Conductor Johan de Meij Announces US dates for 2019

Fri, Feb 1 - Tue, Jun 25  2019

_C_onductor Johan de Meij has announced his tour list for the first half of 2019. The Dutch conductor and composer will lead concerts in various places throughout the US, conducting his “Lord of the Rings” symphony and various other works.

Calendar

February 1  – 4:30pm
Iowa State University Wind Ensemble
Triumphal March
Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall at Iowa State University – Ames, IA

February 2 – 3:00pm
Iowa State University Gold Band
Spring + Fifty Shades of E
C.Y. Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University – Ames, IA

March 2 – 8:00pm
Duke University Wind Symphony
FELLINI (for alto sax, wind orchestra & circus band) & Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings
Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University – Durham, NC

March 14 – 7:00pm

Cine-Symphony Planet Earth screening @ The Netherland Club of New York

This film project is an ethereal blending of cinema and orchestral music

Warwick Hotel NY Davies (1st floor) – New York City

March 17 – 4:00pm
New Jersey Wind Symphony
Celtic Classics – Riverdance (Highlights from)
Sacred Heart Cathedral – Newark, NJ

March 19, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Suny Ulster Wind Ensemble 
Songs from the Catskills + Pennsylvania Faux Songs
Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge, New York

April 16 – 8:00pm
The Allentown Band playing Pennsylvania Faux Songs
Oberwalliser Blasorchester playing Downtown Divertimento
Carnegie Hall – New York, NY

May 4 – 5:00pm
Marist College Wind Orchestra
Songs from the Catskills & Pennsylvania Faux Songs
Culinary Institute of America (CIA)  Wallgreen Hall – Poughkeepsie, NY

June 25 – 7:30pm
American Band College Wind Orchestra
Pennsylvania Faux Songs + African Harmony (Songs from Mama Africa)
Craterian Theater – Medford, OR

About Johan de Meij

Dutch composer and conductor Johan de Meij (Voorburg, 1953) received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, where he studied trombone and conducting. His award-winning oeuvre of original compositions, symphonic transcriptions and film score arrangements has garnered him international acclaim and have become permanent fixtures in the repertoire of renowned ensembles throughout the world. His Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings was awarded the prestigious Sudler Composition Prize and has been recorded by myriad ensembles including The London Symphony Orchestra, The North Netherlands Orchestra, The Nagoya Philharmonic and The Amsterdam Wind Orchestra. His Symphony No. 2 The Big Apple, Symphony No. 3 Planet Earth, Symphony No. 4 Sinfonie der Lieder as well as his solo concertos, T-Bone Concerto (trombone), UFO Concerto (euphonium) and Casanova (cello) have been enthusiastically received at many of the world’s finest venues.

Before devoting his time exclusively to composing and conducting, Johan de Meij enjoyed a successful professional career as a trombone and euphonium player, performing with major orchestras and ensembles in The Netherlands. He is in high demand as a guest conductor and lecturer, frequently invited to speak about and perform his own works. In 2010, he was appointed regular guest conductor of the Simón Bolívar Youth Wind Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela – part of the celebrated Venezuelan educational system El Sistema. He currently maintains posts with both the New York Wind Symphony and the Kyushu Wind Orchestra in Fukuoka, Japan as their principal guest conductor. Johan is founder and CEO of his own publishing company Amstel Music, established in 1989.

When not traveling, Johan divides his time between his Hudson Valley home and Manhattan apartment with his wife and muse Dyan, cats Lenny & Tosca and dog Lucy.