Biography
Together Bobby Rootveld on guitar and Sanna van Elst on recorders form Duo NIHZ. This ensemble is from the Netherlands. NIHZ means in Dutch ‘Niet-In-Het-Zwart’ and in English this means ‘Not-Wearing-Black-Clothes’. Sanna van Elst and Bobby Rootveld both got their degrees at the Artez Conservatory of Enschede, Holland. Duo NIHZ has a big repertoire including renaissance, baroque, romantic, Spanish, own compositions, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Avant-Garde and World Music. Often Duo NIHZ also collaborates with artists from other disciplines like dancers, storytellers and painters. The way Duo NIHZ performs could be called ‘not-traditional’. Besides Chamber Music Duo NIHZ also performs with musictheatre-programmes, children’s concerts and programmes on unexpected locations. Duo NIHZ performed for Dutch and Hungarian Television and Dutch National Radio and also played in the Concertgebouw (Concertbuilding) of Amsterdam. Duo NIHZ performed in numerous countries and on special locations including: The Rundetaarn in Denmark, The Portugese Synagogue of Amsterdam, Kristallnacht-remembrance in Freudental (Stuttgart), numerous of synagogues and festivals and concerts in Holland, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Hungary etc. Duo NIHZ released several cd’s and dvd’s. In 2009 Duo NIHZ received a special award during the International Jewish Music Festival.