Lidy Blijdorp & Tobias Borsboom
Biographie Lidy Blijdorp & Tobias Borsboom
Lidy Blijdorp
graduated cum laude from The Hague, Amsterdam and Paris Conservatories, where she studied with Monique Bartels and Michel Strauss. After that she obtained her Artist Diploma at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Gary Hoffman.
Lidy Blijdorp performed as a soloïst with a.o. the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, the State Hermitage Orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège and the Residentie Orchestra.
Lidy has broad musical interests and a passion for discovering new music.
The following pieces have been dedicated to Lidy Blijdorp: Elegie for cello and orchestra by Sergei Yevtuschenko(2013) Lidy’s Piece by Kate Moore (2016), Cello Song–as If by Dutch composer Ig Henneman (2018), Alex, how is it going with your Cello Concertino? by the Georgian composer Alexandre Kordzaia (2020), a double concerto by Trevor Grahl (2022) and the cello concerto Trailblazer by the Dutch composer Joel Bons (2022).
Lidy obtained prizes at the Prinses Christina Concours, Charles Hennen Concours, Amsterdamse Cellobiennale, Grachtenfestival Conservatorium Concours (2012), Prix Academie Maurice Ravel (2014).
Lidy has the honour of playing the beautiful Farotti cello of Anner Bylsma and a Persoit bow, both lent to her by the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.
Tobias Borsboom
The Dutch pianist Tobias Borsboom is known for a ‘golden touch’ (Trouw) and his ‘personal and immensely colourful playing’ (Dagblad van het Noorden/ Leeuwarder Courant). Het Parool wrote on the occasion of his latest CD that ‘Young daredevil Tobias Borsboom deserves sold out halls with his beautiful Pan’.
Borsboom has established himself as a versatile and creative musician with great finesse and a broad repertoire. In recent seasons, Tobias has performed in all major concert halls in the Netherlands as winner of the Dutch Classical Talent Award and Audience Award. With his solo programme Wanderer and as a soloist in Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F with the Netherlands Student Orchestra, he has toured in the Netherlands and abroad. He also performs as a soloist with the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and in 2026 with the Residentie Orkest. In his solo recitals, he presents high-profile programmes in which he combines the great masters with contemporary music. Together with piano duo partner Yukiko Hasegawa, Tobias Borsboom regularly performs in Japan, where they were elected as ‘Shizuoka no Meishutachi’ (Masters of Shizuoka) in 2018. His debut album Wanderer and his recording with ‘Pan’ by Vítězslav Novák have been received with much praise in the press and media.
Borsboom excels not only as a soloist, but also as an inspired chamber musician. The Festival Klassiek achter de Duinen, which he organises together with violinist and duo partner Pieter van Loenen, has since 2021 quickly grown into an important event, praised for its top artists, attractive programming and good atmosphere.
Borsboom's artistic interests are broad, as evidenced by numerous collaborations with other art forms. With author Jan Brokken he regularly gives literary concerts. As an acting musician, Tobias Borsboom plays in his own productions ‘The Schubertians & the Housewarming 1826’ and ‘Schubert/Schober’. And his collaborative music-theatre production with Oorkaan, 'Mr. Tobias and the Black Monster', delighted audiences of hundreds of children and their parents.
He completed his master's degree with Jan Wijn at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2013. Before that, he was trained by Paolo Giacometti (Utrecht Conservatory, Young Talent). In addition to his active concert life, Tobias Borsboom works at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
