New: CD ‘TANGO NOCHE’: Kay Sleking (guitar and bass) and Martin de Ruiter (bandoneon)
12 highly danceable tangos, milongas and waltzes. To listen to some samples: go to ‘audio’



Biography

Martin de Ruiter
studied the accordion at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, and chamber music at the Rotterdam Conservatory.
Initially, he focused mainly on contemporary music and played with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Scapino Ballet, Slagwerk Den Haag and the Metropole Orchestra.
He participated in theater productions by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Nationale Toneel and Huis aan de Amstel, both as player and composer. As a soloist and conductor he worked at festivals in the Netherlands (e.g. Musica Sacra), in Germany (e.g. A‘Devantgarde in Munich) and in France (e.g. Octobre en Normandie in Rouen, Musicavoix in Evreux and Musique Action in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy).

In 1992 he began playing the bandoneon in the ensemble Che Tango.
In 1995 he founded the quartet El Conjunto, a company he later expanded to the quintet Conjunto Nuevo.
These groups did concerts in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Uruguay and Argentina, and appeared in several TV programs (including ‘Reiziger in Muziek’ and ‘Zaal Hollandia’) and at various festivals (including Poetry International , Dunya Festival and Joventango Festival Internacional Tango in Uruguay)
He played the solo bandoneon in the tango opera ‘Maria de Buenos Aires’ by Astor Piazzolla in performances in the Netherlands and Japan, and solo bandoneon in the ‘Misa Tango’ by Luis Bacalov.

He has written several scores for silent films including ‘un Chien Andalou’ (1929), ‘Submarine’ (1928) and ‘Der Mandarin’ (1918): the latter was performed live at the ‘Konzerthaus’ in Vienna.
Martin de Ruiter is programmer of the Filmmuseum Biennale and in EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

He is also producer.
His most recent project: the production of the music for the DVD: ‘JC Lamster, an early filmmaker in the Dutch East Indies’,
commissioned by EYE Film Institute and the Royal Tropical Institute