Thursday January 26th 2012
Dear friends and music lovers, last year i had a lot of wild plans. Like my plan to release a song every month. As you maybe already noticed I didnt do that. This way of working simply doesnt fit me. I decided to take my time for the creative proces instead. So probably you wont hear new songs from me until i decide to really release something. And of course, you can all come and see me on stage with Kytemans Orchestra this year. All the best! pieter
Monday November 14th 2011
yes. I am. flat. on bed. For two weeks now. some kind of back/leg/nerve thing.
This is why i haven't been able to work on my latest song, which is almost finished for quite some time now. Hopefully i can start walking and doing things again from somewhere this week. So the new song will -finally!- be released as soon as possible..
Before my back gave up, i was in Utrecht, my place of birth, for about a month, recording the second album of Kyteman, with the orchestra. It will be AWESOME:)
all the best
Thursday May 19th 2011
I wrote this piece for my sister Marloes, who is also my best friend. For me, the song is about the' walk of life' that everyone takes, including Marloes. Starting with birth, youth, years of external stimuli and influences - the learning process -, the love, the hate, the hope, the drama, emotion and peace.
The melody came up while I was playing the piano two months ago. I often record these kind of ideas on my iphone, and when I listened to it later, my mind immediately added strings to it. I knew Sietse, Camilla, Rani en Jonas, who form the 'Red Limo String Quartet' from my time as a pianist with Wouter Hamel and Kyteman's hiphop orchestra. I first wrote the arrangement the old fashioned way: with pen and paper. Luckily, it was still readable so we were able to translate it to a digital version. When we were planning the recording of the string session, I told them it was a straightforward and easy arrangement, so they probably wouldn't need to rehearse much. That turned out a bit beside the truth though.. as the piece was written in B major, which - I now know - is quite a difficult key for strings. But.. they did a great job, for which I couldn't thank them enough!
Tuesday April 26th 2011
Dear music lovers,
in order to clear my brain, sometimes i write down a list of all the things i'm working on. This time i decided to put it on my website, so you all know what's going on.
* Still busy with the song for string quartet. The 'red limo string quartet' came over to our studio in Amsterdam and after a lovely dinner we recorded it in about four hours. I had told them the piece was really easy. But at that moment i learned that the key of B major isn't the easiest key there is for strings..oops sorry.anyhow, they did a fabulous job! I already recorded some piano parts today and will continue tomorrow. i hope to release it asap.
* I'm teaching quite a lot.
* I'll have to start preparing my solo piano concerts. In may there's a few gigs coming up, for example in de 'badcuyp' in Amsterdam on the fourth of may.
* Organizing www.thepiano.nl
Me and Bart are creating a website about the piano. Looking for pianoteachers? b there. Looking for pianists? b there. You want to sell yr piano online? b there. You need some piano sheet music? b there. We're going slow but in the right direction:)
* Roos Jonker. Still doing some gigs with Roos Jonker. Looking for new pianist
* To decide. Something i must take or let go. I'll tell you what it is after i made my decision.
Tuesday April 12th 2011
Lately i didn't have so much time to be creative. But all for the greater good! We are building our studio and....it's almost finished! So soon we'll be able to start again.
Coming monday we have a recording session with www.redlimostringquartet.nl. We'll be recording my last composed song for piano and strings. And who knows what else...
After that, as promised, we'll be working on a popsong:) Can't wait!