On October 30th, trumpet player Marco Blaauw from ensemble Musikfabrik, Europe's leading
contemporary music ensemble, will perform at Kanuti Gild. Marianna Liik's new work will have
its world premiere. In addition, the concert will feature works by Adrian Mocanu, Elena Rykova
and George Lewis.

Born in 1965, Marco Blaauw studied at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, later
continuing his studies with Pierre Thibaud and Markus Stockhausen.
Important focus for Marco Blaauw has always been to further develop the trumpet, its playing
technique, and to initiate new repertoire. Blaauw works in close collaboration with composers of
our time. Many works have been written especially for Blaauw, including compositions by Peter
Eötvös, Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Rihm, Rebecca Saunders, Martijn Padding, Isabel
Mundry, Richard Ayers, Gijsbrecht Roye, and John Zorn. Blaauw worked intensely with
Karlheinz Stockhausen. Flying over the orchestra in a gimbaled cage, he played the leading role
in Stockhausen’s MICHAELs REISE. He presented the premier of HARMONIES for Trumpet for
the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and has premiered many solo roles from the opera
cycle LICHT. In 2015 he started working with La Monte Young on The Second Dream of the
High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer. Since then he produced many concerts to share La
Monte Young’s groundbreaking work for audiences in Europe.

Marco Blaauw’s work is widely documented through radio, television and CD recordings. As a
composer, Blaauw was awarded the 2016 Karl Sczuka Prize for his first radio play, deathangel.
Blaauw has been intensely active as a teacher at international master classes in Darmstadt and
Lucerne and as a faculty member at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.