Duo Belder Kimura

In 2014 Rie Kimura (baroque violin) and Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord and fortepiano) collaborated for the first time on a recording of Duphly’s works for keyboard. This collaboration resulted in a successful tour through Japan, after which they decided to start a less ad hoc partnership. They explore the great and vast repertoire for violin and keyboard of the 18th and early 19th century. Rie and Pieter-Jan search for an energetic and intense music-making by focusing on the rhetorical qualities of the music from this era, which was as important in 17th century music as in the music by Mozart and Beethoven.

In 2017 they released a recording of the complete C.P.E. Bach works for violin and keyboard on the label Resonus Classics. The Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant considered it one of the 50 best CD productions of 2017. The recording was also highly praised in The Observer (UK). 2018 will see the release of a CD of Mozart sonatas and work will begin on a recording of the violin sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

“Pieter-Jan Belder has a special feeling for these quirky and capricious works, keeping form and content firmly together.” – Presto Classical

“Baroque violinist Rie Kimura performs with striking flair and musicianship…strong in personality and imbued with expression and rhetoric.” – BBC Music Magazine