VAN HALDEREN Dimitri

Dimitri van Halderen is a classical guitarist, composer and teacher known for his musical versatility. He enjoys playing the solo repertoire from the Renaissance to contemporary music, at times working together with composers. Aside from that he has played with violoncello, string quartet, singers and even sitar.

He started to play the guitar at the age of 10, receiving classical tuition but sneaking away to form a rock band with his cousins at the age of twelve. He never gave up on the classical guitar though, and meeting the Dutch classical guitarist Jan Wolf in 1991 made him decide definitively to become a professional classical guitarist. Jan Wolf became his teacher and mentor, and his philosophical approach to music left a profound influence.

Dimitri holds a degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, where he studied with both Enno Voorhorst and Zoran Dukić, and received coaching in interpretation from composer Cornelis de Bondt and oboist Bart Schneemann. He also holds a master in musicology, specializing in symmetry as a compositional process in the music of Bartók and Webern.

His compositions for Ukulele have been played by artists like Samantha Muir and Donald Bousted, and several of his pieces are scheduled for recording projects.