Musical Education

Curriculum Vitae
  • Name: Tim van de Laar
  • Age: 31
  • City: Hilversum
  • Profession: Composer/Keyboardist
  • Nationality: Dutch
  • Phone: +31 627 475 474
Tim van de laar
  1. 2000-2004

    HKU High School of Arts Utrecht Bachelor; Muziek Technology, Music Production and Composition

  2. 1999-2000

    Pre-education: Music Technology, High School of Arts Utrecht.

  3. 1994-1998

    Jazz piano lessons by master pianist `Wilbert Kivits`

  4. 1986-1993

    Public Music School: Gemert ( S.E. Brabant, the Netherlands)

    Tim started in the music industry at a young age, and this has grown into his greatest passion. He now has 23 years of experience as a keyboardist, and has developed himself into a composer and instrumentalist for a variety of media and music applications.

    Throughout the years, he's evolved into a versatile keyboardist/composer with comprehensive knowledge of the business and creative aspects of the contemporary music industry. By putting this into practice, he has developed an extensive portfolio. Due to his insight, knowledge, creativity and endless motivation, he is extremely suitable to compose music for all sorts of formats and styles, including commercials, TV show leaders, video game and film soundtracks. Also, he composes music for a wide variety of artists.

    Furthermore he is active as a band/theater keyboardist for 15 years.

Projects

  1. AngloAmerican

    TVDL Music composed music for promotion videos for the largest mining corporation `AngloAmerican’. Visual design by Pirata, Londen, UK

  2. Mole Control

    Music composer for pc game "Mole Control" from Remode Ltd game studio, Plymouth Devon, the UK.

  3. Pop Composition

    Composer/Arranger for Artist Nikos Frangiskatos.

  4. Jazz/pop composition

    Writing a composition for Babette van Veen (Warner publishing).

  5. Pop compositions

    Composer from artist Sjors van der Panne.

  6. Het Vreemdelingenlegioen

    Keyboardist in this Harry Kies theater production. (www.hetvreemdelingenlegioen.nl)

  7. Leader production

    Arrangements for Olliver Schwarz and Gerrit Elbrink.

  8. Kicks, I Feel good

    Keyboardist for this James Brown Live project by Arthur Verhofstad.

  9. Animation Uki

    Sound design project for child animation pilot by Griet Van Hemel 'Top Floor, Graphics and Motion', Leuven (Belgium) (Top Floor.to)

  10. 4real r&b/hiphop productions

    Realtime" arrangements for 12 tracks for producer Traver Duncan (4real, Londen).

  11. Animation, My Buddy The Fly

    Sound design work for an animation made by animators Wip Vernooij and Joost Lieuwma (www.wipvernooij.com, www.joostlieuwma.nl).

  12. Human Workshop

    Realtime arrangements for "Human Workshop" Dance Album. (www.humanworkshop.com)

  13. Leader, ELC Lightning B.V

    Short Company leader for this light and sound company (www.elclightning.com).

  14. Free Bird Focus

    Producing Stockmusic at travel documentary studio "Free Bird Focus", Gemert (S.E. Brabant, the Netherlands).

References

1994-2010
  1. Friction

    African Reggae band

  2. Hotel pianist

    Hotel pianist at `van der Valk` hotel Haarlem Zuid (The Netherlands)

  3. V.I.P.

    Professional coverband under "Lukassen Productions".

  4. Improphecy

    Improvisation cabaret group.

  5. Jackie Ginger

    Funkband with vocalist Fridolijn van Pol.

  6. Sugar & Spice

    Hotel and events band.

  7. Insight

    Popband in sociation with Kitchie Nadal.

  8. Convoy Exceptional

    On-call band formation for performances outside the Netherlands.

  9. Jazzylicious

    Jazz quartet for company parties and other occasions.

  10. Robben Ford Tribute band

    Five-member band with Robben Ford repertoire.

  11. Kicks

    Jazz/Funk Big-Band

  12. Pro Sessions

    Group of (ex) music students that give live jam-session based performances.

  13. MFB

    Show-band which plays old-fashioned Dutch croon songs ("smartlappen") with lots of rock influences.

  14. The Ben Spierings Band

    Prize winning Neal Diamond look-alike.

  15. Eclips

    Professional top-100 band.

  16. Sensational Power

    Top-40 Rockband.

About Me

About: At the age of 14 Tim came in contact with the sequence program Cubase and begun to develop his composition skills.

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