Jeroen de Groot

Music is a moral law.
It gives soul to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination
and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

- Plato -

Music knows no truth, only suggestion.
Here lies the key that gives us access to creation and renewal, again and again.
And only when we are true to ourselves, we can make something that is also meaningfull to others.

- Jeroen de Groot -

There are mysterious powers,
vibrations and radiations that influence my feeling
and that I, the humble human being that I am, cannot grasp at all.

- Sándor Vègh -

You can only teach someone
something that he already knows.

- Ivry Gitlis -

Track from the new Bach-album: solo sonate in g: fuga

Jeroen de Groot, The Netherlands 1961, studied at Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers from the age of 11. After winning the prestigious Oscar Back competition in 1985 he continued his studies with Sandor Vegh in Salzburg and Ivry Gitlis in Paris.
During this period he was prizewinner at competitions in Munich, Scheveningen, Concertgebouw and Bordeaux.

The past year he has been working on the launch of his new CD of the Bach solo Sonates and Partitas. The interpretation of this ‘Bible’ for the violin is always on his mind. In concerts in which he plays three up to six of the sonates his fresh approach to this masterpiece is renowned.

To make Bach more approachable, Jeroen together with the actress Carla Hardy has developed a new music-theatre production 'Bach Stress'. 'Unexpected and unorthodox, the public is challenged to look at Bach with fresh eyes'.

Movement, spontaneity, warmth and communication are the keywords for this artist.

Concertos by

Bach
Beethoven
Bruch
Berg
Brahms
Bartók
Dutillieux
Elgar
Glazunov
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Prokofiev
Schumann
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Vieuxtemps
Vivaldi
Walton
Wieniawsky

Sonatas for violin and piano

Mozart: c-dur, bes-dur and a-moll
Beethoven
Brahms
Debussy
Franck
Grieg nos 2 and 3
Ravel
Fauré
Händel
Prokofiev Schubert Fantasie in c-dur, Grand duo sonata in a-dur
Strauss
Schumann a-moll
Corelli d-dur and La Folia
and many others.

Solo repertoire

Bach
Ysaÿe
Prokofiev
Paganini

Encore pieces by

Wieniasky, Kreisler, Sarasate and many others.

agenda

24-06-2017	20:00u	Recital met pianiste Ketevan Sharumashvili in Blankenheim, Duitsland
13-05-2017	20:15u	Recital met Brook Cuden in Dromedaris Enkhuizen, tevens benefietconcert voor de stichting IRYO
23-04-2017	11:00u	Recital in de Hofzaal van het Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom
24-03-2017	20:30u	Solo Bach-Recital in Apollo First Theater, Amsterdam
Jan-Feb '17		19 Recitals in Duitsland
09-11-2016	20:00u	Presentatie nieuwe Bach CD's met DVD in RMO, Leiden
06-11-2016	20:30u	Beethoven recital in Theater Posa, Lelystad
25-09-2016	3:00u	Solo Bach-Recital Theater Kleintje Kunst, Hilversum
05-06-2016	15:00u	Recital met pianiste Brook Cuden in 't Waarhuis te Aduarderzijl
28-05-2016	20:15u	Recital te Bennebroek
21-05-2016	19:00u	Bach, Kreisler, Waxman en ? tijdens Vioolnacht RMO Leiden
15-05-2016	14:30u	Recital in theater Posa te Lelystad
21-03-2016	20:15u	Bach solo-recital in de Stulpkerk te Lage Vuursche
13-03-2016	14:30u	Beethoven recital in Theater De Purmaryn te Purmerend
21-02-2016	15:00u	Bach Recital in Winterswijk
22-01-2016	20:15u	Bach Stress te Amersfoort
12-12-2015	20:30u	Beethoven Recital in Posthuistheater te Heerenveen
10-12-2015	19:30u	Concert met pianist Bart van de Roer in het RMO-Leiden
29-11-2015	14:30u	Beethoven Recital in Theater Markant te Uden
22-11-2015	11:00u	Beethoven Recital in Kunstkring Hilversum
1-11-2015	15:30u	Bach Stress met actrice Carla Hardy in Lentis te Zuidlaren
18-10-2015		Tour Portugal met pianist Bart van de Roer tot 25-10-2015
09-10-2015	20:30u	Beethoven Recital in het Apollo First Theater Amsterdam
17-05-2015	15:30u	Bach Stress in de Ontmoetingskerk Lentis te Zuidlaren
23-04-2015	20:15u	Beethoven Recital in Schouwburg de Kring te Roosendaal
15-03-2015	14:30u	Beethoven Recital in Theater de Purmaryn te Purmerend
12-03-2015	15:00u	Bach solo sonates en partitas tijdens Berlage festival
15-01-2015	14:30u	Beethoven Recital in Theater Markant te Uden
07-01-2015		Concerttour Duitsland tot 15-02-2015

Jeroen de Groot, Johan Sebastiaan Bach book, 2cd and dvd

J. S. Bach, Solo Sonates & Partitas
All-in-one-book: 2 CD's, a 1h documentary, text by Katja Reichenfeld. Released: October 2016 - ISBN: 9789038925578.
Listen to 60s fragments
Buy the book at bol.com

Solo sonate in g: fuga

The French Collection (double CD)
A combination of French Impressionistic sonates and romantic, virtuoso works has proved to be an international succes.

fragment: Francis Poulenc

Unforgettable

fragment: P. de Sarasate

Jean Wiéner: Chamber Music
Live recording in the Singer Museum Laren, 14 march 2001.
Ensemble Wiéner Mélange: Jeroen de Groot - viool, Taco Kooistra - cello, Ilona Stokvis - mezzosopraan, Marcel Worms - piano.

fragment: Trois dances, Java

teaching

Tijdens zijn studie aan het Conservatorium Amsterdam coachte Jeroen de Groot al, met succes, collega-studenten voor examens, audities en concoursen.
Wat is er belangrijker dan een goede balans, een systeem voor de linkerhand en arm, waardoor alles speelbaar wordt en blessures niet meer voorkomen. Streekvoering met elegantie en expressiviteit als doel. Interpretaties vanuit persoonlijke muzikale idee gesteund op eeuwenlange ontwikkeling.
Jeroen zet zich met hart en ziel in voor zijn leerlingen. Leerlingen die daar aan toe zijn, spelen op uitvoeringen en ook organiseert Jeroen kamermuziek-avonden waar leerlingen en leraar elkaar muzikaal uitdagen.

Jeroen geeft vioolles aan kinderen vanaf 12 jaar, gevorderde amateurs en professionals.

violinist@jeroendegroot.info
+31 (0)6 1209 3337

Contact

Jeroen de Groot
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Concert management
Paul Kaptein Producties

JDG-Records Artist Management
+31(0)6 2475 9326

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Music knows no truth, only suggestion. Here lies the key that gives us access to creation and renewal, again and again. And only when we are true to ourselves, we can make something that is also meaningfull to others.

There are mysterious powers, vibrations and radiations that influence my feeling and that I, the humble human being that I am, cannot grasp at all.

You can only teach someone something that he already knows.