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Rik Cornelissen

Rik Cornelissen (1984) is an innovative and versatile Dutch accordionist, composer, arranger, band leader, educator, curator, producer and researcher. With a broad education and knowledge of jazz, latin, tango and classical music, Rik is always looking for new possibilities, new sounds and new ideas. “Rik knows how to create a beautiful musical sound regardless of tempi, dynamics and range…a wonderful, exiting, intense and creative musician!” (Joan Sommers) Rik Cornelissen effortlessly knows how to manipulate the great dynamic and tonal possibilities of his instrument. ” (rakenDra Smit, Muziekwereld) He collaborated with Bert van den Brink, Ramon Valle, Juan Pablo Dobal, Oene van Geel, Izaline Calister, Ben van den Dungen, Rob van Kreeveld, Teus Nobel, Egon Kracht, Angelo Verploegen, Jan Menu, Miranda van Kralingen, Francis van Broekhuizen, Vincent Houdijk, Enrique Firpi, Maciej Domaradzki, Claudio Jacomucci en Tuur Florizoone amongs others and participated in various projects for YoOpera, Opera Minora and Opera Zuid and worked as session musician in Zwartboek (Paul Verhoeven), Van Gogh: een huis voor Vincent (Pim Hoeve) and Theatershow NU! (Mini & Maxi). Rik studied Classical Music and Argentinian Tango (BA, Codarts, Rotterdam 2006), Jazz & Pop (MA, ArtEZ University of Arts, Arnhem 2009) and Advanced Accordion Performance and Alexander Techniek (Accademia Fisarmonicista Italiana, Urbino (I) 2011) with Claudio Jacomucci

Sounds of Interstellar Space

By Rik Cornelissen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Jupiter; Saturn; Enceladus; Interstellar Space; Earth.

Rik Cornelissen: Sounds of Interstellar Space

by Peter J. Hoetjes
June 21, 2021

Less than five hundred people reside in Aartswoud, a tiny village situated in the northern half of The Netherlands, some sixty kilometers from the city of Amsterdam. Its horizon, interrupted only by scattered far-off buildings, occasional wiry trees, and the sleek, aluminum windmills replacing the wooden variety romanticized by the country's seventeenth century painters, hovers improbably ...

TRIFID: Dreamscape

by Peter J. Hoetjes
February 27, 2019

A muse may come in the form of faith, love, or a woman with little or plenty of both, but it can hardly be argued that an artist of any discipline requires one. In their debut recording, Dutch/Polish trio named TRIFID have taken to the stars for theirs. Sticking firmly with an astrological theme, they take ...

Dreamscape

By Rik Cornelissen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Trifid; Nebula; Pulsar; Secrets Of The Moon; Moonshine Song; Andromeda; Dreamscape Of The Subconciousness; Gravity; UY Scuti; Earth.