Press
| Reviews
“Pour La Flûte de Pan, comme le suggère le titre, il nous fallait… un joueur de flûte de pan, et il ne fut pas aisé d’en trouver un de formation classique. Nous sommes très heureux d’avoir rencontré Matthijs Koene.” – Diapason magazine, 10 September 2020
“Matthijs Koene, one of the most prominent and groundbreaking panflutists of our time, also likes to embark on the musical adventure. Matthijs Koene will shine in Mozart’s First Flute Concerto.” – De Doelen, 20 September 2019
“Matthijs Koene does things with his instrument which sound quite impossible at times.” – Soundboard Magazine, 2010
– Klassieke Zaken, 2010
“Verso – Matthijs Koene, panpipes, and Stefan Gerritsen, guitar – is a highly-skilled, very professional, and charismatic duo.”
The panpipes soloist aims to establish the panpipes as a classical instrument in its own right. He has achieved this with expressive virtuosity, and is technically perfect.” – Berner Zeitung, 2009
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| Interviews
‘Pan flute is restored by Matthijs Koene’, Eva Jinek, RTL Nederland (2022) [watch] ‘The evolution of a Pan Flute’, The Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation (2020) [watch] ‘Panfluiter des Vaderlands Matthijs Koene aan het woord!’, Ars Musica (2019) [read] ‘The Pan Flute player Matthijs has a mission‘, Rudolf Hunnik, DGE (2019) [read] ‘Interview with Margaretha Coornstra’, Luister (2018) ‘Matthijs Koene about Panpipes’, Floris Kortie, NPO 2 (2018) [watch]
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| Awards
Diapason d’Or award (2020), with soprano Sophie Karthäuser and ensemble Oxalys IBLA Grand Prize Top Winner Award and Piazzolla Award in Italy (2006), with Verso Finalist in The Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York (2005 and 2006), with Verso Vriendenkrans, Concertgebouw Prize, AVRO Radio Prize (2003) Prize for contemporary music at the Comradio Competition in Barcelona (2003), with Verso |