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Artist
Matteo Myderwyk
12+ albums
pianoinstrumentaldutchClassicalcontemporary classical
about
Matteo Mijderwijk (1990) is a Dutch 'neo-classical' pianist based in Amsterdam. The spelling of his Dutch family name is usually 'internationalized' to Myderwyk. His début album, To Move, came out in 2017. Prodigious talent Matteo Myderwyk is part of the new generation of pianists ripping up the rule book and bringing the art of the piano to new audiences in innovative ways. While recent years have seen the likes of Nils Frahm, Chilly Gonzales and Myderwyk's countryman Joep Beving reimagine what a pianist can be, Myderwyk follows in their footsteps with a stripped-back approach and an ambition of breaking out of staid ‘classical’ labels and reaching as wide an audience as possible. What sets him apart is that all his music is completely improvised. He might have a rough idea or sketch in his head at most, but aside from that everything is created completely on the fly. He calls what he does ‘minimal music’, referencing his succinct approach to eliciting the maximum response from the minimum of arrangement or showboating. His improvisational approach encompasses both his studio recording—as boldly displayed on his debut LP To Move—and his mesmerising live performances, where he draws on memory, mood and atmosphere to conjure up his magic. He had a relatively late introduction to music. He grew up in the countryside in the south of Holland, and chanced upon a cheap keyboard in a local store. He soon became infatuated with playing it and practising for hours and days at a tim
