Job Huiskamp
Cello
⟹ The Netherlands, 2000
⟹ 1st x Cello Biënnale
Job Huiskamp began playing the cello in Zwolle in 2008. In 2013, Job received an honourable mention at ‘The Britten Cello Competition’ in Zwolle. Jury member Karlien Bartels invited him to audition for the Young Talent Class at the ArtEZ Conservatoire, after which he was admitted. Two years later, in 2015, he won first prize at ‘The Britten Cello Competition’.
In 2019, Job graduated cum laude from the Music Performance programme at Deltion College Zwolle, where he had been studying bass guitar alongside the cello since 2016. Job continued his cello studies with Karlien Bartels at the ArtEZ Conservatoire in Zwolle. In 2020, he transferred to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam to study classical cello with Maarten Mostert and Pieter Wispelwey, and improvisation and composition with Tim Kliphuis. Job is a member of the Otilka String Quartet and the Amsterdam Doktet.
Job has attended masterclasses with, amongst others, Jan Kalinowski, Mario Carneiro, Jeroen Reuling and Stephan Braun.
