As a harpsichordist, Jan-Piet has performed Baroque music as well as twentieth-century composers with internationally renowned soloists and orchestras.

While still a student at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (where his harpsichord teacher was Kees Rosenhart), JP developed a busy practice playing chamber music with recorder players and flautists in the school.  Within a year, he was awarded a scholarship to play Manuel de Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto at the international chamber music summer course in Weikersheim, Germany.  Later, he frequently accompanied in the classes of Bart Kuijken (Baroque flute) and Ku Ebbinge (Baroque oboe) at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.  He holds a degree in harpsichord from the Utrecht Schools of the Arts.

JP has played harpsichord in numerous early music ensembles in Europe.  He has performed with recorder players Dan Laurin and Carin van Heerden, Baroque flute players Linde Brunmayr and Kate Clarke, Baroque oboists Bart Schneemann and Geoffrey Burgess, and singer Richard Wistreich.  

He also performed with the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, where he played the harpsichord solo in the world premiere of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso IV/Symphony No. 5.  He has also played with the Nederlands Ballet Orkest, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, and with the Noordhollands Philharmonisch Orkest.  From 1994 to 1997, he was staff accompanist at the Institute for Early Music at the University of Music Trossingen, Germany.

JP has played Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto many times and also performed the composer's arrangement for harpsichord of the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto.  In 1999, he performed Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations in the Netherlands and Germany.

To hear and see JP's recent performances at Trinity Church Wall Street of Bach's famous Prelude in C Major (without Ave Maria) or the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto  (with The Bach Players) click here and choose the appropriate buttons on the menu.