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Robbert Vos (born 1986), is a Euphonium soloist, teacher and conductor from the Netherlands.
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Biography
Robbert started his musical career as a flugelhorn player but later on he switched to the euphonium. In 2004 he moved on to the professional training for euphonium with Piet Joris as his teacher at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg. He followed the courses Solo Playing, Teaching and Chamber Music. At the same time Robbert started the training Wind and Brass Band Conducting given by Hardy Mertens. In the spring of 2008, Robbert passed both studies with credit. In 2008 he went to the Academy of Music in Utrecht to continue his training of Wind and Brass Band Conducting and started studying with Danny Oosterman. In 2010 Robbert again passed his study with credit. During his studies he continued with lessons on the euphonium (taught by Bernard Beniers) and trombone (taught by Albert Zuiderduin).
Robbert is a Sterling Virtuoso Euphonium Artist and plays on a Kurun & Gilbert mouthpiece, size 3,5D. He is often asked as a guestplayer and soloist around Europe and is also regularly asked to give low brass-clinics.
He also is the solo-euphonium player of Brass Band Schoonhoven, with whom he became three times Dutch Champions in the championship section (2010/2011/2012), got some great results at the European Brass Band Championships (2011/2012/2013) and won the Eurobrass Drachten Contest three times (2011/2012/2013; including an award for Best Soloist)
Next to this he plays the euphonium in the 'Trompetterkorps der Koninklijke Marechaussee', a part-time military band and he is a member of the brass ensemble 'Neos Brass'. He took lessons and master classes with various teachers, for example David Thornton, Nick Ost, Steven Mead, David Childs, Roger Bobo and Thomas Ruedi.
In 2010 he gained the opportunity to play Janáček's Sinfonietta with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and he played Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony with the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands on tenor horn. Next to this he was a substitute with the Band of the Royal Marines and the Orchestra of the Royal Airforce and many other orchestras. From 2002 until 2011 he was a member of the National Youth Fanfare Band and in 2009 he played solo-euphonium with the European Youth Brass Band in Oostende, Belgium.
At the age of 17 Robbert started his career as a conductor. At this moment he conducts the following orchestras Brass Band Schoonhoven (A & B)
He is a very welcome guest conductor and often appears with several other bands. Since August 2008 Robbert works at the Muzelinck, Art Centre in Oss, as an instructor of low brass instruments.
Recordings
On YouTube are a lot of recordings, live and CD-recordings