Background
Bruins" earliest piano lessons were with his mother.
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Theo Bruins
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Starting in 1948 he studied with Yves National and from 1951 studied composition with Kees van Baaren.
Career
His professional piano studies commenced in 1946 with Jaap Spaanderman at the Conservatoire of the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum Foundation (merged into the Amsterdam Conservatoire). In the meanwhile he had started a successful career as a performing concert pianist, which took him to North America and South America, and throughout Europe, as well as to Indonesia. Amongst others he played as a soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
He taught at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.
Bruins" compositions are few in number, but nevertheless well noted. His appears also on a collection by New Mexico Music.
Emanuel Overbeeke: Moeizame componeerarbeid (Dutch: Difficult Composition Labor). Mens en Melodie, February 1997.
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Nationality
Netherlands