Marcel Worms
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Marcel Worms (born Amsterdam, 1951) is a piano player from the Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.marcelworms.com/cv-en.html|publisher=Virtuele zaken|accessdate=16 April 2012|title=CV}}
Education
After completing secondary education at the Vossius Gymnasium, Worms started studying Biology. He became a biology teacher at the Gymnasium Felisenum until 1985. At that time he decided to go to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam; he finished the Conservatory in 1987 mainly taught by Hans Dercksen. Thereafter he specialised in 20th-century piano music and chamber music respectively with Alexandre Hrisanide and Hans Broekman. He also took lessons from the famous Russian pianist Yuri Egorov, and from Alicia de Larrocha.{{cite web|url=http://www.challengerecords.com/artists/1218788838 |title=Marcel Worms |publisher=Challenge Records International |date=16 March 2000 |accessdate=16 April 2012}}
Blues project
His program "New Blues for piano", to which many well-known Dutch composers contributed with a piece, was premiered in January 1997 at the Bimhuis, a jazz centre in Amsterdam. Some 200 new blues pieces have been composed for this project including pieces from about 50 different countries around the world. From 1998 until 2012 Marcel Worms played this program in many countries.{{cite web|url=http://www.imc-cim.org/mmap/projects.html|title=Marcel Worms, Netherlands:New blues for piano - a project in progress by Marcel Worms|publisher=International Music Council|accessdate=16 April 2012}}
Federico Mompou
Since 2002 Marcel Worms has made three CDs with works by Spanish composer Federico Mompou. In 2007 he organised a three-day Mompou festival in Amsterdam.{{cite web|url=http://www.tiaschutrups.nl/TSPRPPK/Projecten/Artikelen/2007/11/9_Mompou_Festival.html|accessdate=16 April 2012|title=Mompou Festival|publisher=Tia Schutrups}} In 2008 he went to Barcelona to recover the unpublished works of Mompou. In 2009 he was the first pianist to perform these unpublished works of Mompou.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicalconnect.com/composer/Federico-Mompou|accessdate=16 April 2012|title=Federico Mompou|publisher=Classical Connect}}
Discography
Marcel recorded 15 solo CDs, and 11 CDs as part of a chamber group.{{cite web|url=http://www.marcelworms.com/discography.html|publisher=Virtuele zaken|accessdate=16 April 2012|title=Discography}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.marcelworms.com}}
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Category:Musicians from Amsterdam