Robert Bekkers received his performing and teaching degrees at the Conservatory of Maastricht. He also studied contemporary music with Angelo Gilardino in Italy. Robert teaches guitar and performs as a soloist and an ensemble musician. He is known for his innovative arrangements for piano and guitar and his collection of Opera arias for voice and guitar. Recently Robert enrolled as a Graduate Diploma Student at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA where he has the unique opportunity to work with Eliot Fisk.

“For as long as I remember l have wanted to play the guitar.  Although I was given a sound foundation in music through theory lessons and recorder, French horn and trumpet classes, my real musical heroes were my uncles who played the guitar.

I started reading all the books about guitars I could find at our local library, learned to build my first guitar, and began to play!


I enrolled in a studio, and my passion for the guitar just took off.  I started to play more serious instruments and began to perform with my first bands.  Soon I was eager to take my playing to the next level by enrolling in a Master’s program in classical guitar.


I explored all kinds of styles—blues, singer-songwriting, jazz guitar, flamenco, pop music—and although I enjoyed and appreciated them all, I always returned to my passion, the classical guitar.


The classical guitar has taken me around the world a few times and now, through this website, to you!  Feel free to roam around on my site and listen to a clip or two, maybe buy a CD or book a concert or gig with me.  I look forward to performing for you one day!”

 

Background

Favorite guitar pieces

  1. -Chaconne

  2. -Capriccio Diabolico

  3. -Decameron negro

  4. -5 Bagatelles

  5. -Quatre Piezas Breves

  6. -Four Seasons

  7. -Music of Memory


Book me now!

Robert Bekkers

14 Floral Place

02461 Newton, MA

(832) 231 5518

robert at dutchguitar.com