About
Pieter Roijen, born in Margraten (NL) in 1978, started playing drums at the age of ten.
Later he studied at the Johannes Ockeghem Academy in s'Gravenvoeren with Jo Zinzen and in Maastricht with Pieter Janssen and Werner Otten. While studying, he played with the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra and the European Youth Orchestra. He received lessons from Raymond Curfs, Bert Flas, Ruud Wiener and Rainer Seegers.1999-2001 he was a percussion intern at the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, in 2001 he was engaged as a solo timpanist in the Gelders Orkest. From 2007 Pieter Roijen was acting solo timpanist with obligation to play the drums in the Bavarian State Orchestra, since March 2011, he is engaged there as a solo timpanist.
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