Jeroen Riemsdijk is a Dutch concert pianist and piano professor at the Conservatorium Maastricht, an All-Steinway School.
He teaches BA and MA Solo Piano and leads the MA Accompaniment programme.
His repertoire ranges from the classical tradition to contemporary music and cross-disciplinary projects. He appears in solo recitals, chamber music collaborations and recording projects, with a particular interest in rediscovering lesser-known repertoire.
He works with an international class of solo and collaborative pianists. His teaching and artistic research combine traditional pianistic knowledge with contemporary insights into body mechanics, piano technique and artistic interpretation, with a practical focus on fluid technique, tonal richness and artistic freedom.
Jeroen Riemsdijk received his Konzertdiplom from the Folkwang Musikhochschule in Essen, where he studied with Boris Bloch. He had previously graduated with distinction from the ARTEZ Conservatoire in the class of Ben Smits, in the Amsterdam piano tradition associated with Cornelius Berkhout.
Recent projects include recordings of Friedrich Kalkbrenner’s 24 Preludes, Op. 88 and publications on piano technique in Piano Bulletin. His work moves continuously between performance, teaching and artistic research.
Notable performances include complete cycles presented in a single day, among them Beethoven’s complete Cello Sonatas and Brahms’s complete Piano Quartets and Piano Quintet with members of Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart.
He is currently developing the Estonian Evocations project, devoted to distinctive and lesser-known Estonian piano repertoire.
Jeroen Riemsdijk's contribution to literature includes 'The Golden Fingers Technique: The Art of Passagework for Pianists' (2007), a seminal work introducing modern weight technique. His ongoing projects, ‘From balanced Technique to Keybedding’ and ‘Musical Expressive Dramaturgy’, offer fresh perspectives on piano playing and performance.
He has commissioned and premiered works by composers such as Chiel Meijering, Marijn Simons, Roel Van Oosten, Wim Zwaag, Galina Grigorjeva, Gerard Beljon, and Arno Dieteren.
Early in his career, he was selected for the Young Musicians Foundation founded by Sir Yehudi Menuhin.
As an acclaimed chamber musician and duo player, Riemsdijk has performed across major concert halls and festivals and has shared the stage with musicians from major orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , Rotterdam Phil, Dutch Phil, Berlin Phil, and London Phil, and with eminent artists such as Gustav Rivinius, Levon Mouradian, Mirel Iancovici, Massimo Merceli, Philippe Bernold, Arno Piters, Leon Bosch, Roeland Hendrikx, Wolfgang Meijer, Marijn Simons, David Abrahamyan, Yuri Zhislin, Ian Clarke, Szymon Marciniak, and many renowned Lied and Opera singers.
He occasionally joins minimalist Jeroen van Veen in Ten Holt's Canto Ostinato.
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