Jörgen van Rijen & Ben van Dijk + ITE play 4th movement of Ewazen’s “a duet for our time“.

n July 2008 the International trombone Ensemble, a group formed by ex students of my school, the Rotterdam Conservatory, made a tour to Japan. Most of these players, play now in major orchestras in Europe. In this clip you will hear: Bart Claessens, Quirijn van den Bijlaard, Martin Schippers, Klaas van Slageren, Alejandro Carralero Plaza, Tomer Maschkowski. The ensembles website is at: This tour was organized in Memory of the late “Hiro Suzuki“ a former student of mine in Rotterdam who passed away in June 2007. Here you hear Jörgen van Rijen and Ben van Dijk perform the last movement of Eric Ewazen’s “a duet for our time“ For an article and many pictures of this impressive event, please visit: