Simone De Haan
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Simone De Haan is an Australian trombonist.{{cite web|url=https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/simone-de-haan-a-kaleidoscope-of-new-music-for-trombone-tickets-35954171896|title=Simone De Haan – A Kaleidoscope of New Music for Trombone|website=Eventbrite}}
De Haan was born in Perth, Australia in 1953. He was a co-founder of Flederman, one of Australia's leading Australian contemporary music ensembles. About Flederman, Warren Burt has written "Also of note in this period are the early activities of Flederman, a group founded by Carl Vine and trombonist, composer and improviser Simone de Haan. The early Flederman events always had a very careful mix of avant-garde and experimental performance but they evolved into a mainstream avant-garde group until their disbanding in the late '80s."{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/some-musical-and-sociological-aspects-of-australian-experimental-music|title=Some Musical and Sociological Aspects of Australian Experimental Music : Feature Article : Australian Music Centre|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au}}
Music ensemble
De Haan has also been active as a member of the Australia Contemporary Music Ensemble (directed by Keith Humble) and Pipeline (with Daryl Pratt), and Ii 1986 was the subject of an interview done for the NLA Oral History Program, by Australian musicologist James Murdoch.{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/979401|title=Simone De Haan interviewed by James Murdoch, 1986 [sound recording]|first1=Simone|last1=De Haan|first2=James|last2=Murdoch|date=21 July 1986|publisher=|via=National Library of Australia}}
Commissioned works
De Haan has commissioned over 150 works by Australian composers, including Love song by Carl Vine,{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/workversion/vine-carl-love-song/2715|title=Love song : for trombone and tape by Carl Vine : Work : Australian Music Centre|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au}} which Vine said was "Written after a long period in which both Simone and I had been involved in the performance of a great deal of intellectually, technically and physically demanding music, it is concerned more with the purely lyrical aspects of musical performance. While demanding considerable stamina on the part of a live trombonist, the long sustained notes throughout the work function as a "warm-up" for the player's embouchure, culminating in some of the highest notes available to a tenor trombone."{{cite web|url=http://www.ericklay.com/Full-Circle-Background.html|title=Eric Klay – Full Circle Background|website=Eric Klay}} Other commissions include Occasional poetry by Carl Vine,{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/workversion/vine-carl-occasional-poetry/2722|title=Occasional poetry : for trombone and piano by Carl Vine : Work : Australian Music Centre|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au}} Sonata for two trombones by Lawrence Whiffin,{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/work/whiffin-lawrence-sonata-for-two-trombones|title=Sonata for two trombones : trombone duet by Lawrence Whiffin : Work : Australian Music Centre|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au}} and Red letter days by Lawrence Whiffin.{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/de-haan-simone|title=Simone De Haan : Australian Music Centre|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au}}
Orchestra
De Haan has held principal trombone positions with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra (later the Opera Australia Orchestra). Whilst resident in Europe in 1986, he was active in the Dutch improvisation scene and a regular member of the Maarten Altena Ensemble and the contemporary chamber group Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt. De Haan has also been the foundation artistic director of several music festivals, including the Queensland Music Festival, International New Music Tasmania Festival, and Jammin...making music together, a major collaborative event on South Bank in Brisbane.
Academic positions
He has held academic positions including Professor and Director of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music UTAS, the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University{{cite web|url=https://www.griffith.edu.au/library/library-resources/professorial-lectures/lectures-alphabetically|title=Lectures alphabetically|website=www.griffith.edu.au}} and was Director of the ANU School of Music in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://music.anu.edu.au/content/history-school-music|title=History of the School of Music – School of Music – ANU|website=music.anu.edu.au}}
Albums
De Haan's playing features in two tracks on the 1995 album Wind Song by British trombonist Eric Klay.,{{cite web|url=http://www.move.com.au/disc/eric-klay-windsong|title=WindSong|website=move.com.au}} and in October 2016 De Haan performed alongside his long-time friend, percussionist and composer Phil Treloar in celebration of Treloar's 70th birthday.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/treloar-at-70-review-no-windowdressing-needed-on-high-art-20161013-gs238v.html|title=Treloar at 70 review: Most music is clothed and shoulder-padded. Here it was stripped naked...|first=John|last=Shand|date=14 October 2016|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}