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Jan-Bas Bollen on November Music: 'I experience music as a purely sonic event. I can enjoy a metal band immensely, but also drum 'n bass.'

His life is a strange journey through time, a giant leap forward from one musical culture to another. His mother was a composer and singer, his father accompanied a relay of famous song singers as a pianist. And Jan-Bas Bollen (1961) took to the stage early on as a promising violin talent. In 1970, a child of nine, he played at the Oscar Back Violin Competition, and two years later studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Herman Krebbers. Then your career is pre-ordained; concert me...

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Bas van Putten

Bas van Putten (24 July 1965) is a Dutch writer and musicologist, who is also active as carjournalist. In 1989, he obtained cum laude his doctoral musicology to the University of Amsterdam. He worked as music journalist for The Telegraph, The Parool and Vrij Nederland. In 1996, Van Putten won the Pierre Bayle Prize for art criticism and in 2001 the Debutant Prize for his novel debut Thorn. With Rob Kamphues He presented the television programme PK. He is music director of De Groene Amsterdammer and columnist at Autoweek and NRC Handelsblad. He has published stories, reflections and poems in publications including Dutch Monthly and The Guide. He wrote biographies of the composers Hans Kox (2005) and Peter Schat (Part 1, 2015).View Author posts

His life is a strange journey through time, a giant leap forward from one musical culture to another. His mother was a composer and singer, his father accompanied a relay of famous song singers as a pianist. And Jan-Bas Bollen (1961) took to the stage early on as a promising violin talent. In 1970, a child of nine, he played at the Oscar Back Violin Competition, and two years later studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Herman Krebbers. Then your career is pre-ordained; concert me...

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