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Codarts
Codarts University for the Arts ( nl, Codarts hogeschool voor de kunsten) is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000. History Codarts can trace its origins to the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek (Rotterdam Conservatory of Music), popularly known as the Conservatorium Holthaus after its director, Jos Holthaus (1879-1943). In 1886 the German violinist Willy Hess took up a professorship in the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek which he held for two years. In 1930 the alternative Rotterdamsch Toonkunst Conservatorium (Rotterdam Musical Arts Conservatory) was founded with the composer Willem Pijper as director. The Rotterdamse Dansschool (Rotterdam Dance School) was established in 1931 by Corrie Hartong as director and the German dancer Gertrud Leistikow as a teacher. At first the dance school was part of the Conservatorium Holthaus. In 1935 the dance school transferred to Pijper's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codarts Big Band, Conducted By Ilja Reijngoud
Codarts University for the Arts ( nl, Codarts hogeschool voor de kunsten) is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000. History Codarts can trace its origins to the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek (Rotterdam Conservatory of Music), popularly known as the Conservatorium Holthaus after its director, Jos Holthaus (1879-1943). In 1886 the German violinist Willy Hess took up a professorship in the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek which he held for two years. In 1930 the alternative Rotterdamsch Toonkunst Conservatorium (Rotterdam Musical Arts Conservatory) was founded with the composer Willem Pijper as director. The Rotterdamse Dansschool (Rotterdam Dance School) was established in 1931 by Corrie Hartong as director and the German dancer Gertrud Leistikow as a teacher. At first the dance school was part of the Conservatorium Holthaus. In 1935 the dance school transferred to Pijper' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codarts University For The Arts
Codarts University for the Arts ( nl, Codarts hogeschool voor de kunsten) is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000. History Codarts can trace its origins to the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek (Rotterdam Conservatory of Music), popularly known as the Conservatorium Holthaus after its director, Jos Holthaus (1879-1943). In 1886 the German violinist Willy Hess took up a professorship in the Rotterdam Conservatorium voor Muziek which he held for two years. In 1930 the alternative Rotterdamsch Toonkunst Conservatorium (Rotterdam Musical Arts Conservatory) was founded with the composer Willem Pijper as director. The Rotterdamse Dansschool (Rotterdam Dance School) was established in 1931 by Corrie Hartong as director and the German dancer Gertrud Leistikow as a teacher. At first the dance school was part of the Conservatorium Holthaus. In 1935 the dance school transferred to Pijper's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havo Voor Muziek En Dans
(School for Music and Dance) formerly is a secondary school (havo) in Rotterdam, Netherlands that specializes in music and dance. It has about 200 pupils from all parts of the country. The shares a building and music and dance teachers with Codarts, the Conservatory of Music and Dance Academy. Program The provides a secondary school education in which music and dance are part of the daily curriculum. Students receive about seven hours of music lessons each week or fifteen hours of dance. It is a small school with an enrollment of about 200 students from across the country. The course prepares them for study at a conservatory or dance academy, but graduates must still pass entrance examinations to continue at the conservatory. Standard classroom subjects are taught using a fairly conservative or traditional approach, but exam results are above the national average. The school has two bridging classes - music and dance - and a bridging year. The school organizes regular perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Kaminski
Rafał Stanisław Kamiński (born November 8, 1990), known professionally as Ralph Kaminski, is a Polish singer-songwriter experimenting with musical styles, including alternative pop and chamber music. He is the recipient of the Grzegorz Ciechowski Artistic Award of the City of Toruń (2020) and two Fryderyk Awards during the 28th Fryderyk Awards Gala (2022). Early life Kaminski was born and raised in Jasło. His mother is a teacher. He has a younger brother, Wiktor. His cousin is a fellow singer Michał Szpak, Ralph himself confirmed this on the ''Kuba Wojewódzki'' talk show. He developed an interest in music as a child. At the age of 11, Kaminski started attending vocal classes at the Jasło Cultural Centre. He studied art and music before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 2010. Kaminski graduated from the Jazz and Popular Music Department at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. He also studied at the Pop Department of Codarts Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrie Hartong
Hendrina Cornelia (Corrie) Hartong (23 February 1906 – 9 August 1991) was a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer in the Netherlands. Biography Hendrina Cornelia Hartong was born in Rotterdam on 23 February 1906. She studied modern dance with Mary Wigman in Dresden. Mary Wigman's '' Ausdruckstanz'' expressionist modern dance style inspired Corrie Hartong and others to start their own dance schools and to develop performances themselves. Between 1928 and 1931 she taught in Chemnitz and Magdeburg. She then returned to Rotterdam to teach. In 1931 Hartong set up the Rotterdam School of Dance along with the German dancer and teacher Gertrud Leistikow, who was 21 years older. The two disagreed over objectives, and after three years Leistikow left. In 1935 the dance school became part of the Rotterdam Conservatory under Willem Pijper, with Hartong as director. She was to remain in this position until 1967. She initiated creation of the dance library to the Amsterdam The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"New Meuse"'' inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse first, but now to the Rhine instead. Rotterdam's history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by William IV, Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country. A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Europe's largest seaport. In 2020, it had a population of 651,446 and is home to over 180 nationalities. Rotterdam is known for its university, riverside setting, lively cultural life, maritime heritage and modern architecture. The near-complete destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Holo
