABC piano-school) in Amsterdam . There is more on this, see contents.

He received his first piano lessons from Mrs van der Minnen in Utrecht and Mrs Ans Verbeek also in Utrecht. After two years at the university of Amsterdam ( subjects: psychology, philosophy and sociology) he started his professional study as a soloist at the music academy in Amsterdam (Hans Dercksen for 5 very instructive years, one instructive year with Willem Brons, a course with Daniel Wayenberg organised by Dutch radio, subject playing a piano concerto with a radio orchestra). His final exam was one of the best of several years and did win him cum laude. Afterwards Dutch Government enabled him to continue his study in Germany with one of the wisest and finest teachers in Germany: Hans Leygraf.