Johannes Westendorp
Phone: 06 42750204


Johannes Westendorp studied classical guitar with Hein Sanderink at the Fontys Conservatory of Tilburg (Netherlands). He continued his studies for two years at the Conservatory of Gent (Belgium) with Tom Pauwels for contemporary guitar music and courses composition and free improvisation with Dr. Godfried-Willem Raes. He made Tijdwerk (2006, Muzieklab Brabant) a performance for transient and self destructing instruments. And …/Obstructie (2008, Faktor B), a counterreactive sound installation. He wrote the libretto for the opera Halfgeleiders (Productiehuis Brabant). Johannes is participating in the organisation of DE LINK concertserie in Tilburg. As a guitarist he performs regular with the electric guitar quartet Zwerm. In his solo guitar programm for both electric and acoustic guitars he is focusing on American minimalism vs (European) new complexity. Since 2008 he doing a master study artistic research at the University of Amstedam. Together with Pieter Verhees he is currently working on 'Inside Mount Lu - a sonorous labyrinth' (2010, Muzieklab Brabant).