Marion Verbruggen
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Marion Verbruggen is a Dutch recorder
player and teacher. Verbruggen was born in Amsterdam
and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She then studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
with Frans Brüggen
.
Upon completing her diplomas cum laude, she was invited to join the faculty at the Royal Conservatory. She now guest teaches there and gives master-classes and workshops throughout the world. Among her former students are leading recorder players such as Matthias Maute
.
Marion Verbruggen is today one of the world's leading soloists on the recorder. Her discography ranges from 17th century Spanish songs and theatre music to her own transcription
s of the cello suites by J.S. Bach. She is an ardent advocate of contemporary music.
Verbruggen made her conducting debut recently with the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Portland, Oregon
.
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
player and teacher. Verbruggen was born in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She then studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
The Royal Conservatory of The Hague is a conservatorium of music, providing higher education in music and dance, it is located in The Hague, Netherlands.-The Conservatory:...
with Frans Brüggen
Frans Brüggen
Frans Brüggen is a well-known Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.-Biography:Brüggen studied recorder and flute at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum. He also studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1955, at the age of 21, he was appointed professor at the Royal...
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Upon completing her diplomas cum laude, she was invited to join the faculty at the Royal Conservatory. She now guest teaches there and gives master-classes and workshops throughout the world. Among her former students are leading recorder players such as Matthias Maute
Matthias Maute
Matthias Maute is a virtuoso recorder player and composer.Maute was born in Ebingen, Germany and studied in Freiburg and Utrecht with Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen. In 1990 won first prize in the soloist category of the Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges, Belgium...
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Marion Verbruggen is today one of the world's leading soloists on the recorder. Her discography ranges from 17th century Spanish songs and theatre music to her own transcription
Transcription (music)
In music, transcription can mean notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated, as, for example, an improvised jazz solo. Further examples include ethnomusicological notation of oral traditions of folk music, such as Béla Bartók's and Ralph Vaughan Williams' collections of the national...
s of the cello suites by J.S. Bach. She is an ardent advocate of contemporary music.
Verbruggen made her conducting debut recently with the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
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External links
- Short biography of Marion Verbruggen on the Bach Cantatas site
- Brief bio and discography of Marion Verbruggen on the Harmonia Mundi site