Pieter van Loenen & Tobias Borsboom
Biography Pieter van Loenen & Tobias Borsboom
Pieter van Loenen
Dutch violinist Pieter van Loenen graduated summa cum laude from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 2016 and was awarded a special prize for the best exam of the year by this institution. In the same year, Pieter won Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Dutch Oskar Back National Violin Competition, where the jury lauded his playing as “exceptionally energetic and deeply musical”. He is currently active as a soloist and as a chamber musician, both at home and abroad, most recently on tours to the United States and China. In 2018, he was Young Artist in Residence of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra. Pieter won the Dutch Classical Talent Audience Award 2019, with a solo recital programma which he performed in all the major halls of the country.
Pieter started playing the violin at the age of 6 under the guidance of Koosje van Haeringen, and continued his studies with Vera Beths in The Hague and Terje Moe Hansen in Oslo, Norway. From a young age, Pieter has won prizes at all the national violin competitions. In 2010, Pieter won 1st prize in the National Final of the prestigious Prinses Christina Competition.
Over the past several years, Pieter has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras throughout the Netherlands, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, Domestica Rotterdam, the Dutch Student Orchestra, the South Holland Symphony Orchestra and the Hodonínský Symfonický Orchestr from the Czech Republic. Most memorable among the concertos he performed are the Beethoven, Berg, Stravinsky and Paganini violin concertos.
He is in a succesful duo with accomplished pianist Tobias Borsboom. In 2016, he appeared as a (musical) soloist in the first virtual reality ballet in the world, an innovative project with the Dutch National Ballet that connects the different art forms of ballet, music and virtual reality film.
Pieter has always had a special affinity with contemporary music. In 2012, he played Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII for violin on a national festival dedicated to Berio’s work. Furthermore, he has had the opportunity to work with pianist and conductor Reinbert de Leuuw on numerous occasions. In december 2015, Pieter played the Dutch premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Double concerto for violin and piano.
Pieter plays on a violin built by Marc de Sterke in 2011. He plays with an Eugène Sartory bow on a generous loan from the Dutch Music Instruments Foundation.
Tobias Borsboom
is one of the best-known young Dutch pianists, performing extensively both as a soloist and in other capacities. In 2015 he made his debut in all the major concert halls of the Netherlands as a soloist in Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F with the Dutch Student Orchestra conducted by Quentin Clare. With violinist Piotr Jasiurkowski he played the Masters on Tour series of The International Holland Music Sessions (2013-2014), and in 2015, after being nominated twice, he won the prestigious Dutch Classical Talent Award for his solo performance as well as the audience award with his duo partner Piotr Jasiurkowski. With pianoduo partner Yukiko Hasegawa he recently got chosen as one of the Shizuoka Masters “Shizuoka no meishutachi” in Japan.
In recent years, Tobias Borsboom has been successful at several other competitions. With Piotr Jasiurkowski he won the audience award and the Who's Next Award at the Almere Chamber Music Competition (NL, 2015) and he was awarded first prize at the Grand Dominique (NL, 2012). Additionally, he was a prize winner at the Young Pianist Foundation Piano Competition (3rd prize and prize for best interpretation of a Dutch work, NL, 2010), the Concertgebouw Entree Kamermuziek Concours (NL, 2006) and the Prinses Christina Concours (NL, 2005).
In 2013, Tobias Borsboom completed his Master's degree at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam, where he studied with Jan Wijn. He has taken lessons with such renowned pianists as Paolo Giacometti, Maria João Pires, Klaus Hellwig, Jan Boguslaw Strobel, Georg Friedrich Schenck and Geoffrey Douglas Madge.
Tobias Borsboom performs regularly at many festivals, and concert venues in The Netherlands, and abroad. Additionally, he performs regularly in various theatre productions, both for adults and for children, of which the latest is a music theatre production called “The Schubertians & The Housewarming 1826”.
