Coenraad Bloemendal

Coenraad Bloemendal (born April 30, 1946 in Amsterdam) is a Canadian cellist, who has performed, taught and recorded primarily in the field of classical music during a career that has spanned more than four decades. In the min-1960s Bloemendal studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Holland's leading cello pedagogue Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp (also the teacher of Anner Bijlsma). After graduation he moved to Bloomington Indiana in the United States to study cello with Janos Starker and chamber music with William Primrose. Still in his teens, Bloemendal started touring with a professional chamber ensemble in Holland and Germany. At 19, he joined a group of cellists from the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam for a tour of Holland and...