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{Short description|Belgian leading clarinet-player}}

Roeland Hendrikx
Roeland Hendrikx
Roeland Hendrikx
Background information
Born (1969-05-26) 26 May 1969 (age 55)
Hamont, Belgium
Genres
Occupation(s)Clarinetist, soloist, professor
Instrument(s)Clarinet and Basset clarinet
LabelsEtcetera-records, EPR-Classic,[[1]]
Websitewww.roelandhendrikx.com

Roeland Hendrikx is a Belgian clarinet player.

Hendrikx was e-flat principal clarinet with the Orchestra of La Monnaie (National Opera) and principal clarinet of the Belgian National Orchestra for 14 years.

According to Diapason, Hendrikx's 2018 release of Mozart and Finzi's clarinet concertos and Bruch's double concerto “has it all: accuracy, lyricism, elegance”.[2]

In 2024 Hendrikx he created a new clarinet concerto of Robert Groslot on an album with the Brussels Philharmonic.

Roeland Hendrikx regularly creates Belgian chamber music for clarinet and also tries to promote this music. In 2001 he won the "Jeanne & Willem Pelemansprijs" for his efforts to spread Belgian music.

Hendrikx is main-subject professor at the Maastricht Conservatory (The Netherlands) and Luca School of Arts (Leuven, Belgium).

Biography

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Soloist

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Hendrikx has played as a soloist with Brussels Philharmonic, Prima la Musica, Casco Phil, Boho Strings, I Fiamminghi, the Beethoven Academy, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Flemish Radio Orchestra, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra Maastricht, Frascati Symphonic, the Georgia Philharmonic (USA), the Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Istanbul Festival Orchestra, the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany and the [1]https://www.amrg-vkmg.be/the-band/the-conductor/?lang=en, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, including in the context of the Flanders Limburg Festival, which proclaimed him festival star in 1998.

In October 2018, EPR Classic released his recording of the clarinet concertos of Mozart and Finzi and the double concerto of Max Bruch, which he recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Mozart with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Chamber Music

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Renowned artists and string quartets with whom Roeland Hendrikx has collaborated include Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, Severin Von Eckardstein, the Berliner Philharmoniker Streichquintett, France Springuel, Panocha Quartet, Tempera Quartet (Finland), Vega String Quartet (USA) and Danel Quartet. In 2015 he founded the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble, which focuses on the smallscale repertoire for clarinet, piano and strings.

Among his many chamber music recordings are the Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets with the Panocha String Quartet (Phaedra), the quintets of Weber and Bārmann, Mozart chamber music with the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble, and sonatas Debussy and Poulenc with duos by other French composers (all Etcetera), quintets by Reicha and Romberg with the Arriaga String Quartet, and the Clarinet Quintets of the Belgian composers Piet Swerts and Peter Cabus.

Teaching

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Roeland is teaching clarinet at the Maastricht Conservatory (The Netherlands) and the LUCA School of Arts in Leuven (Belgium). He has given masterclasses in Europe, China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the US (Juilliard School of Music NY, Manhattan School of Music NY, Long Beach University LA, De Paul Univ. Chicago, Yale University, Emory University Atlanta, Oklahoma University, Yale University, Miami University).

  1. ^ Groot harmonieorkest van de Belgische Gidsen
  2. ^ "Dedications".