Musicians

trumpet P. Masseurs F. Damrow H. Alting B. Langenkamp

horn J. Slagter J. de Waal F. Verspaandonk J. v.d. Vliet S. St. Onge

trombone J. van Rijen I. Meylemans N. Schippers B. Claessens R. Munnecom

tuba P. Hoogendijk

Ivan Meylemans Ivan Meylemans was born is 1971 in Geel, Belgium. He studied percussion, piano, trombone and conducting at the “Lemmen Institute” in Leuven en at the conservatories in Gent and the Hague.

Ivan has won prizes at many national competitions including the ‘Tenuto’ competition. He has been solo trombonist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since 1994. As a soloist Ivan has performed with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Nieuw Sinfonietta, the BRTN Phiharmoin Orchestra and in 1997 he performed the European premier of Christopher Rouse’s trombone concerto with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin.. Recently Ivan’s conducting career has gained considerable momentum. He is a sought after guest conductor by many renowned orchestras in the Netherlands and elswhere. He has conducted the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Holland Symfonia, the Rotterdam Chamber Orcheatra, the Beethoven Academy, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Flemish Symphony Orchestra and Flemish Radio Orchestra, the Filharmonie, the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Next season he will be guest conductor of the Gelders Orchestra, Brabant Orchestra, and again the Fiharmonie, the Flemish Radio Orchestrra and the Rottterdam Philharmonic among others. In the meantime Ivan has been appointed chief conductor of the chamber ochestra ‘Collegium Instrumentale Brugense’. Since 2004 Ivan has been the cover conductor for Mariss Jansons and in June 2005 he received the ‘Prix de Salon 2005’ which he will use this season to record a CD of the Royal Concertebouw Orchestra Brass.