Edith Leerkes
Edith Leerkes (born June 11, 1959 in Enschede ) is a Dutch musician.
Life
She started playing guitar at the age of eleven and later studied classical guitar in the Netherlands and Spain. Since 1981 she played in various ensembles and from 1987 to 1998 she was a member of the Amsterdam Guitar Trio. She has performed with the trio at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles and the Casals Hall in Tokyo.
Her CD recordings contain music by Johann Sebastian Bach , Johann Pachelbel , Domenico Scarlatti , Isaac Albéniz , Manuel de Falla , Georges Bizet and Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew .
In 1992 the trio made a guest appearance at a gala concert by Herman van Veen . Leerkes left the trio in 1998 to work with van Veen from now on. Together they wrote and produced the CD Du bist die Ruh and a television program of the same name about Franz Schubert . Other recordings include the children's musical Colombine and the voice thief , the “Audiobiography” van Veen's Nu en dan and the gypsy jazz CD Your kisses are sweeter , recorded with the Rosenberg Trio. In 1999 she recorded the CD A Certain Tenderness together with guitarist Olga Franssen , on which van Veens songs, arranged for two guitars, can be heard.
Edith Leerkes plays guitar in the song Deine Zettel on Reinhard Mey's album ' Bottle Post' from 1998 and she played concert guitar in the song Thank you, dear good fairy on Mey's album Bunter Hund from 2007 .
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| SURNAME | Leerkes, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Enschede |