Biografie Erik Visser



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Biography Erik Visser.
Erik Visser was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, however the Visser family moved back to Holland when Erik was just three years old. He grew up in the south of Holland, close to the Belgian border. He started guitar lessons when he was nine in the local village pub using his father’s old jazz guitar. A year later Erik began guitar lessons with classical guitarist Benny Ludemann and played in a mandoline orchestra conducted by his teacher.
Erik left school in 1970 and studied architecture at the University of Delft until 1975. During this period he started a band called Golliwogg, and toured with other musicians. During an Irish tour with Irish-American singer Coleen Kelly, Erik met Antoinette Hensey. Antoinette and Erik married in 1977 and moved to Holland where they had two children, Anna and Tom.
Between 1977 and 1982 Erik studied musical theory and composition with Wim Witteman of the Conservatory of Utrecht.
In 1978 he established the group Flairck with his brother Hans, flautist Peter Weekers and violinist Judy Schomper. The group quickly became successful and Erik, who had by then moved back to Ireland, toured all over the world with the band.
In 1985 Erik Visser wrote and produced the album “Tired and Emotional” for the Irish singer Mary Coughlan, who became very successful in Ireland and internationally. He worked with Mary on six further albums. Erik has also produced for Gavin Friday and several Dutch artists including the young gipsy band Basily.
Flairck remained the most important initiative in Erik’s career and over the last 25 years he has been both the musical and organisational director of the group, which has played nearly 2000 concerts and released 20 albums.
Erik’s first musical influences were classical (guitar) music and sixties pop music. Later he became interested in traditional music from different parts of the world, particularly Celtic folk music; he has long mourned the lack of a Dutch traditional music. Having travelled widely Erik has been exposed to a wide variety of musical instruments, and has collected and studied many of these, including the Indian sitar (which he tried to introduce into Irish folk music), the Greek bouzouki, the English dulcimer, the American banjo, the Chinese pipa, the south American charango and the Turkish saz. Erik has been primarily interested in acoustic instruments and owns a collection of over 60 instruments including a complete Indonesian gamelan, a copy of a medieval hurdygurdy-organ, a glassharmonica, theremin, viola da gamba, harpsichord and many 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 24 guitars and other stringed instruments.
Influenced by east European folk music, and modern classical composers such as Stravinsky and Bartok, Erik often incorporates uneven rhythmical patterns in his compositions. His melodic lines and harmonies are reminiscent of classical and traditional European music. His longer compositions such as the violin concerto “Variations on a Lady” and the guitar concerto “Fight with the Angel” are often classically structured. He has also written several large compositions with ‘film-like’ themes, which have been used in Flairck’s theatre productions, such as The Parade, The Golden Age, Chambers, and Circus Hieronymus Bossch.
Erik also made arrangements of traditional melodies from Lebanon (Arabesques), Ireland, Chile, Belgium, Israel and Japan, as well as arrangements of classical works of Bach, Händel and Vivaldi. He has written music for five short films, as well as the music for an opera which tells the story of the last 100 years of Dutch history.
Erik has composed songs and music for a number of artists including George Moustaki, Maggy Reilly, Mary Coughlan, Herman van Veen, Ramses Shaffy, Alexandra van Marken, and Natalia Rogalski. Dance companies such as Introdans (Holland) and the Idaho Dance Theater (USA), have used his music for ballet productions.

He developed the idea of Cuerpos Tocados (music for the human body) for the large Chilean audio visual production Cuerpos Pintados.


Erik has composed numerous solo guitar pieces and in 2003 recorded his first solo album, “One Man Parade”. During the 2004-2005 season he will tour Holland with this album. He intends to continue to work as a solo artist, as well as with Flairck, in the future.
Winter 2004
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