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132. in Schuylerville (New York) I stayed with composer Hilary Tann in her historical Marshall House with a Steinway from 1849
133. lecture at Union College in Schenectady (NY) for the class of Hilary Tann (standing next to me)
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135. with composer Chris Gendall (New-Zealand) at Cornell University in Ithaca (NY) where I performed his piece 'Where it hits'
136. fortunately there was still a diner open after the concert in Montevallo (Alabama) (with composer Joseph Landers and his wife Diana)

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125. Tango dancecouple in Bar El Sur, Buenos Aires
126. Salon Dorado del Edificio de la Secretaria de Cultura del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
127. The organization of the Festival thinks we are from Belgium
128. View from the hotelroom in Sao Paulo, Latin-America's biggest city
129. In Santos (Brazil) we play in the Coliseu Theatre
130. Eleonore with Brazilian composer Gilberto Mendes in his house in Santos

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122. announcement of my concert in Worms: Worms plays in Worms (Germany)
123. the jewish cemetery of Worms, the oldest in Europe
124. at the muncipal archives in Worms, searching for my ancestors - Pamela Sturhoofd is making a radio documentary for the dutch jewish broadcasting

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121. concert at the Academia Granados-Marshall: concert to commemorate the death of Carmen Bravo, pianist and widow of Federico Mompou, who passed away April 29, 2007 - from left to right: Gani Jakupi (Kosovo, journalist), Moises Bertran y Ventejo (composer), Alicia Torra (daughter of Alicia de Larrocha), David Albanell (pianist) en Monica Pagés (journalist, musichistorian)

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119. the Embassy of the Netherlands, where the concert took place
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114. The cantor of the Riga Synagoge singing at the dinner after our concert at the Jewish Theatre
115. Town Hall Square in the Old Town of Tallinn (Estonia)
116. Panoramic view of Tallinn, where we played on the occasion of the International Holocaust Memorial Day
117. In the Lithuanian capital Vilnius (birthplace of violin genius Jascha Heifetz) we played in the Jascha Heifetz Hall
118. Reception after our Vilnius concert in the Jewish Community Building

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109. Text on a wall in the old jewish ghetto in Lvov
110. Eleonore with composer Bohdan Sedin in front of our concert announcement
111. Holocaust monument in Odessa - on the left pianist Tatyana Kravchenko, who arranged our concert
112. Exhibition at Kievs Independence Square to commemorate the Orange Revolution (2004)
113. Synagoge in Kiev of the Lubavitcher Chassidic jews with kosher bar next door - in the Ukraïne we played our program Music from the Time of Anne Frank

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106. with Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha for whom I played before recording Federico Mompou's 'Musica Callada'
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101. rehearsal with composer Joseph Landers shortly before the first performance of his piece at Princeton University
102. after our Princeton University Concert with, from left to right, composers Steve Mackey, Joseph Landers, Martin Scherzinger and Alon Nechushtan
103. relaxed strawberry picking after our concert at Montevallo University
104. concert with singer Robert Osborne in his New York appartment
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95. The Old Stone Bridge connecting Skopje's Macedonian and Albanian parts
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97. the Daud Pasa Baths used to be the biggest Turkish bathhouse on the Balkan and now houses the City Art Gallery; this is where our concert took place
98. Concert at the City Art Gallery
99. Macedonian composer Gose Kolarovski (left) and Kosovarian composer Valton Biquiri whose works we played in Skopje
100. Albanian composers Rafet Rudi (left) and Thoma Simaku

Bosnia tour March 12 - 16, 2006

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85. the reconstructed bridge of Mostar, connecting the Moslim - and Croatian parts of the city
86. performing for schoolchildren in Mostar: music about springtime inspires the kids to draw their personal 'Spring in Mostar'
87. live in the breakfast show on national television in Sarajevo
88. concert at the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo at the Sarajevo Winter Festival
89. flowers and candles in Banja Luka after the death of Milosevic
90. concert hall in Banja Luka
91. the 5 a.m. bus from Banja Luka to Sarajevo

