Henne Stoel was born March 31st 1955 in Utrecht. When he was eight
years old he began taking piano lessons. After having lived in towns like
Hoogvliet and Ridderkerk, he settled in Rotterdam, where at the age
of sixteen, he started playing the French horn.
He continued his musical education at the Rotterdam School of Music.
Since 1975, he was part of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as a horn- player.
With this orchestra, he made tours in Europe, America and also Japan and China (Hong Kong).
In 1982 he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to composing,
which had already occupied his leisure time for about ten years.
His compositions have strong autobiographical elements.
Henne Stoel generally composes in a Neo-Romantic style, i.e. the
composition in a whole determines the arising detail.
Personal impressions of a philosophic nature play an important part of
his work.
The compositions he was asked to make for several small ensembles
bear the name personal "angle of incidence"
It may be expected that Henne Stoel, considering the very special
connection in this interpretation of his work between social movements
and circumstances at one side and his personal feeling at the other side, will develop into a particular composer in the Dutch, but especially in the European musical world.
