Ian de Jong

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Violinist

1 hour

2x3m

NL, EN

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Dutch-American, conservatory-trained violinist and viola player Ian de Jong has built his reputation with performances that are uninterruptedly moving while measuring up to the highest professional standards. Each project is seen as a new challenge, an opportunity for development and exploration as an artist. From many years of experience, Ian has performed live music on various solo and orchestral stages, at wedding ceremonies and birthday parties, at funerals, cremations or burials and countless other occasions. Clients who hire this violinist describe his work as "intense," "creative" and "very convincing." Ian has extensive experience in both solo playing, chamber music and orchestra.

In the U.S., Ian has played solo concerts with the Windy City String Ensemble, the Merit Symphony Orchestra and the DePaul Baroque Ensemble, among others. In the Netherlands, as concertmaster of the Ricciotti Ensemble, Ian regularly plays concerts, solo pieces and other solos with the orchestra, collaborating with such artists as Spinvis and Liesbeth List. In Chicago, he has played solo recitals on series at Unity Temple and the Nineteenth Century Club, in addition to annual recitals associated with his studies at DePaul University. As a chamber musician, he has been a member of the Oberon trio and the Merit Honors trio, and as an undergraduate music student he played everything from a duo to an octet. He received additional chamber music training at the Icicle Creek and Round Top summer music festivals in 2008 and 2009. Since March 2011, Ian has played in the new group HENS, a band that performs as an Andrew Bird tribute band in addition to original songs.

also working as an orchestral musician, Ian has played as concertmaster and captain of the Ricciotti Ensemble, the Unico Ensemble, the DePaul chamber and opera orchestras, and most recently as a tutti player with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the North Dutch Orchestra, Philharmonie Zuid, Ludwig, the Magogo Chamber Orchestra, the Laurens Orchestra, the Netherlands Youth Orchestra, the Ciconia Consort, The North Pole Orchestra, the Promenade Orchestra and Philharmonia Amsterdam. In the studio, Ian has played for such artists as David Guetta, Charlie Puth, Celine Dion, Ellen ten Damme, Mr. Probz, David Garrett, Rihanna and Liesbeth List. Ian has also played for the live broadcast on NOS of the commemoration at Kamp Westerbork, and the TV programs De Wereld Draait Door, Pauw, Podium Witteman, Vermist and the Streets of Amsterdam.

ian's training as a musician is international and diverse. As an eight-year-old, he began violin lessons at the Amstelveen Music School, as one of the first students of Wiesje Miedema, now a teacher of methodology at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 1999 Ian's family moved to Chicago, where he was taught by Michael Hining, Guillaume Combet, and Robert Waters. Always looking to expand his musical possibilities, Ian also received jazz violin lessons from Steve Gibons of Chicago's Gypsy Rhythm Project. With Robert Waters as his principal study teacher, Ian graduated magna cum laude from the DePaul University conservatory in 2010 with a bachelor of music degree. After completing his studies, Ian made the decision to continue his career in the Netherlands. Living in Amsterdam since 2010, Ian earned a Bachelor of Music from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2012 and a Master of Music from Codarts Rotterdam with Gordan Nikolic (violin) and Gijs Kramers (viola) in 2016.

ian has been playing an 1880 Voller Brothers violin on loan from the National Musical Instrument Fund since July 2011. In addition to music, Ian is an English teacher, editor, and translator at the English Center in Amstelveen.

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