Monique Heidema

Dutch cellist and teacher; began playing the cello at the age of 16 and studied with Monique Bartels at the conservatories in Amsterdam and The Hague; she attended master classes with Colin Carr, Anner Bylsma and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. For many years she played in the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, as well as in the Cello8tet Amsterdam and the DoelenEnsemble. She teaches cello as a principal subject at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and its Sweelinck Academie as well as at the Fontys Conservatorium in Tilburg, directs the CAMH Cello Collectief and in 2018 founded the Ocrum Muziekfestival in Breda, of which she is artistic director. Peter-Jan Wagemans wrote his piece “Frage, worauf hoffen” for two cellos (1999) for Monique Bartels and her. On the album Portrait Peter-Jan Wagemans (2001) she plays this work with her teacher Monique Bartels.