Professional Career
Nihad Hrustanbegovic has performed extensively in the Netherlands:
- 1998 at The Vredenburg Music Centre in Utrecht during the Golden Jubilee of The Foundation for Refugee Students UAF in the presence Her Majesty Queen Beatrix.
- 2005 at the “Knight Hal” in Den Haag during the fifth “Van Heuven Goedhart-Congres' and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
He has collaborated with artists including Al Di Meola, Grace Jones, The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, the acrobatic theatre dancing group The Corpus, Flairck and Mozes Rosenberg.
Nihad Hrustanbegovic released his first solo album ‘The Best of Concert Accordion’ in 2007. The CD debut was the National Dutch TV program ‘De Wereld Draait Door’. The self-produced recording includes classical transcriptions (Bach, Scarlatti, Grieg, Paganini), original contemporary works for solo accordion (Gubaidulina, Schmidt), and world music compositions (Semionov, Hrustanbegovic). In the same year he composed and played music for a TV commercial for Heineken Extra Cold. During his first accordion recital on 6th juni 2010 in Concertgebouw in Amsterdam he presented his second solo album Opus 7 The Cross-over and got the huge appreciation in Dutch News Paper Trouw by the journalist Stan Rijven: “What Pablo Casals did for emancipation of the cello, and Astor Piazzola of the bandoneon is Nihad Hrustanbegovic doing for accordion. He gives a ‘poor man’s piano’ admirable place at the Concert stage”.
Recently he's played with Grace Jones, Al Di Meola, and the jazz orchestra of the Concertgebouw. In June 2010 he gave a recital in the 'Kleine Zaal' of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and presented his second solo CD, 'Opus 7 The Cross-over'.
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