May I introduce you to five pillars of my professional life?
Five C’s: Concerts, Classes, Creations, Compositions and Coaching.
Concerts
Enjoy listening to music?
Whether with others or by myself, performing is my primary instinct.
I am currently offering solo percussion and voice concerts.
Trouw ‘Bart Fermie is van het niveau van zijn beste collega’s bij Weather Report.’
Classes
PATEMPA: educational tools for you
Numerous people of all walks of life have joined my individual classes and workshops - masters and amateurs, dancers, actors, teachers, students, vocalists and instrumentalists.
In collaborations with many participants, I developed PATEMPA: Build Your Musical Body, an embodied musical learning tool that will move you! PATEMPA stands for Practical Approach To Enhancing Musical Performance Abilities.
Femke Smit, singer-composer
It made me realise that in making music I can follow my impulses and trust my intuition. PATEMPA is great for people who are looking for musical depth and new sources of inspiration.
Dominique Vleeshouwers, percussionist
By working with PATEMPA I started to feel what the music was about.
Erik Larrea, percussionist
It helped me not only to develop a technique to show and teach things to others, but also to start being more confident with myself.
Marwijn van der Poel, percussionist
In general Bart Fermie's approach consists of actively using your ‘whole being’.
Creations
Percussion instruments for you
I designed several percussion instruments based on a simple synergetic principle: one plus one equals more!
Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez
Bart Fermie is the king of small percussion.
Compositions
Songs and tunes for you
Fuelled by life and people: I love to compose!
Music Maker ‘Op Beyond Words and Dreams verrast hij vooral als componist. In een stijl die doet denken aan die van Pat Metheny blijkt hij uitstekende nummers te kunnen schrijven.’
Coaching
Personified assistance
Let’s find out how to propel your performance to the next level!
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinetist:
Bart was so inspiring as a teacher that I often happened to be much more excited about practising the Tang Tang than my clarinet.
Mose Franssen, singer:
Every class is unique.
Mimoun Oaïssa, actor:
Met ontzettend veel kennis van zaak en passie voor muziek heeft hij mij uitstekend gecoacht op muzikaal vlak.
Tineke Schouten comedian:
Er ging een wereld aan ideeën voor me open.
On this Spotify radio list you may listen to 42 tunes I played percussion on, artists I recorded with and songs 4 and 36 I (co)produced. The first song called ‘Elisa’ and numbers 8, 11, 22, 25, 28 and 37, I composed myself.
I hope you’ll enjoy it!