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Peter Leerdam is a busy orchestral player and teacher in the Netherlands. He studied double bass with Peter Stotijn at the Conservatory of Utrecht, and was awarded his teaching certificate in 1982 - one year later he completed his studies as a performing musician cum laude.
For three years (1982-85) he toured the Netherlands with the band Mamadeus, making a number of CD and television recordings and from 1986 to the present he has been a member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Peter is also active as a chamber musician, and in 1991 formed an ensemble En Suite to perform both well-known and rare chamber music which includes double bass.
Peter Leerdam has an eclectic and wide-ranging taste in music, and alongside his classical playing he is equally at home performing Jazz of Gipsy Music with the groups Bredband and Youchka Gipsy Trio.
He teaches double bass at the Conservatoire of Rotterdam and is keen to promote the double bass throughout the Netherlands, and to make international contacts with other performers and teachers. For the past five years he has organised an annual National Double Bass Day in the Netherlands, and the most recent attracted 55 bassists!
The recently formed duo BASSO BASSO! is an ensemble for two double basses where Peter has teamed up with well known bass player David Heyes.
Peter plays a wonderful bass manufactured by John Frederick Lott in 1820 and a small chamber bass made by George Fredrick Lott in 1840.
Peter Leerdam will be one of the guest tutors at the 7th BIBF Double Bass Workshop (8 - 12 April 2001 at Downe House School, Newbury).
