Author: Brendon Heinst

TRPTK Studios, Utrecht. A video call between pianist Nicolas van Poucke in Amsterdam, drinking an Ethiopian drip coffee, and producer Brendon Heinst in Utrecht (about 50km from Amsterdam), with a shot of Burundi (about 2.700km from Ethiopia) espresso. Discuss a the new release on TRPTK. Brendon: “So, it’s finally done. You’ve just recorded, edited and […]

Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. People say you’ll need these four things to have a great wedding and a successful marriage. I’d argue it’s more than that – to us, they were four facets of our latest recording, “Where The Fence Is The Highest” by Danish jazz guitarist Teis Semey. “Where […]

Music for piano and percussion. It’s a duo that doesn’t currently have a lot of repertoire, but does deserve it. It can be more expressive and more explosive than any other kind of duo imaginable. In this album, the beautiful sonority of a big Fazioli grand piano, combined with the raw force and timbre of […]

Taking a large musical work such as an opera, and arranging it into a piece of chamber music, can be quite a daunting task, as you may imagine. But it had been done before, especially in the late 19th century. Taking Sergei Prokofiev’s masterpiece, The Fiery Angel, and recomposing – no, re-imagining – it into […]

TRPTK Sessions is a new initiative from TRPTK.  Every month one artist gets invited to the recording studio to perform a triptych of three pieces. A triptych is a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together. After recording, all remains unedited, unpolished, in its pure and raw form, […]

I have to tell you something. Something that’s been bothering me for two years now, and has been gnawing on me so much that I believe we need to do something about it. Brendon Heinst The quote above marks the very first steps towards me (Brendon Heinst, M.A.) and my colleague Luuk Meijssen, B.A., setting […]