Jeroen de Groot & Bernd Brackman
Biographie Jeroen de Groot & Bernd Brackman
Jeroen de Groot
The Netherlands 1961, studied at Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers from the age of 11. After winning the prestigious Oscar Back competition in 1985 he continued his studies with Sandor Vegh in Salzburg and Ivry Gitlis in Paris. During this period he was prizewinner at competitions in Munich, Scheveningen, Concertgebouw and Bordeaux.
The past years he has been working on the launch of several new CD's eg the Bach solo Sonates and Partitas. The interpretation of this ‘Bible’ for the violin is always on his mind. In concerts in which he plays three up to six of the sonates his fresh approach to this masterpiece is renowned.
Movement, spontaneity, warmth and communication are the keywords for this artist. Since november 2016 Jeroen is the ambassador of the foundation 'Connect by Music'.
Bernd Brackman
Since the 1980s, Bernd Brackman (1960) has made a name for himself with his highly personal and experienced interpretations of the great piano repertoire. He received his training from his mother Frieda Brackman-Hoogerwerf, Jaap Spaanderman and from Jan Wijn, with whom he graduated from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1985. He perfected his knowledge with masters such as Vlado Perlemuter, Tamás Vásáry, György Sándor, Peter Feuchtwanger, Naum Grubert, Sergey Dorensky and Leon Fleisher. He has won many prizes, including the prestigious Elisabeth Evertsprijs (1984), the Jacques Vonk Concours in Amsterdam (1985) and, in 1997, an Edison for the CD of Dutch Music he made with flutist Jacques Zoon. As a soloist and chamber music player, Bernd Brackman performs frequently at home and abroad. In Johannesburg, for example, he played Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the National Orchestra of South Africa. His extensive solo repertoire ranges from Bach to Cage, with an emphasis on Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Skrjabin, Ravel and Messiaen.
