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Ronald Moelker
Recorder player Ronald Moelker has made several concert tours and 15 albums as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles.
In addition to the historical repertoire, he performs his own work and composes chamber music for recorder-ensemble, saxophone and choir.
He played at music-festivals and concert-series in Aruba, Belgium, Germany, England, Crete, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Ronald Moelker was laureate at the Musica Antiqua Competition Brugge and the International Van Wassenaer Competition: first prize in 1986 with the Super Librum program 'From Improvisation to Composition' and third prize in 1987 as Soloist with the program 'Händel & Mr. Stanesby Senior'
In addition to his activities as a soloist, Ronald Moelker is a member of the Bassano Trio, a Dutch recorder ensemble founded as a quartet in 2004 with the wel-known recorder maker Adriana Breukink, that focuses on developing and arranging new repertoire for recorder and pushing the dynamic boundaries of this ancient instrument.
After the death of quartet member Adriana Breukink in October 2022, the ensemble continues as a trio and in collaboration with various instrumentalists. The current members are Wolf Meyer, Ronald Moelker and Saskia Teunisse. The Bassano Trio participates in playing the contemporary Eagle and Dream Recorders from the former workshop of Adriana Breukink.
​Since 2012, Ronald Moelker has his own channel on YouTube for new recordings.
In 1986 his first album (on cassette tape) was released 'Van Improvisatie tot Compositie' with Ensemble Super Librum.
Several albums followed:
1988 Intabulation and improvisation in the 14th century, Ensemble Super Librum
1992 Fantasie per il flauto di voce senza basso, Telemann 12 fantasies, solo album
1992 Troubadour and Jongleur, music from Occitania (12th century), Ensemble Super Librum
1993 Renaissance in Florence, Francesco Landini and contemporaries, Ensemble Super Librum
1996 Celeste Giglio, 16th century Italian Dance Music, Lacrimae Ensemble
1998 Jacob Live, Der Fluyten Lust-hof, with Michiel Niessen, lute
2005 G.P. Telemann, Overture & Suites, Il Concerto Barocco
2005 Heaven, Van Eyck, J.S. Bach, Telemann, Brüggen, Moelker & family, solo album
2005 Flow my tears, Dowland and contemporaries with the Lacrimae Ensemble
2005 J.S. Bach, Sonatas with Riko Fukuda, harpsichord
2007 Talud, Improvisations for renaissance recorders and singing bowls, with Ratna Bauer
2010 Torres del Alma, Highlights of the Spanish consort Music, Bassano Quartet
2015 Eagles and Seven Tears, Haydn, Purcell, Dowland, Pärt, Moelker, Bassano Quartet & Daniël Brüggen
2016 Confluence, J.S. Bach, Telemann, Moelker, with Niels Bijl, saxophone
Photo by Karin van der Meul: Bassano Trio
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