Ton Hartsuiker 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...

 classical pianist, best known as a performer of 20th century classical music

20th century classical music

20th century classical music was without a dominant style and highly diverse.-Introduction:At the turn of the century, music was characteristically late Romantic in style. Composers such as Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of Post-Romantic Symphonic writing...

, composer, music school administrator and radio broadcaster. He was the director of both the Music Academy of Utrecht and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam

Conservatorium van Amsterdam

The Conservatorium van Amsterdam is a Dutch academy of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the city's vocational university of arts...

, and was also on the faculty of the Rotterdam Conservatoire. For many years he presented the program Musica Nova on Radio 4

Radio 4 (Netherlands)

Radio 4 is an NPO public-service radio network in the Netherlands. It chiefly broadcasts classical music.Radio 4 began transmissions on 28 December 1975 under the name Hilversum 4. Its first programme was produced by the Veronica broadcasting association...

, the Dutch classical radio station, for broadcasting organization NOS

Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting , English: Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation, is one of the broadcasters in the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system...

. He was the musical director of Ensemble M (1974-1978), which he founded with conductor David Porcelijn

David Porcelijn

David Porcelijn is a Dutch composer and conductor.David Porcelijn studied flute, composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague...

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He won the Genoco Prize in 1998. For his contributions to music in the Netherlands he was knighted by the Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands comprising the Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Aruba. She is the first daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She studied law at Leiden University...

 and received in 2002 the Hogenbijl Prize.

Among his many students, at his conservervatoires and as a private teacher, are Alwin Bär, Vera Kerstens, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven

Christiaan Kuyvenhoven

Christiaan Kuyvenhoven is a Dutch pianist.In April 2005 Kuyvenhoven won Third Prize at the prestigious International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, which took place in Utrecht for the seventh time. By winning the prize, Kuyvenhoven became the first Dutch pianist in sixteen years to win a prize at...

, Guus Janssen

Guus Janssen

Guus Janssen is a Dutch composer of contemporary music and a recording artist. A pianist and harpsichordist, he is also active as a jazz performer....

, Ralph van Raat, Christiaan Richter, Joey Roukens

Joey Roukens

Joey Roukens is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.Roukens studied composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatoire and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano privately with Ton Hartsuiker...

, Maarten van Veen and Arthur Jussen.