Besides working parttime as music programmer at Korzo Theater, I’m an adventurous musician playing experimental music, tango, and electronic stuff. I love performing in theater and dance productions. For 6 years I played with Sexteto Canyengue of Carel Kraayenhof. The band existed for 30 years, specialized in Pugliese repertoire, tango nuevo and new compositions by Kraayenhof and Juan Pablo Dobal.
For the last 16 years I’ve been writing grant applications for cultural organizations. Being part of the team behind Modelo62, I learned this skill by trial and error. Recently, I started working for the Dutch Performing Arts Fund in the pool of advisors. I share my experience in different roles in my work as advisor for cultural organisations.
From 2009 – 2025 I was member of Modelo62, a group dedicated to the newest experimental classical music. They are regular guests at the main festivals for new music like Gaudeamus and November Music. Modelo62 toured countries like Mexico, Norway the UK and performed the premiere of the opera ‘El Limonero Real’ by Ezequiel Menalled in the CETC of Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Always looking for the newest challenges in live music, they are presenting interesting stuff. Check them out!
With Nine Volt Duo I explore the combination of cello and live electronics. Together with composer and electronic musician Henry Vega we recorded the music for the film ‘Reclaiming Vision’ by Dijkman en Johannessen, about underwater life in the Fjord under a microscope. Also they made music for the performance voorstelling ‘Entwine’ by Lukas Timulak for the Prague Chamber Ballet.
Around the pandemic, I was one of the musicians in the music theater performance ‘Beethoven Lost in Silence’ from Esther Apituley. That piece is focusing on how it feels to lose your hearing and during the show the music is translated into visuals. He was bandleader and performer in Mammoet in Drenthe – a big location theater production from the makers of Het Pauperparadijs and 14 De Musical.
In 2017 we accompanied the Dutch singer Anouk in the Ziggo Dome together with 3 cellists. With pianist, actor and composer Roeland Drost I formed duo Troost & Drost. We performed an eclectic mix of classical, global music and new stuff in The Netherlands, Indonesia and Japan. I worked with theatre directors Tom de Ket, Arlon Luiten, Saskia Mees, Romain Bischoff, Jos Groenier, Jan-Eric Hulsman and with choreographers Samir Calixto, Lonneke van Leth, Pim Veulings, Eyas Al Mokdad and Marco Gerris from ISH.
I studied cello at the conservatories of Zwolle, Utrecht and Tilburg with Ran Varon, Maria Hol, Jeroen den Herder, Lenian Benjamins and Paul Uyterlinde. In 2006 I graduated at the Fontys Conservatorium in Tilburg.