Roeland Dujine
Roeland performed de Meij's "Cassanova for Cello and Wind Orchestra" with The Philharmonic Winds on the 7th and 8th of December 2002 at the Singapore Conference Hall.

Roeland Duijne began to play the cello at the age of nine. He studied with Tibor de Machula, Anner Bijlsma (Royal Conservatory of The Hague), Maurice Gendron (Paris Conservatory) and Janos Starker (Indiana University, Bloomington).

He made his official debut in 1984 as soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto on a nation-wide tour of Holland with the National University Orchestra. This was followed by numerous performances, many of them televised, at home and abroad.

Roeland Duijne performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez. He is a member of the Quintette de Paris, with which he played throughout France. For the past few years he has been Principal Cellist of the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Several tours have taken him to the Far East; he appeared as soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Shanghai, Beijing, Canton and Bangkok. With the pianist Rie Tanaka, he performed in Sapporo and Tokyo.

Roeland has always had a great interest in jazz and pop music. He recorded Friedrich Gulda’s Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra with the German Jugendblasorchester Nordrhein-Westfalen after joining them on their recent American tour. His composition Mellow Cello explores the wealth of pop-music and was uniquely written for this band.

Roeland Duijne plays a Giuseppe Sgarbi cello made in 1853.

* profile correct as of 8 Dec 2002

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