Eric Boeren

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Musicians Talk: Trumpet

ByJohn Dikeman Media, Video

TRUMPET
Jarmo Hoogendijk, Jimmy Sernesky and Angelo Verploegen talk about natural embouchure, the amount of practice, motivation and injuries.

On tour, over dinner, in the car, in the train, at airports, during and after rehearsals musicians don’t tend to talk much about music, but when they do you get to hear ins and outs that somehow never seem to surface in articles.

Many thanks to Micha de Kanter and Philip ten Brink for the recordings and Seeltje van Boeckel for the editing.…

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Doek Composes – Emptier by Michael Moore

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Media

Doek composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska.

“Emptier was written after hearing news of Cor Fuhler’s passing. The title refers to both how life is during the Covid-19 pandemic and how it is without Mr. Fuhler.
It’s sappy, I know, and Cor would have hated it, but I remain true to myself, as Cor always was.”
Michael

Doek Composes
One of the main pillars of Doek is how improvising musicians deal with composed musical elements.…

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Musicians Talk: First episode, Piano

ByJohn Dikeman Media, Video

MUSICIANS TALK
On tour, over dinner, in the car, in the train, at airports, during and after rehearsals musicians don’t tend to talk much about music, but when they do you get to hear ins and outs that somehow never seem to surface in articles.

PIANO
Guus Janssen, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Michiel Braam and Marta Warelis talk about original ideas, teachers, teaching, the influence of other players (Willem Breuker, Tobias Delius), playing inside the piano for which Cor Fuhler (who passed away 6 days after recording this episode) had found nice solutions.…

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Happy New Year! Doek Guest Compilation

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Media


Happy New Year everyone!
Let’s celebrate with a new album in the Doek Composes series. This is the first of a series of guest compilations where we invite musicians from all over the world to perform the pieces from previous editions. Compositions of Eric Boeren, Kaja Draksler and John Dikeman are performed by Michael Foster, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Gianluca Elia, Alexander Hawkins, Marta Arpini, Jodi Gilbert, Frans Petter Eldh, Ava Mendoza, Jaap Blonk, Greg Ward, John Hughes, Jeb Bishop, Martin Küchen.…

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Doek Composes – Passage by Kaja Draksler

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Concerts

Doek Composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska

The second publication in this series on Doek RAW is composed by pianist Kaja Draksler. She wrote a piece called Passage. When we asked her to write a short text to accompany her composition, she created a poem by combining definitions from the Cambridge dictionary.

Passage

A way of escape.

The passage of time- the process of time going past.…

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Doek Composes – Enkhuizen by Eric Boeren

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Concerts

Doek Composes for solo improvisers, a new and ongoing series on Doek RAW featuring original artwork by Lena Czerniawska

The first publication in this series on our Bandcamp label Doek RAW is composed by cornettist Eric Boeren. He wrote a piece called Enkhuizen, which is a small town on the coast of the Ijsselmeer in the province of Noord-Holland in The Netherlands. Eric is, amongst many other things, an avid cyclist, and this is Eric’s explanation of how this composition came about:

“With my composition Enkhuizen I have tried to bring one of my theories into practice.…