SMOKEY SOUNDS
On September 30 I will play a special open-air solo concert (synthesizers and grand piano) in Tegelen.Experience art, music and heritage at the Wienerberger chimney.On September 30, 2023, artists Yvonne Rooding and Suzanne Berkers are organizing a project with the […]
WIJ – PRAYER FOR PEACE
Just like last year, together with Kerani Music, I made a soundscape for the Water and Sculpture Garden in Kasteeltuinen Arcen. This time I took my poem ‘We’ as a starting point. The sentences of ‘We’ are spoken by Huub […]
ABUNDANCE II
The album ‘Gardens of Abundance’ by Eric Vloeimans and me is now sold out, so not only a good time for a second pressing / printing of the album, but also a follow-up to our earlier tour. The new CDs […]
GARDENS OF ABUNDANCE
THEY ARE HERE! The first pressing of ‘Gardens of Abundance’ has just arrived. If you want to secure yourself a copy drop me a line and email me at egbertderix@hotmail.com to order the album. ‘Gardens of Abundance’ by Eric Vloeimans […]
New album ‘Boomasiel’ is here!!
BOOMASIEL, OUR LANDSCAPE IN MOTION This new musical project started in 2015 when poet Frans Budé asked me to set his poem ‘Song of the two trees’ to music for an exhibition in the Venlo museum van Bommel van Dam. […]
BOOMASIEL
We keep moving: I am already busy with a new inspiring project in which I have set poems to music. Poems by Frans Budé, my brother Govert Derix, Herman Verweij, Daan Kmiecik, Geert van den Munckhof, Louis Lehmann, Tsead Bruinja […]
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL – EXIT EGO
Dark Night of the Soul-Exit Ego is a double album and came about via Crowdfunding on Voor de Kunst. So they are two albums where Dark Night of the Soul contains analog synthesizer sounds in combination with the spoken words […]
Crowdfunding campaign
Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. Time for something new. After the success of my solo piano CD ‘Falco’ in 2016 and several collaborations in the past four years, I have started a crowdfunding campaign at the Dutch […]
Tour Margriet Sjoerdsma (vocals) & Egbert Derix (piano)
MARGRIET SJOERDSMA & EGBERT DERIX play ‘So 80’s, So 90’s FAVORITE SONGS’ They play their favorite songs of Billy Joel, Tracy Chapman, Madonna, Mr. Mister, Michael Sembello, Leonard Cohen, Michaell Jackson, Tom Waits and more. Supplemented with own work. A […]
NEW ALBUM ‘Favorite Songs’
Singer Margriet Sjoerdsma & Egbert Derix have released their album ‘Favorite Songs’ and are currently touring in The Netherlands. The album contains original compositions by Sjoerdsma & Derix and their take on songs by Mr Mister, Michael Sembello, Tracy Chapman, […]