In the well-known program ´The Piano Of …´, Maatwerk visits piano or grand piano owners. The presenter looks for amusing anecdotes about the instrument. Is it an heirloom? Where does the instrument come from? What emotions does the piano evoke? For this episode, Sander Zwiep and Erik traveled to Amsterdam Zuidoost for the story at […]
Complaint to Consumer and Market Authority Ten musicians have filed a complaint with the Consumer and Market Authority against Facebook. They accuse Facebook of mutilating music videos of them by muting their sound. ‘Partially muted due to copyright claim’ then appears on the screen. Facebook asks its users to respect copyrights and intellectual property of […]
On October 22, the Liszt Festival organized the piano winners festival in Tivoli Vredenburg. At the request of director Rob Hilberink, Martin Oei played the program ‘Worlds of Liszt’ twice, adapted for children. Besides two love songs and the ‘Wilde Jagd’, the Cat Concerto by Tom & Jerry could of course not be missed. Rob […]
Last Friday, April 21, 2023, a review of my new CD ‘World of Liszt’ appeared in the Volkskrant. Guido van Oorschot writes among other things: “He plays on a grand piano by Érard, the 19th-century builder who had liszt as a client. Now the listener has to get used to it: (…..) Take the short, […]
I am very much looking forward to playing Brahms’ second piano concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Nijmegen on Nov. 5 and Nov. 9, 2022, respectively. Program fall concert: Or via this website: Agenda Unlike concertos of the classical and romantic periods with three movements, Brahms decided to compose four movements: The orchestra begins, quite […]
Romance for tax inspectorsJUNE 15, 2022 Being fined thousands of euros when you haven’t paid a penny short of taxes: that happened to pianist Martin Oei. He is organizing a series of romantic concerts to which he invites tax inspectors. With the income from these, he wants to pay the tax authorities’ sky-high fine. My […]
On Sunday, September 26, 2021, a very special grand piano and its restorer Frits Janmaat will be the center of attention during a special concert in the Zuiderkerk in Enkhuizen.Janmaat, whose workshop Maison Erard has been in Enkhuizen for several years, has donated one of his Erard grand pianos to the young piano virtuoso Martin […]
He is no more: my musical grandfather Daniel Wayenberg. He was 66 years older than me and we performed together for six years, from 2012 – 2018. He stayed with us when we had gigs or had to rehearse. With great humor, he could make fun of my parents and he played computer games late […]
Third CD by Martin received a good review in the Nederlands Dagblad:…Interestingly, Oei is fascinated by the fortepiano and enjoys playing this instrument…Sparkling, heady, and then sometimes hushed piano playing, beautifully recorded spatially in the Zeeuwse Concertzaal in Middelburg.(Roel Sikkema) Before me is pianist Martin Oei’s third CD. His CD debut appeared at the age […]