Arno Bornkamp: Ravel Pièce en forme de Habanera

Arno Bornkamp performs Ravel Pièce en forme de Habanera during his concert at Salerno Casino Sociale Red Hall on June 29 2010 with pianist Giulio De Luca. Event organized by Salerno Conservatoire. Dutch saxophonist Arno Bornkamp is the archetype of the modern virtuoso, feeling equally at home in traditional and contemporary repertoire. Hailed as a lyrical musician with a great sense of performance, Bornkamp studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Ed Bogaard and graduated in 1986 with the highest distinction. He has won many awards, the ’Silver Laurel of the Concertgebouw’ and the ’Netherlands Music Prize’ among the most noteworthy. The latter enabled him to go abroad, studying in France with Daniel Deffayet and Jean-Marie Londeix, in Japan with Ryo Noda as well as working with composers as Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Since his 1982 solo debut in Rome, performing the ’Concertino da Camera’ by Jacques Ibert, he has played more t