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!”