Biz news: Dutch pianist gets upgrade
mainThe promising young Dutchman Hannes Minnaar signed today to Emma-Jane Wyatt’s boutique agency, EJ-Arts.
Hannes has been with a mid-sized Dutch agency for nine years and needs to crack on. Emma-Jane, with only two other artists on her books, is able to give strategic attention.
Looks like L. Debargue without the moustache. Where does he figure in the international league table?
League tables?! Is playing the piano an Olympic sport? If you’re interested, Minnaar is a very gifted musician, who has already made his mark in the Netherlands. You’ll be hearing more from him.
He is fine. Not more not less. Which is true of many pianists.
Sounds about right!
Nicholas Kenyon, who runs the Barbican and for years was a music critic who I respected highly, recently did a Building a Library feature on BBC Radio 3 discussing all the available recordings of the Emperor Concerto. I think there are about 200. Minnaar’s was his first choice. On the evidence I heard in excerpts, “fine” is ungenerous. I haven’t yet heard him live.