rené gulikers, conductor

  After having prepared myself during many months to be able to conduct the famous “Le sacre du Printemps” by Stravinsky by heart, I left for Volgograd on March 27. The other piece on the program was the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, to be played by my son Maxime, who would travel to Volgograd some days later. My flight schedule: Amsterdam… Read more →

After my very successful Russian tour in May/June 2016, I conducted a lot of premieres and other new music in Germany. Last June there were 5 world premieres of compositions by  four young composers, varying from chamber orchestra to quintet, played in four different concerts. Their names: Areum Lee, Jinwook Jung, Seungwon Yang, Mehran Sherkat Naderi.     During summer, I conducted… Read more →

Preparation My Russian tour was organised by Elena Kostyuchenko from Peter the Great Music Academy (Saint Petersburg) in collaboration with Valeria Gorokhovskaya from Holland-Russia (The Hague). They arranged everything concerning flights, hotels, programs and finances. I was very happy about that, because I could concentrate on studying my scores (as I posted on Facebook: more than 4 kilos!). A few days… Read more →

Since a few days, Carla Leurs – who would play with me the violin concerto by Stravinsky in Samara – fell ill. After many mails, telephone calls and visits to the Russian Consulate in The Hague, we managed to replace her by my son Maxime. He will play the violin concerto by Bruch and – as Carla would have done… Read more →

I hope you like my new website. The site is still in progress. Some pages are not finished or are under construction. Please let me know what you like or don’t like and  if you have suggestions for improvement of my site, please give a reaction in the postbox. René Gulikers Read more →