{"id":43,"date":"2025-02-17T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:13:04","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-style-default wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sander-Grasspose-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sander C. Lekkerkerk is a Dutch pianist whose playing is shaped by a simple but demanding conviction: that good music rests on two pillars \u2014 a beautiful sound and a truthful sense of rhythm. Everything else, he believes, is ornament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He studied in the Netherlands with Jan Wijn before moving to Switzerland, where he worked under the guidance of Konstantin Scherbakov at the Z\u00fcrcher Hochschule der K\u00fcnste. He graduated cum laude and is currently completing his final master\u2019s studies. His development has also been shaped by masterclasses with H\u00e5kon Austb\u00f8, Andreas Haefliger, Jean-Bernard Pommier, and Lawrence Power, and by earlier studies with Miroslav Dimitrov, Marcel Baudet, Dorien Leidelmeijer, Martin Lekkerkerk, and St\u00e9phane de May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sander has performed throughout Europe, with appearances in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Monaco, and Belgium, and has been recognised at international competitions including the FestiVal d\u2019Anniviers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His concert programmes reflect a careful balance between what audiences want to hear and what he himself believes in \u2014 a symbiosis he considers essential to meaningful performance. His programme <em>Singing from the Piano<\/em> brings together the most beautiful singing melodies in the piano repertoire, including song transcriptions that invite audiences to move with the music. <em>Pieces on Places<\/em> takes listeners on a journey across the globe through works each connected to a specific location on earth, supported by images and spoken context that allow the music to be not just heard, but felt and imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside his performing career, Sander engages deeply with literature, philosophy, and reflective writing in the form of essays and poetry. These disciplines inform his musical thinking and reinforce his core belief about interpretation: that it is not about adding something to the music, but about removing what is unnecessary \u2014 until something essential remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sander C. Lekkerkerk is a Dutch pianist whose playing is shaped by a simple but demanding conviction: that good music rests on two pillars \u2014 a beautiful sound and a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Lees meer<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderclekkerkerk.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}