DOMNIQ

Dominique Vleeshouwers, known professionally as DOMNIQ, is a virtuoso Dutch percussionist who combines solo performances with innovative projects and collaborations with dancers, artists, and writers, moving easily between classical, world and new music. Ceaselessly creative and curious, he has researched drumming traditions around the world and brought elements into his own performance and compositions.

As a soloist, DOMNIQ has performed concertos with ensembles around the world and last season he gave the world premiere of Daniel Wohl’s Uncanny Valley, which combines composition and field recordings with improvisation and AI software. He also performed Daníel Bjarnason’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and Peter Eötvös’ Speaking Drums in Canada and Spain, a work he returns to this season with São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. 

Other highlights this season include Eötvös' Speaking Drums with São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Fazil Say’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and Bjarnason’s Inferno with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He also tours his own solo programme, Water Ripples, featuring his own music and works by Daniel Wohl, Vincent Houdijk, Samuel Carl Adams and Hanna Benn, showcasing the lyrical side of percussion. A 4D sound version will be performed at The Concertgebouw in December 2024. There will also be a theatre tour of A New Dawn in The Netherlands in Feburary 2025.