Peter Cramer and Maarten Boasson

Peter Cramer finished his organ studies in 1983, and obtained his soloist diploma piano with the highest honors two years later at the Conservatory in Groningen, the Netherlands. He received a stipendium from the Dutch Government that enabled him to pursue his piano studies with prof. Andrzej Stefanski at the conservatory of Warsaw, Poland. He is much in demand as a piano teacher and performs regularly both in chamber music concerts, and as a soloist. He performed several of the major piano concertos, and a good part of the chamber music literature.

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Maarten Boasson studied cello with Sylvain Wannenmacher (in France) and Anner Bijlsma (Amsterdam). He participated in a masterclass with Wolfgang Laufer, and further studied with Gary Hoffman and Joel Marosi. He taught cello at a regional music college and during 10 years was cellist of a small baroque group performing widely in the Netherlands and abroad. He later joined a chamber orchestra in which he played numerous solo parts. Maarten performed several solo concertos and is a very active chamber music player.

As a scientist, Maarten has been active for almost 40 years in the field of complex, distributed and fault-tolerant systems. He worked in industry for 30 years and in that period developed a novel and highly succesful system's software architecture for this class of systems.
He was appointed professor of computer science at the Univerity of Amsterdam in 1996 from which position he recently retired.

He has been on the editorial board of a number of journals and helped organize scientific conferences as member, or chair, of inumerable program committees.

Maarten co-founded the European Institue Paralimes, aiming at high level fundamental inter-disciplinary research (www.paralimes.org). As an offspring of this activity, he created a Foundation for fostering the interaction between the arts and the sciences, which organizes this Festival.

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Peter Cramer and Maarten Boasson have been playing as a duo since 1994. They have given numerous concerts covering most of the Netherlands and reaching as far as Vienna, Oxford, Nîmes, Paris and New York, and Cairo. Their repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music, and is being extended steadily. Occasionally they invite other musicians in order to play trios; recently they performed Beethoven’s Triple concerto.

The duo took lessons with Alain Meunier from the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique in Paris, and with Joel Krosnick from the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

For further information, please visit the website www.crabo.nl