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288. the crown prince of Buthan is one of the guests in the show as well
289. copy of an old dhow, attached to my hotel in Kuwait City
290. the concert hall is inside this ship
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292. my grand piano in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Muscat (Oman)
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282. Paramaribo's wooden cathedral before the New Years concert
283. with students after their presentation at the Conservatory
284. after the New Years concerts the students give me a clock in order to keep thinking of Suriname until my next visit in June 2013
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271. Jekaterinburg: opposite this church Tsar Nicolas II and his family were murdered in 1918
272. masterclass at a jazz musicschool in Jekaterinburg
273. poster of my concert at the Conservatory of Krasnodar
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275. Sunday morning service in the Cathedral of Irkutsk
276. Folk music Festival at the Irkutsk Filharmonia
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264. with the students of my workshop at the University of Ibadan
265. Theo is demonstrating the mechanism of the piano at the University of Jos
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267. the military escort that accompanied us on our way to Jos
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255. Hotel Al Bustan in Muscat, five stars or more, a surprising location for a bluesprogram...
256. Muscat: the Souk
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243. with Ursula Schoch in the Chamber Music Hall of the Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio)
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238. we spend the night at a 13th-century castle near Cremona, being guests of Jan Brokkens' Italian publisher
239. a Stradivarius violin at the Stradivarius Museum in Cremona
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222. painting with the children in Seeta
223. two Ugandan composers wrote a blues for me: Job Tezigwata and Lawrence Semanda
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212. after a charity concert in the Kempinski Hotel in Dar Es Salaam one of the ushers takes a site behind the piano. The ushers are models who are supposed to accompany the visitors to their seats
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204. guitar player Kiri after having played until 3 a.m. at the Club Planet and immediately afterwards having seen the birth of his first child early in the morning
205. view over Kigali from the 'Hotel de Mille Collines', the scene of the famous movie 'Hotel Rwanda' and on May 30 the location of my concert
206. the painting I just bought for my wife's childrens Art Gallery 'AKKU' is being rolled up
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196. with Viim (percussion) and Gregoire (bassguitar) during the concert in Ouagadougou
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187. catching fish near the Jebel Aulia barrage in the Nile
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189. students at my workshop at the College of Music and Drama (Khartoum University)
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177. Composer and director of the Festival 'Spheres and Hemispheres', Aleksander Peçi, in front of the Academy of Arts in Tirana
178. Masterclass with students of pianist Merita Tershana at the Tirana Music Academy
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170. Concert at the Dutch residency for Dutch children, children from the Kampala Music School and Ugandese orphans
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163. Cafe excelente en Cuba
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151. Open air concert on the campus of the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Bucaramanga
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154. Concert in Barancabermeja
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142. scores and letters by Viktor Ullmann in the Theresiënstadt Museum.
143. with Czech singer Olga Cerna on the banks of the Moldau in Prague.
144. Theresiënstadt, Kulturni Dom - in this hall the concerts during the Second World War took place, a.o. the numerous performances of the opera Burundibar by Hans Krasa.
145. performance of Viktor Ullmanns 7th Sonata for piano at the 'Festival of Forbidden Music' in Theresiënstadt. Ullmann finished his last work in august 1944, 2 months before his deportation to Auschwitz on October 16 1944, where he was murdered directly upon his arrival.
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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)
134. minus 12 F in Vermillion (South-Dakota) on the way from my hotel to the University of South-Dakota
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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Bosnia tour March 12 - 16, 2006

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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
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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
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73. with Slovenian composer Crt Sojar Voglar at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana
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61. At the masterclass Ana and Nia play Brahms' Haydnvariations on the Conservatory of Tbilisi
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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
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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
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52. Beirut - American University
53. Beiruth - the spot where ex-prime-minister Hariri was murdered
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57. with Lebanese composer Setrak Setrakian in Beiruth
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USA Tour with Eleonore Pameijer: February 22 - March 2, 2005

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39. Bethlehem, Manger Square - with Saleem and Dayani
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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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20. Signing programs after concert in Yogyakarta, December 6, 2003
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19. With the Cuban composer Roberto Valera
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These pictures were taken at a lecture at the China Conservatory in Beijing (photos: Dominque Landau)

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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)