Nederlandse versie

Nicole van Bruggen-Harris studied at the Conservatorium in Sydney directly followed by a postgraduate degree in classical clarinet and authentic performance practice with Eric Hoeprich at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague from which she graduated in 1997. She is passionate about chamber music from teh 18th and 19th centuries, and alongside Trio Van Hengel, she plays in OSMOSIS and Kwartet André; with whom she was awarded a prize in 1999 in the Musica Antiqua Competition at the Flanders Festival in Brugge. As well as her regular ensembles, Nicole works as guest with a number of period instrument chamber ensembles and orchestras as a specialist in authentic clarinet, basset horn, basset clarinet and chalumeau, including The Amsterdam String Quartet, The Northern Consort and Il Concerto Barocco. She is principal clarinettist in Concerto Copenhagen, New Dutch Academy, Arte dei Suonatori and Concerto d'Amsterdam, and has performed recently with Nederlandse Bach Vereniging, Tafelmusik and Il Fondamento. Nicole has appeared as soloist with the New Dutch Academy, Il Concerto Barocco and Arte dei Suonatori (as "artist in residence" at the Festival of Strings and Bows in Poznan, Poland. She lives in The Netherlands with her husband and two children.