Hans Eijsackers was born in The Hague. When he was 13 years old he won the first Rotterdam Piano-Driedaagse and Princess Christina Competition. He was winner of the European Piano Competition in 1991 in Luxembourg, playing Rachmaninow’s Concerto nr.2 with the R.T.L. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jacques Mercier. He also won the Special Prize for the best song accompaniment.

Among his professors were: Koos Bons, Gerard van Blerk, Jan Wijn and György Sebök. In 1992 he graduated at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam. In 1994 he was invited to study at the Mozart Academy in Krakow. As a result he did recitals in Poland, Budapest, Cornwall, Asia and New York.

 

Next to his work as a professor at the conservatories of Tilburg and The Hague he performs as soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. He did concert tours in Italy, Russia and the Far East (Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan) etc. In 1993, as well as 1994 he received the Medal of the Friends of the Concertgebouw with baritone Geert Smits and flautist Liesbeth Niesten.

 

With mezzo-soprano Xenia Meijer and with clarinettist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer he toured as “Rising Stars” from the Concertgebouw, playing in important halls like Wigmore Hall, London, the Musikverein, Vienna and Carnegie Hall, New York.

 

Hans regularly appears in European Festivals, and for 4 years he was musical director of the open-air Uitgast Festival in Lelystad. In 2010 he performed concerto’s by Brahms and Martinu with the Robert Schumann Philharmonie in Chemnitz and the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. He was invited to give concerts, masterclasses and lectures in Surabaya, Indonesia. In 2012 he will be soloist in Schostakovitsch Concerto nr.1 with Holland Symfonia for their New Years concertseries.

 

Some of his compositions have been performed regularly the last decade: El Beso, for voice, saxophone and piano, and “Bekentenis”, for narrator and ensemble.