Rudolf Jansen

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Rudolf Jansen is a Dutch pianist born in Arnhem on the 19th of january in 1940. He studied piano, organ and harpsichord simultaneously at the Amsterdam Conservatoire (now the Sweelinck Conservatoire). His teachers were Nelly Wagenaar, his father Simon C. Jansen, Felix de Nobel and Gustav Leonhardt. His studies were crowned by two Prix d'Excellence, one for piano and one for organ. In 1965 he was awarded the Toonkunst Jubileumprijs, in 1966 the "Zilveren Vriendenkrans" by the Friends of the Concertgebouw. He won in The Edison award twice: in 1973 (with Han de Vries, oboe) and 1987 (with Dorothy Dorrow) The Edison award. As well as being a solo performer, Rudolf Jansen has gradually come to specialize in Lied accompaniment and chamber music. He travels the world over with concert tours in which he accompanies highly reputed artists such as Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Han de Vries, Peter Schreier, Andreas Schmidt, Olaf Bär, Tom Krause, Brigitte Fassbänder, Barbara Bonney, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Edith Wiens and Jean-Pierre Rampal.

He teaches at the Sweelinck Conservatoire and regularly gives masterclasses for song/piano duos in The Netherlands and abroad.

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