Jasper de Waal

Jasper de Waal has occupied the position of first horn with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since 2004. He won several regional music competitions for young musicians in 1983 and 1984. He graduated from the Brabant Conservatory, Tilburg, in 1988, where his principal teacher was Herman Jeurissen. He then received a diploma in performance from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in 1990, where he studied with Vicente Zarzo. He played first horn for the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague from 1990 through 2004.

Jasper de Waal has given solo concerts, recitals, and master classes all over the world. He is a member of the visiting faculty of the Fontys Academy of Tilburg and can be heard as a soloist on dozens of recordings of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra