Informationen zu "Jacques Vanherenthals Two Negro Spirituals Double Bass Quartet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1097
EAN: 9990093814732
Beschreibung
Jacques Vanherenthals (b.1948) began his musical career as a double bassist
at Antwerp Opera, now Flemish Opera, in 1969. From 1973-1988 he was at the
RTBF Symphony Orchestra, in 1988 he became Director of the Academy of
Nivelles and the following year was appointed Director of the Academy of
Music, Dance & Spoken Arts of Forest, where he headed the educational team
until June 2010. He also held the post of instructor in chamber music at the
Brussels Conservatory from 1984-2006. Along with his activities as a
virtuoso double bassist, he wrote numerous works for the instrument and in
1982 created the Brussels Double Bass Quartet, with which played, for ten
years, over 300 concerts with the Jeunesses Musicales and many others in
Louisiana, Quebec, Ontario, France, Italy and Belgium. From 1987-2005 he was
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of La Chapelle des Minimes, where
he conducted more than 160 cantatas as well as the great choral works of J.S.
Bach. He is also founder and Artistic Director of the Ensemble Orchestral de
Bruxelles which he created in 1994 with fellow bassist Eric Demesmaeker and
musicologist Richard Dehon.
