As with so many organists, the piano was Jan-Piet’s first musical love.  He continues to perform as a pianist in addition to his organ and harpsichord playing.

 

 

JP has performed as a soloist in concertos by Haydn, Mozart, and Lancen (the flashy Parade Concerto for piano and band).  His main interest in piano playing, however, has been in accompanying singers and playing chamber music.  He has collaborated with numerous singers as well as instrumentalists, and has organized and performed a concert featuring the chamber music of Charles Tournemire. 

 

 

Also an experienced choral accompanist, JP can be heard on a live recording of Randall Thompson's Frostiana with the Amsterdam chamber choir Vocoza, directed by Ira Spaulding on their CD Circle that! 

 

 

In addition to the modern piano, JP has also performed on the fortepiano, the predecessor of the modern grand that makes the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and even Schubert and Schumann sound more the way it did two hundred years ago.  A recording of a recent concert at Queens College's LeFrak Hall with the group Singspiel (with soprano Martha Sullivan and clarinetist Ed Matthew) can be heard here (brows to September 27 and click on whatever piece you would like to hear first).

 

 

JP's main piano teachers were Boukje Land (at the Conservatory of Amsterdam) and Thom Bollen (at the Utrecht School of the Arts), both very fine pianists with a strong interest in the art of accompanying.  He received coaching on the early piano from Kees Rosenhart, Glen Wilson, and Patrick Cohen.