Astrid Reijnders
cellist
BIO
Astrid Reijnders (1998) started playing the cello when she was twelve years old, having played the recorder for five years. At fifteen she was admitted to the ‘School for Young Talent’ at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 2021 she obtained her bachelor’s degree at the conservatory in Rotterdam (Codarts) with Jeroen den Herder and Joachim Eijlander, after which she took lessons with the French cellist Sébastien Hurtaud for a year. She finished her masters cum laude with Jeroen Reuling at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel in 2025.
Astrid had masterclasses with among others Eduardo Gonzalez Lopez, Leonid Gorokhov, Michal Kaňka, Alexandre Lacour, Gavriel Lipkind, Aldo Mata, Angel Luis Quintana, Harro Ruijsenaars, Herre-Jan Stegenga and Ran Varon.
Astrid immensely enjoys playing with others. She has been a member of youth orchestras from an early age, among which the Atheneum Kamerorkest conducted by Arjan Tien. Besides, she has played in many chamber music ensembles over the years. She forms a duo with guitarist Samuel Rosado Rived. She is also a member of the Régence Quartet, consisting of musicians who met during their master studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.
Besides her classical education Astrid is interested in a wide variety of music styles. She was a member of the NJJO (National Youth Jazz Orchestra) for two years. During her master studies she immersed herself in contemporary music. She played in performances of pieces from amongst others Ligeti and Boulez and worked with several composers on the first performances of their compositions. In recent years she has also become increasingly involved with theater. Her first experience with that world was with the musical Little Women, after which Willem en Frieda and Brel – de musical followed.
Astrid plays a cello made by Guust François on loan from the collection of The Netherlands Musical Instrument Foundation.
DUO
Astrid Reijnders and Samuel Rosado Rived met in 2024 through the chamber music program of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, where they were both studying for their masters degree at the time. Since then they have been playing together as a duo.
Cello and guitar give a beautiful combination of timbres. It is however not (yet) a very regular instrumentation. A part of the repertoire consists therefore of arrangements, for example of songs for voice and accompaniment.
They are also both interested in new compositions for this combination of instruments. They worked with Dušan Bogdanović when rehearsing his composition ‘Rainforest Canticles’, which was written in 2015.
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