profile

After completing my degree in engineering I decided to follow my heart and persue a carreer as a professional bassoon and contrabassoon player. Since 2019 I study at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in the bassoon studio of Simon Van Holen. I'm a hard worker and try to orientate my as broadly as possible, both musically and intelectually.

Educational background

2019: BMus Classical Bassoon, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, CvA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2016-2019: MSc Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

2013-2016: BSc Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

2006-2013: HAVO and VWO, Atheneum, Sondervick college, Veldhoven, the Netherlands.

Courses and projects

2021-2022: Crowfunding: Een nieuwe fagot voor Evert!, Voordekunst.nl, crowdfunding for my new bassoon

2020: Deep learning specialization, Coursera, Deeplearning.ai:

• Neural networks and machine learning
• Improving deep neural networks
• Structuring machine learning projects
• Convolutional neural networks
• Sequence models

2020: Machine learning, Coursera, Stanford Online.

Boards and committees

2022: CODA, Cash controll committee, Vereniging voor CvA studenten.

2021-2022: CODA, treasurer, Vereniging voor CvA studenten, the associations first treasurer.

2017-2021: NeSP, treasurer and relation management, Nederlands Symfonieproject.