Dutch clarinettist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer graduated with distinction at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Walter Boeykens and continued his studies at the Juilliard School with clarinettist Charles Neidich, supported by Fulbright and Bernstein scholarships. He is a first prize winner of the National Concours of the Jong Muziektalent Nederland Foundation and the National Final of the Prinses Christina Concours, for which he was awarded the Gaudeamus and the Residentie Orkest prize. In 1999 he received the Philip Morris Finest Selection Prize. As a soloist Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer has performed with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and the Beethoven Academie. As a member of the Delos Ensemble he toured throughout Bosnia Herzegovina and the Middle East. With the Euterpe Wind Quintet he has recorded Willem Jeth’s Onde, and as a chamber musician he performs with Maurice Bourgue, Charles Neidich, Eduard Brunner, Miranda van Kralingen and with the Cleveland Quartet. Theodoris Abaziz composed the piece Euro for him, of which he gave the première in Carnegie Hall in 2001. His recording of works by Reger, Berg and Keuris for Emergo Classics received the Edison Award Young Masters. He also appears on several Naxos recordings with Spectrum Concerts Berlin. Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer has been a member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 2000.

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