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well-being team have both feet firmly on the ground, but now it’s time to celebrate these great results together!’
common base. You are encouraged to come and listen to each other’s lessons. There are group lessons on orchestral excerpts, and technical and musical subjects such as breathing, sound concept and style
After studying the earlier submitted position papers and examinations, the visitation panels have spoken during these days with (delegations of) board and management, students, teachers, alumni/work field representatives and examination board. Both programmes were also able to present themselves in the form of a showcase with various performances. Both panels were enthusiastic about what they saw and heard and will recommend to renew the accreditations again for another six years. The special characteristic Interdisciplinarity, which was requested for both programmes, was seen by the panels as an extremely relevant development direction with which a good start has already been made, but which still requires further sharpening and elaboration. The programmes also received very useful feedback: for both bachelors to pay extra attention to the diversity of teams of teachers and student population, for the Bachelor of Music additionally to pay attention to the scheduling, to care for the teachers (interview cycle) and to look closely at vision, culture and organizational structure in their mutual coherence. On both days there were also explicit and heartfelt compliments for the work of the examination board.
Hans Leenders studied percussion at Rotterdam Conservatoire, where he graduated as a performing musician in 1995. He also studied orchestral conducting with, among others, Jorma Panula. In the same year, he received a permanent appointment as percussionist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, where he later also became assistant conductor to Valery Gergiev. Since 1997, he has been teaching at Codarts, Rotterdam's conservatoire. In 1998, Hans became a finalist in the prestigious international Kirill Kondrashin conducting competition, after which he conducted almost all Dutch professional orchestras. His debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra followed in 2004. A special moment was in 2008, when he conducted the National Liberation Concert with the students of the Codarts Symphony Orchestra, in the presence of Queen Beatrix. After winning the ‘international conducting competition Cadaqués’, an International career also followed. These included conducting the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the famous orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. One of his great passions is creating and performing musical theatre. In doing so, he conveys the beauty of (classical) music to young audiences in an accessible and creative way. Programme: - M. Mussorgsky Night on Bald mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) (1886) - B. Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Sz. 116 (1943) Length: 55 min.
