8th version Concentaina 2008, success!!!Saturday, July 26, 2008 A photo collection of an other very successful CURSO in Concentaina in July 2008. Javier Colomer succeeded, for the 8th time in a row, in putting together a wonderful week for trombone and trumpet in his native town Concentaina. Both students and teachers just had a great ...

  After a short break back in Holland it was of to Japan again. This time for a tour with the International Trombone Ensemble. A group formed by former students of my school, the Rotterdam Conservatory. The tour was organized in Memory of the late "Hiro Suzuki" a former student of mine in Rotterdam who passed away in June ...

The June 2008 Asia Tour with the RPhO with its new chiefconductor Yannick We started with 2 concerts in Japan. Yokohama and Tokyo, then 3 concerts in China. 2 in Shanghai and 1 in Beijing. After that it was of to Korea for 1 concert in Seoul and then one more in Taipei, Taiwan. The RPhO lowbrass section with Alxander Verbeek, Remko de Jager, ...

The 3rd version of the Peru Low Brass Festival was a great succes!! Together with my friend Javier Colomer I made a long yourney to come in Peru. First a Amsterdam-Madrid flight, 5 hours waiting in Madrid and then the big jump of more then 11 hours to Peru. This wonderful event is an initiative of Carlos Quiroz, principal trombone of the ...

This year I visited the Messe together with my sons Mark and Erik. 
We had two great days with lots of fun and interesting moments.

The Visit to the Thein booth was very nice, testing different Flamenco guitars was fun but the HIGHLIGHT was the meeting with a living Legend at the Carrillo booth, Maestro Ramon de Algeciras. This is the ...

Johan de Meij and Ben van Dijk in Tenerife, Spain. Last January Ben van Dijk was soloist with the "Banda Municipal de Santa Cruz de Tenerife" 
conductor Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, 
guest conductor Johan de Meij. The program of this concert was a complet Johan de Meij feature.

 La Fanciulla del West [Symphonic Suite from ...

For a second time I was invited to coach the Andalucian Youth Orchestra.This orchestra is one of the leading youth orchestras in Spain and has performed in many important venues including the Edinburgh Festival and with many well known conductors such as Daniel Barenboim. The artistic leader of the orchestra is the inspiring Michael Thomas. The ...

text by Peter de Groot De cd opnamen in Mijnsheerenland van Calliope Tsoupakis songs (voor Egidius Kwartet en Rotteram Philharmonic Brass Soloists) waren een absoluut feest. Wat spelen die blaas-jongens toch geweldig, en wat een fantastische muziek!  Opnameleider en geluidsgenie Bert van Dijk maakte in minder dan geen tijd een perfecte ...

Ben's 2007-2008 basstrombone students and more.... This schoolyear I have big class with 8 bass trombone-and 1 tenor trombone students at the Rotterdam Conservatory and 1 private bass trombone student. During one of the so called bass trombone days I organized at the school we took this nice all basses-group-picture! From left to right you ...

The 12th Annual University of Kentucky Trombone Day featuring Ben van Dijk, Solo Bass Trombone of the Rotterdam PhilharmonicArticle by:
 Dale E. Warren
 Professor of Trombone
 School of Music
 University of Kentucky From November 16-19, 2005 Dale Warren, Professor of Trombone at the University of Kentucky, and the University of Kentucky ...