HARRO RUIJSENAARS - cello

From 1977 - 1989 Harro Ruijsenaars was principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, a position he relinquished to concentrate on his solo career and to take up professorships at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, and the Music Department of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In Gothenburg he teaches chamber music and cello. From 1998 until 2002 he was guest professor cello at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. After finishing his professorship in Denmark in 2001, he started teaching at the masters programme of the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, combining this professorship with the position of parttime principal cellist in the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague.

Born in 1945 in Holland, near Haarlem, Ruijsenaars studied the cello with Maurice Gendron from 1964 - 1967.

His career as a soloist has brought him to most European countries, to USA, the former Soviet Union and the Far East, performing under the batons of such distinguished maestros as Antal Dorati, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Neeme Järvi, Hans Vonk and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. His repertoire includes more than 30 cello concertos.

As a chamber musician he played as extra cellist with the Alban Berg - and Orlando String Quartets, Nash Ensemble, Archi Budelli, duo and trio with pianists Ronald Brautigam, Roland Pöntinen, Viktoria Postnikova and Rian de Waal, violinists Rostislaw Dubinsky, John Harding, Victor Liberman and Jaap van Zweden, with violist Nobuko Imai and cellist Anner Bijlsma.

(February 2007)


CD:
Mozart, Schubert, Schumann: Complete works for cello and piano (with R Pöntinen)
- Canal Grande
Moods for cello (piano Erik Risberg) : encore pieces
-Intim Musik , Sweden

R Escher: Sonata concertante for cello and piano (with R Brautigam)
- Donemus Composer's Voice
J S Bach: Solo suite
- Amsterdam Classic
*) M Reger, E Ysaye: Complete solo works
- Classico DK
Liszt: original works and transcriptions for cello and piano
- Classico DK

J Brahms, A Dvorak: Trios op. 8, op.65 (with T Givskov, violin, J Damgaard, piano)
- Classico, DK

*) see "The Strad" November 1998

Photos for PR use

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