Sri Lanka and India tour November 22 - December 4, 2005

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76. Cara as a guestplayer in the Calcutta Chamber Orchestra
77. concert in the Calcutta School of Music
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79. playing Mozart 4 hands pianomusic with our hostess Bridget in Kandy (Sri Lanka)
80. Elephants Orphanage in Sri Lanka
81. Colombo (Sri Lanka)
82. Eleonore plays the flute for the staff at the 'Silk Emporium' in Bangalore
83. preparing for the Bangalore concert
84. Chennai (Madras) - forth from the right is composer Ganesh Kumar

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73. with Slovenian composer Crt Sojar Voglar at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana
74. Ljubljana's Old Town
75. in front of the Conservatory of Ljubljana with, from left to right, Slovenian composers Matevz Smerkol, Brina Zupancic and Dusan Bavdek

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61. At the masterclass Ana and Nia play Brahms' Haydnvariations on the Conservatory of Tbilisi
62. the Tbilisi Conservatory
63. Marcels appartment in Tbilisi (see arrow)
64. students at the masterclass in Tbilisi
65. Masterclass in Kutaisi
66. guest performance with the Georgian Jazz Quartet at the Tbilisi Music Centre
67. with pianist Nino Khutshisvilli in Kutaisi at our departure to Tbilisi
68. Masterclass in Kutaisi
69. children are painting while I perform for them (organized by Warchild Georgia) 1
70. children are painting while I perform for them (organized by Warchild Georgia) 2
71. children are painting while I perform for them (organized by Warchild Georgia) 3
72. children are painting while I perform for them (organized by Warchild Georgia) 4

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50. the harbour of Byblos, north of Beiruth
51. violinist Riad Abdel-Gawad spontaneously takes his violon in a Beirut restaurant
52. Beirut - American University
53. Beiruth - the spot where ex-prime-minister Hariri was murdered
54. singer Soumaya Baalbaki and the dance-couple Daniël and Rania Haddad
55. Soumaya, Daniel and Rania on the stage of the Medina Theatre in Beirut
56. jamsession with Riad and Nibah El Khatib
57. with Lebanese composer Setrak Setrakian in Beiruth
58. Roman Theatre in Amman
59. Pianotuner at work in Amman
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47. In the Felfela Restaurant in Caïro with composers Ali Osman and Mohamed Abdel-Fatah
48. Lecture and masterclass at Cairo Conservatory
49. The Giza pyramids near Cairo

USA Tour with Eleonore Pameijer: February 22 - March 2, 2005

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42. Concert at the Chicago Cultural Center
43. In Hartford with composers Robert Carl and Elizabeth Austin
44. In Hartford with Jozef Karac, author of Music in Theresienstadt
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38. Fallafel on Dizengoffsquare, Tel Aviv
39. Bethlehem, Manger Square - with Saleem and Dayani
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32. The Conservatory of Music in la Paz
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34. with Bolivian composers Oldrich Halas (left) and Oscar García
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27. with Eleonore at the 'New Music Scene of Prishtina'
28. children on a school in Lebushé are listening to our performance, organized by Warchild Kosovo
29. concert for handicapped children in the Serbian village of Gracanica
30. from left to right : unknown - Rafet Rudi (composer, artistic director Festival) - Arta Zeqiraj (composer and policeofficer) - Ilir Bajri (pianist, composer)- Eleonore - Valton Biqiri (composer) - Irene Maessen (soprano) - Marcel
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26. Marcel and Eleonore after their concert in the Amstelkerk in Amsterdam on April 2, 2004 with (from left to right) the composers Chiel Meijering, Gilberto Mendes (Brazil), Ronald Snijders and Martin Scherzinger (South-Africa)

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19. Concert Surabaya - December 2, 2003
20. Signing programs after concert in Yogyakarta, December 6, 2003
21. With composer Sapto Raharjo after the performance of his 'Malioboro Blues', Yogyakarta, December 6, 2003
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19. With the Cuban composer Roberto Valera
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22. Matanzas - Teatro Sauto

These pictures were taken at a lecture at the China Conservatory in Beijing (photos: Dominque Landau)

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photos: Jarko Aikens

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1. première Trio Françaix (1992)
2. Marcel at Poulencs piano in Noizay (1988)
3. Ensemble Polytonal with Ms.Madeleine Milhaud in Paris (1992)
4. Marcel at Leos Jánaceks piano in Brno (1991)