Live bassoon masterclass of the Riga Jurmala Online Music Academy with Simon Van Holen, the solo-contrabassoon player of the Concertgebouworkest.
Simon Van Holen received his first bassoon lessons at the age of eight. From 2003 on he studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, later at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf with Gustavo Núñez, where he graduated in 2010. Van Holen was invited for the Zermatt Festival Academy and the Gustav Mahler Akademie. In 2011 Simon Van Holen was appointed solo contrabassoonist at the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and since 2012 he holds the same position at the Concertgebouworkest.
More about the artists: www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/simon-van-holen
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Student of the masterclass:
Edgars Karpenskis-Allažs, JVLMA, A.Arnicāns class
Repertoire:
🎼 M. Arnold – Fantasy for solo bassoon
Edgars Karpenskis-Allažs is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in professor's Andris Arnicāns class. He is also regularly playing with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic Orchestra and the Meritum Quintet.
As part of the Erasmus+ exchange program he has studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with professors Sebastian Stevensson and Audun Halvorsen.
Edgars has taken part in masterclasses with such world-renowned musicians as Gustavo Nunez, Bram van Sambeek, Fredrik Ekdal, Rie Koyama, and many others.
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