Biography

Filip Davidse completed his Master Studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where he studied with Henk van Twillert. Besides that, he also has a Masters degree in theoretical high energy physics, which he studied at the Free University of Amsterdam.

He regularly performs both in Holland and abroad, and collaborates with, among others, the pianist Naomi Tamura and the composer and yangqin player Kim Ho Ip.
At the moments he also performs a lot with pianist Natsuko Tamaru.
He has recorded CD's with Kimho and Naomi, go to 'discography' for further details. Besides playing and teaching he also composes, and in doing so focuses mainly on chamber music and jazz.
He used to play in the jazz group "IKKI" but has now started with the "De Schicht". They only play their own compositions.

He is not only interested in classical, contemporary and jazz music, but also in non-Western music. And then specifically in music (both contemporary and traditional) from Japan and China.
He, for example, recently performed during the "Edinburgh Mela Festival 2009" in Schotland, and gave masterclasses about Japanese music at the conservatory of Porto, Portugal.