Dominique Vleeshouwers
Percussion
Dominique Vleeshouwers (Weert, 1992) is a Dutch solo percussionist known professionally as DOMNIQ. He is the first percussionist to win the prestigious Dutch Music Prize and the winner of the first prize, as well as the press and the audience prize at the international TROMP Percussion Competition held in Eindhoven in 2014. He is known for his virtuosic percussion skills and out-of-the-box projects.
He graduated cum laude from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2013 with the performance Kindsoldaat (‘Child soldier’), which won him the AHK Graduation Prize of the Amsterdam University of the Arts for the best graduation presentation. That same year, he worked together Patrice Bäumel at the Amsterdam Dance Event. Dominique is also an active chamber musician and has worked with the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. He collaborated with Ivo Janssen and Mallet Collective Amsterdam to create a live recording of Simeon Ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato, selling out the Concertgebouw’s Grote Zaal.
Dominique has been a guest professor at the University of Music in Detmold and has been a teacher in the team of Percussion Friends at the Conservatory of Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Academy. He has also written two marimba methods titled Time for 4, which he will publish later this year.
He has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Asko|Schönberg, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Tokyo Sinfonietta, and Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic.