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Daan van Koppen

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Name: Daan van Koppen Main Subject: Classical Saxophone Research Coach: Karts de Jong Titel of Research: The Dutch Saxophone and Repertoire Research Question: Is there a typical Dutch sound and what are the influences of the composers. Why do all modern saxophone players only play transcriptions? What happened with the Dutch saxophone repertoire. Summary of Results: In the beginning of my Master studies, I reached a moment that I did not know any more what kind of pieces I could study. When I was busy with searching for new pieces to play, I came out with some great Dutch pieces and I am started to wonder why a lot of these pieces are almost never played again. It’s such I pity that nowadays many new conservatory students are only busy with the French repertoire and do not realise that there are also a lot of great Dutch compositions. At the moment, most of the classical saxophone players only play transcriptions, from clarinet and oboe sonatas and string quartets arrangements. But why are we doing this? Why are we pretending like if we are on other instrument? In my research I will tell a bit about the background and how it all started and try to find out what the situation was now and then with Dutch saxophone playing and repertoire. I did an interview with the first Dutch saxophone legend Ed Bogaard and the legend from now Arno Bornamp. I give some examples of Dutch pieces from important composes like the concerto from Tristan Keuris and Hout from Louis Andriessen. And I made a Dutch repertoire catalogue to promote the Dutch music and hopefully stimulate saxophone players and make them aware how many great Dutch pieces are written. Biography: Daan van Koppen was born in 1990 in Poeldijk, Netherlands. He is studying classical Saxophone at the Royal Conservatorie in The Hague with David Kweksilber and Frank Timpe. Also he followed lessons with Leo van Oostrom. He followed masterclasses with Kyle Horch, Martin Erikson, Jörgen Pettersson and Sascha Armbuster. For three months he followed the Erasmus course at the Royal College of Music in Londen studying with Kyle Horch. Daan is a member of “The Hague Saxophone quartet” and is the main baritone saxophone player of the Trompetterkorps der Koninklijke Marechaussee. As a saxophone teacher, Daan teaches at various music schools in the South of Holland. In the summer of 2011 he went with a project saxophone quartet to Macau (China) where they gave concerts, workshops and lessons.

type	research exposition
date	01/01/2015
published	28/05/2015
last modified	28/05/2015
status	limited publication
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url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/137179/137180
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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