Maaike Aarts
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Maaike Aarts is a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 violinist. She is a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a symphony orchestra of the Netherlands, based at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In 1988, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands conferred the "Royal" title upon the orchestra...

, for which she plays as a first violin, since December 2004.

She was briefly a member of the heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Celestial Season
Celestial Season
Celestial Season is a Dutch heavy metal band. They were formed in 1991 as a doom/death metal band along the lines of My Dying Bride. They have been described as doom metal, death/doom, stoner rock/metal and goth. Celestial Season disbanded in 2002....

, playing in their 1995 releases Solar Lovers
Solar Lovers
Solar Lovers is the second full length album by the Dutch doom metal band Celestial Season. It was released on Displeased Records in 1995. The My Dying Bride influences diminished on this, although the violins are still prominent on the album; the band incorporated some more stoner influences here....

 and Sonic Orb
Sonic Orb
Sonic Orb is the EP by the Dutch doom metal band Celestial Season. It was released on Displeased Records in 1995. This was the first album featuring new vocalist Cyril Crutz and changing style to stoner metal, while old doom metal influences are still strong.- Track listing :# Astral Dub - 04:26#...

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