Andre Rieu is October 1, 1949, born in a very old city date from Roman times, called Maastricht, Netherlands. He was very agile and a child I learned violin when she was only five years.
He continued his studies at the Conservatory of Maastricht and Liege's Conservatoire Royal. He was fascinated by orchestras. For three years in the 70 years he studied with luminaries such as Andre Gertler at the Brussels Academy of Music. Although he won the"Premier Prix".
He later founded the 'Maastricht Salon Orchestra. "The Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Rieu was so young that they appear as a violin soloist impressed.
In 1987 one of his dreams and he founded the "Johann Strauss Orchestra" with only twelve members. How you've grown! The orchestra is now the first-class talents between forty and fifty musicians. Some have their lavish shows and is criticized. However, the fact remainswhat he has done an enormous amount of good, not only popular waltzes, as well as classical music in general. He is also a wonderful and fun and brings joy and happiness, where he and his orchestra. Andre received his deserved title of "The King of Waltz '. Andre is a sincere man with great charisma, he enjoys playing his violin, but also enjoys easy jokes with the audience, who has done many times, you feel part of his orchestraFamily.
He owns two Stradivarius violins and plays center. One of 1667. The rest of the 'year 1732.
Johann Strauss Orchestra with Andre at the helm, have acclaimed performance in the world, including Europe, America, and as far away as Australia. He speaks at least seven languages, including Dutch, German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. His recordings and DVDs have been greeted with enthusiasm by his family of believers around the worldFans.
Johann Strauss Orchestra has won many, many. Engravings in gold and platinum and at least two World Music Awards. In the Netherlands eight Platinum Awards were also received that list growing. Now he has a lot to do their own recording studios in Maastricht, where he produced, not only for DVD and CD of his successes, but record for movie soundtracks, musical theater and other forms of music, including classical, folk and popular. Andre was a brother, Jean Phillipe, forseveral years before Jean opened his own and opened his own production company.
Pierre, the youngest of two sons, Andrew, works with him as his production manager, a full-time.
His wife, Marjorie has composed many pieces and these were performed by the orchestra. A particularly beautiful piece, "Please do not go," was sung by Suzan Erens, Carmen Monarcha and Carla Maffioletti to critical acclaim.
In 2007, Andre also recorded a debut. He touredAustralia is alone, without his orchestra. It 'was greeted with enthusiasm and delighted the audience with his personal interpretation of their national anthem of Australia's unofficial "Waltzing Matilda". However, both Andre and the entire orchestra to return to the "Land Down Under" at the end of 2008, in the month of November and December, for a full turn. To the delight of his legion of admirers are.
PBS, have transferred many public performances broadcast by Andre and his JohannStrauss Orchestra, both in Britain and North America. It was a particularly wonderful performance from Piazza della Repubblica, Cortona. A performance of Puccini's tender and moving "O mio babbino caro ', sung by a young and beautiful soprano Carmen Monarcha, Brazil. The people were moved to tears, both in the audience and saw at home. I know because I was a them. Carmen and two other sopranos, Carla and Suzan Maffioletti Arens, delighted the audiencewith several other vocal concert. I recommend this DVD will be placed on your 'must have' list. I guarantee you will never be disappointed with him.
There is much more of this story being told and I am writing another article on this extraordinary artist, his orchestra and his sopranos. In the meantime, I ask you, my Squidoo lens and website, the most enthusiastic André Rieu and also includes some videos of his performances very free, and enjoy the singers.Details of the author's resource box.
