Jeroen Van Veen
Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen is a leading figure in Western European minimalism, both as pianist and as composer. Fanfare has called him the leading exponent of minimalism in Holland today. Van Veen was born May 2, 1969, in Herwen en Aerdt in the Netherlands. He took up piano at seven and studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Alwin Bär and Håkon Austbø, passing exams in 1993. Van Veen went on to take master classes with Roberto Szidon, Claude Helffer, and Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl; the latter prepared him for work with his brother Maarten, and with Sandra Mol as Duo van Veen, which has had particular success in the U.S. and won the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami. Festival appearances at the Reder Piano Festival (1988), the Festival der Kunsten in Bad Gleichenberg (1992), Wien Modern (1993), and the Holland Dance Festival (1998) cemented his reputation among audiences, and he has been a fixture at the Lek Art Festival. Van Veen has played recitals in Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, and the U.S., and he has performed orchestral concerts conducted by modern composers Peter Eötvös and Robert Craft. Van Veen co-founded the biannual International Student Piano Competition in 1995 and remains its artistic director.
Van Veen's recording career began in 1992 with Duo van Veen. He has recorded for various Dutch labels, in particular the budget imprint Brilliant. For that label he recorded a nine-volume Minimal Piano Collection, released in 2006. He has also issued recordings of music by major minimalist composers, including the crossover composer Ludovico Einaudi and, in 2018, John Adams. Van Veen also released a performance of his own works in 2014. His music falls loosely under the minimalist banner with influences from jazz, trance music, pop, blues, and more. In 2019, Van Veen honored Japanese film composer Ryiuchi Sakamoto with a collection of solo piano interpretations called Sakamoto: For Mr. Lawrence Piano Music.
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Douwe Eisenga: The Piano Files
Jeroen Van Veen, Marcel Worms, Sandra van Veen
Classical - Released by Zefir Records on 1 May 2009
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Canto Ostinato: Live in Veldhoven
Jeroen Van Veen, Sandra van Veen, Irene Russo, Fred Oldenburg
Chamber Music - Released by Jeroen Van Veen on 30 Jun 2015
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Minimal Piano Works, Vol. I
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productions on 7 Jul 1999
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Canto Ostinato (Two Piano Version) [Live]
Jeroen Van Veen, Sandra van Veen
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productiond on 6 Nov 2020
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Minimal Piano Works, Volume II
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productions on 17 Sep 2000
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Piano & Hang
Jeroen Van Veen, Peter Elbertse
New Age - Released by Van Veen Productions on 26 Jan 2009
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Soloduiveldans II / Aforisme II
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productions on 1 Oct 2012
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Canto Ostinato for Solo Piano
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productions on 1 Aug 2012
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Live at Beauforthuis
Jeroen Van Veen, Mike del Ferro
Jazz - Released by Van Veen Productions on 5 Apr 2015
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Canto Ostinato (Live in Bergen)
Jeroen Van Veen, Sandra van Veen
Lounge - Released by Vanveenproductions on 1 Dec 2014
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In Naam Van Oranje
Jeroen Van Veen, Tamara Rumiantsev
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productions, Pianomania on 10 Oct 2001
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Piano Concerto Continuum
Jeroen Van Veen, Blow Up Flute Octet
Chamber Music - Released by Jeroen Van Veen on 30 Jun 2015
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Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Arr. By Dan Coates & Jeroen van Veen)
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 3 Nov 2023
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White Christmas (Arr. By Jeroen Van Veen)
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 10 Nov 2023
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Satie: Complete Vexations 1-840
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 13 May 2016
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Dark Night
Classical - Released by Van Veen Productions on 25 Sep 2012
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Soundtrack Jaar Van De Kreeft
Classical - Released by Jeroen Van Veen on 1 Apr 2015
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