18 Ijswals
18 Ijswals
18 Ijswals
- 1957 - Born in Leiderdorp (South-Holland The Netherlands) - Grew up in Eindhoven. (The Netherlands) - Started to play guitar at 12 years old. - Studied Classical Guitar with the Uruguayan guitarist Baltazar Benitez, at the Brabant Academy of Music in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Graduated in 1985. - 1982 - 2007 - Taught classical guitar. - 1990 - Started to study composition with the Dutch composer Jan van Dijk in Tilburg. - 2000 - Started to publish her compositions. - 2002 - Got a personal website with descriptions of her music. (www.margrietverbeek.nl) - 2005 - Started her large collection of popular arrangements for two recorders and classical guitar. - 2005 - Won the first prize in the composition competition: 'The 8th International Guitar Festival of Corfu', with Fleur for solo guitar. (Published by the American Music Publisher Clear Note) - 2005 - Got commissioned by the city of Midden-Delfland to compose two pieces for brass ensemble which got their first performance in presence of the Dutch Queen Beatrix in the village t Woudt. - 2008 - Published a cd album around the subject nature, which contains many of her compositions for guitar, piano or both, in cooporation with the piano player Eddy van der Maarel. - 2008 - Published her first novel (Dutch).