Sander van Dijck (born 26 November 1990), better known by his stage name San Holo, is a Dutch DJ, musician, and record producer from Zoetermeer. He gained international recognition for his remix of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode", which currently has over 258 million views on YouTube. He has released music on several record labels including Spinnin' Records, Owsla, Barong Family, and Monstercat. He also founded Bitbird, a label which has released several of his singles including "Still Looking" and "Light (San Holo song), Light" and his debut album ''Album1''. San Holo's first EP, ''Cosmos'', was released via Heroic on 18 September 2014 and was in the Top 100 Electronic category of iTunes. San Holo's first album, ''Album1'', was released via Bitbird on 21 September 2018 and debuted at #7 on the ''Billboard'' Dance/Electronic Albums chart. In 2017, he was nominated at the Electronic Music Awards for New Artist of the Year. His second studio album, ''BB U OK?'' was released on 4 Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike Moriz
Eike Moriz (born May 14, 1972), better known as Ike Moriz, is a German-South African singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He has released 20 albums in the indie rock, pop, Latin, easy listening, dance, lounge, blues, jazz and swing genres. Early life Ike Moriz grew up in Wentorf near Hamburg, Germany. The son of the jewellers Kai and Waltraud Moriz attended the Wentorf primary school from 1978 and thereafter from 1982 the Wentorf grammar school, where he was also head boy from 1988 to 1989. During this time he acted in theatre plays directed by Hans Bittner, who was also his piano teacher. After graduating in 1991, he completed his compulsory one-year military service. From 1992 to 1993 he went to South Africa to work on his uncle's citrus farm in Clanwilliam in the Western Cape. Studies Returning to Hamburg, Moriz studied economics at the University of Hamburg from 1993 to 1995 and gave his first concerts as the lead singer of several rock bands. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Droomfabriek
''De Droomfabriek'' (The Dream Factory) is a 2007 Dutch documentary produced and directed by Netty van Hoorn about the students at the ''Havo voor Muziek en Dans'' (High School for Music and Dance) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was broadcast by Nederlandse Programma Stichting on the TV program ''Het Uur van de Wolf'' (The Hour of the Wolf) on 3 June 2007. Plot For forty years the ''Havo voor Muziek en Dans'' has given talented young people the opportunity to study music and dance in depth as well as following the normal high school curriculum, with the possibility of going on to the conservatory or dance academy. Each pupil dreams of becoming a professional dancer or musician. The children come from all over the country, and from all types of background. The film focuses on eight students: John, Lorenzo, Genelva, Paul, Misha, Alysh, Mickel and Rory. The camera gives a view of the pupils' daily life in the school as the camera "dances" between classrooms and practice rooms. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked (musical)
''Wicked'' is a 2003 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel '' Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'', in turn based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation. The show is told from the perspective of, and focuses on, the witches of the Land of Oz; its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy Gale arrives in Oz from Kansas. ''Wicked'' tells the story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (later Glinda the Good Witch), whose relationship struggles through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's private fall from grace. Produced by Universal Stage Productions, in coalition with Marc Platt, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone, with direction by Joe Mantello and choreog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willemijn Verkaik
Willemijn Verkaik (; born 16 June 1975) is a Dutch singer and actress. She is best known for her stage roles in ''Wicked'' and '' Elisabeth'', and for providing the singing voice for Elsa in both the German and Dutch versions of Disney's '' Frozen''. She was the longest running Elphaba in the musical ''Wicked'', having played the role over 2,000 times, and is the only person to have played the role in three languages. Her first performance as Elphaba was on 31 October 2007, in Stuttgart, Germany, and her final performance was on 22 July 2017 in the West End of London. Early life Verkaik was born in Son en Breugel, Netherlands, on 16 June 1975, and grew up in Nuenen near Eindhoven. She graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatory."Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Van Der Vliet
Henk van der Vliet (born 1928) is a Dutch flautist and composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Rotterdam, Van der Vliet began musical studies on the accordion when attending the Rotterdam Toonkunstmuziekschool. He chose the flute as his instrument and commenced studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music Codarts University for the Arts ( nl, Codarts hogeschool voor de kunsten) is a Dutch vocational university in Rotterdam that teaches music, dance and circus. It was established in its present location in 2000. History Codarts can trace its origin ... in 1945 and graduated in 1950. He studied under Jan van Dijk and Johan Feltkamp.Muziek Encyclopedie"Biography Henk van der Vliet" Retrieved 21 July 2013. After graduation, he taught the flute and played with the Rotterdam Kamerorkest (Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra). Starting in 1965, he began to compose music—without having had any previous studies in composition, he is a self-taught composer. References 1928 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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