Esmée Olthuis en Hans Leeuw

Hans Leeuw is a trumpet player, a composer and an artistic director. He teaches at several professional colleges and universities (including Eindhoven University of Technology’s Industrial Design programme and at Utrecht School of the Arts’ Music Technology programme), he designs his own (semi)electronic musical instruments and has initiated several projects in this regard.

In addition to being the inventor of the electrumpet, Hans Leeuw is currently developing ORFF instruments for the 21st century and an ‘’Infrared Multitouch Dance Floor”.

Hans Leeuw composed several pieces for Tetzepi, including a trilogy inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, (consisting of the pieces Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso) which draws on the Carnatic principles of composition and Dante’s poetic style.