Award-winning Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis has created a brand new style that embraces classical, gypsy jazz and folk. Hailed as a ‘current-day improvising Paganini’, his inclusive approach to music has united audiences and is influencing a new generation of string players. After his master’s degree in classical violin at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, Tim studied with the European Sinti gypsies. He recorded and toured with gypsy guitar legends Fapy Lafertin, The Rosenberg Trio and Angelo Debarre. Tim has also performed for the Dutch King at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, for Celtic Connections Glasgow, at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine and has toured America, South Africa and Russia extensively. Tim has shared the stage with Les Paul, Richard Galliano, Frankie Gavin and Martin Hayes, as well as the Netherlands and Tallinn Chamber Orchestras, The Hague and Cape Town Philharmonic and Sinfonietta Amsterdam. Author of the best-selling book “Gypsy Jazz Violin,” Tim is an in-demand educator and teaches improvisation at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and his own summer school, Grappelli-Django Camp.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Saturday, September 1
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Topics covered: TBA
