The Arrangers
At the moment, there are mainly 3 arrangers working for NOTP.
Franck van der Heijden
Dominique Vanhaegenberg
Geert Keysers
Franck van der Heijden writes since 1995 the arrangements of the pop classics for the orchestra. Franck got a degree of arranging/composing and guitar – light music at the conservatory of Hilversum. He writes and arranges for different orchestras and occupations, and is also active as guitar player and/or musical director for different bands, orchestras and artists.
For more information, see our interview with Franck.
Dominique Vanhaegenberg is writing arrangements for the orchestra since 2001.
Dominique got a higher degree Trombone (Magna cum laude) at the Royal Music conservatory of Ghent in the class of Michel Tilkin. From 1991 on, he was the first soloist Trombone at the New Flemish Symphonic Orchestra (momentarily Flemish Symphonic Orchestra), a place he left in 2000 to be the First Soloist Trombone at the Flemish Radio Orchestra (Previous BRTN-Philharmonic Orchestra). He worked freelance with different national and international orchestras and ensembles (Beethoven Academy, Rotterdam’s Philharmonic Orchestra, I Fiamminghi, de Munt, Il Novecento,…) and composed for different instruments and occupations.
Nowadays, he profiles himself mainly as arranger for different occupations.
Geert Keysers is piano player and joined the Electric Band in 2008; since then he arranged some songs for Night of the Proms.
He plays in a Herman Brood cover band, called ‘Broodnodig’, together with some members of Volumia! He’s also active as producer of his own studio and guides a lot of artists outside the Proms. You will not only recognize him on stage because of his musical talents but also because of his height.
Geert Keysers on Facebook
His channel on YouTube
‘On Christmas Day’, produced by Geert