Amsterdam - The Amstel Quartet and Ties Mellema/Wijnand Van Klaveren played a succesful half recital in the 'Young Dutchmen' series in the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on October 28th.
The whole concert will compete against the other 'Young Dutchmen' in the series for the Mees Pierson Award (€10.000,-). The others are: Tjeerd Top (violin), Lavinia Meijer (harp)and Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Matthijs van de Woerd (baritone). The winners will be announced on June 3rd 2007 in the Concertgebouw.

Yesterday we did a concert at the Royal Concertgebouw and it was good

Yesterday we did a concert at the Royal Concertgebouw and it was good. I feel ok about it. I live towards this concert for a year I think but we did good. Before the break I played with Wijnand and after with the quartet. It was the Young Dutchmen series, so it was very exciting. At the end of the season we might win a prize. There 4 other young dutchmen in the series and we compete 'against' them (ao Thomas Oliemans!)

I thought the tension was over now, but in Decmeber I have another important concert! with a completely different programma. Luckily a programma which I have done many times before!