About this user
Dutch pianist Frederic Meinders received his first piano lessons at the age of five from his
parents.He later studied with Jan de Man at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague where he was awarded with the Prix dExcellence.
In 1968, after winning the National Competitian for young musicians in the Netherlands,
Meinders, with encouragement from Martha Argerich, completed his studies with Nikita Magaloff in Geneva.In 1972 he won the first prize at the International Scriabin Competion in Oslo, and since
then he has performed regularly in Europe, North and South America and the Far East.
Frederic Meinders has played with various orchestras, including the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and Munich Chamber Orchestra under conductors such as Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, David Zinmann and others.
Also active in chamber music, he has performed with Arleen Auger, Philipp Hirschhorn,
Sviatoslaw Zagursky, Nathaniel Rosen, Rainer Kussmaul, Janos Starker, Nelson Freire and other prominent artists.
In addition to composing original works, Meinders has also made piano transcriptions of
chamber music works, orchestral suites and songs, some of which have been recorded for EMI, CBS and Danacord. Other recordings were made for Koch-Schwann and Globe.
The total output of Meinders work as composer/transcriber is proximately 600 works,
among them about 100 works for the left hand.
Country
Brazil
