Melos Brass Summer Academy 2005  
The participants of this year's course with the teachers. PhilosophyCorfu cityReview of this years academyOutdoor concertsEvening concertsRelaxingFaculty staffConclusion MELOS BRASS Quintet, in cooperation with the Municipality of Corfu and the Department of Music of the Ionian University, organized ...

The fifth trombone/tuba curso in Muro/Spain again was a big hit.  
Most of the participants of this year's course with the teachers. This year Javier Colomer introduced the tuba to the course to make the low brass complet.
This made this years faculty staff look like:

Jorgen van Reijen - tenor trombone
Ben van Dijk - bass trombone
Javier ...

Fourth “Summer Trombone Course” held at the “Escola Regional of Music of the Comtat” in the town “ Muro of Alcoy" in the Alicante region (Spain). 
Javier Colomer, Ben van Dijk and Jörgen van Reijen. This year’s trombone summer-course, the fourth in row held in Muro de Alcoy, was a big success. Javier Colomer, organizer of this summer course ...

About a year ago my nephew *** den Haas, Dutch ambassador in Venezuela, phoned me and told me in a very enthusiastic way, about the wonderful musical youth-scene in Venezuela.
 *** is a real music-lover but I thought his enthusiasm was a bit exaggerated. He told me about the many youth orchestras and about the great work Maestro Jose Antonio ...

Ben van Dijk coaching the JONDE Sunday, August 01, 2004 From July 1st till July 9th 2004 I coached the trombone section of the "JONDE". 
The section of the Jonde + Ben van Dijk. The Spanish National Youth Orchestra "JONDE" worked in this period on Mendelssohn's 2nd Symphony "Lobgesang" and Stravinsky"s ...

Ben visits Bremen Tuesday, December 23, 2003 Begin December Ben van Dijk visited the Thein factory together with his friend and colleague Hendrik Jan Renes and Arne Visser. Arne Visser, Hendrik Jan Renes and Ben van Dijk 
 showing 3 F Tuba beauties from Bremen. The mean reason was the new F Tuba for Hendrik Jan. After all the try outs of the ...

  This year ITF, held in Helsinki, was a big success, a big success for the organization but also for a huge Dutch contribution.   
Alain Trudel and Jonas Bylund after their
windband concert on Wednesday evening. The organization had put together a very nice program in a friendly surrounding. The Helsinki Conservatory had enough ...

Together with Jörgen van Rijen, principal of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ben van Dijk gave a master class in Spain 
Participants and teachers in the very hot sun
of Alqueria Muro de Alcoy
Spain
This years dates for the summer course were the 18th
till the 22th of July, 2003. 
Van Rijen, students and van Dijk 
in Mr. Roberts by Ilja ...

Ben van Dijk visited the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester from Februari the 26th till March the 2nd.
 Since two years he is on the staff of the school as bass trombone teacher but he works with all the students from the trombone class. Ben van Dijk and the RNCM trombone-ensemble This visit Ben not only gave classes but also ...

Piet van Dijk, former solo trombonist of the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the "The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra", passed away February 6, 2003, in The Hague, The Netherlands at the age of 82. Piet van Dijk 1920-2003 Van Dijk joined the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1945 as solo trombonist Piet van ...