Wim After Hours

If you like the sound of classical music but don’t have much time to listen to full symphonies or concertos, Wim’s recent album (Christmas 2024) Wim After Hours is your thing and you can find it on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, and many more distribution channels. On this site, you will find track by track details of that album.

The album was recorded and mixed in 2024 by Peter Bulkens at Rockstar Studio in Niel, Belgium.

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Music

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Musicians

Andrey Lebedev

Born in Moscow and raised in Australia, Andrey is an exceptional guitarist. His extensive solo repertoire includes important works from the late twentieth century, and he has given the world premieres of major compositions by Peter Sculthorpe and Brett Dean, and...

Antoine Préat

Born in Paris in 1997, Antoine Préat began learning the piano at the age of nine and made his debut a year later at the Salle Gaveau. After graduating with honours from the École normale de musique de Paris-Alfred-Cortot, where he studied with Ludmila Berlinskaya and...

Thibaut De Bondt

Thibaut De Bondt is a student at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (brass department). His interest in music started early: at 6 years old he started his journey at the school for Music and Drama in Willebroek (Belgium). He used to play the cornet before switching...

Alex Van Eyck

Alex Van Eyck is a guitarist and music lover (I believe mainly Jazz and Classical), with whom I’ve had the privilege of sharing a flat whilst we were colleagues in London. We were banking lawyers during the day and played the guitar before and after work. Alex has...

Donnacorda (string quartet)

The Donnacorda string quartet saw the light of day in 2008 as a derivative from the Donnacorda string orchestra directed by Eva Vermeeren. The current members (Eva Vermeeren, Katrien De Bièvre, Liesbeth De Lombaert and Hans Van Daele) met in the former chamber...

Dennis Wijntjens

Dennis Wijntjens was born in 1976 in Geleen, Netherlands and grew up in Maastricht . He received his first violin lesson from Paul Aerts (Belgium) in Maastricht in 1984 , when he was 8 years old. From 1989 to 1991 he also received private lessons in...

Nathan Quirynen

Nathan Quirynen is an instrumentalist (violin) from Marche-En-Famenne (Belgium). He is mainly experienced in interdisciplinary projects, chamber music, choral music and symphonic music. He holds degrees from the Leuven based Lemmensinstituut and from the Antwerp...

Nadia Bierinckx

Nadia is a classically trained and very experienced flute player. With prizes and degrees from the conservatories of Brussels, Antwerp and Gent, she immerses herself in virtually any music style and delivers flawless lived through performances. At a very young age...

Wim Hautekiet

During business hours, Wim is busy with lawyering (or related business roles). After hours, he creates all sorts of melodies and arrangements, and has done this for ages. Wim After Hours: Morning busyness : Guitar Intermezzo : Vocals, Guitars and piano World untouched...

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Composers

Wim Hautekiet

Tobias Hautekiet

Tobias is my youngest son and is equally addicted to music. He spent four years in Greece providing legal support to refugees. The piece he contributed to this album clearly shows the influence of long nights out in Athens. I think he was rather pleased on how his...

Tim Hautekiet

Tim Hautekiet is a talented filmmaker known for his innovative storytelling and creative vision. He has made a significant impact in the world of short films and web series, captivating audiences with his unique style and compelling narratives. Tim's journey in...

Niklas Hautekiet

Niklas is my oldest son and loves playing music. Not sure whether he prefers the guitar or the piano. So glad he contributed one of his typical energetic piano pieces to this album. He didn’t seem to be too unhappy after I added guitar and bass. When not playing...

Dirk Schiltz

Dirk and I used to hang out in the same area near Antwerp when we were young lads, and we played in the same rock band, where he played the trumpet and was the singer (not simultaneously!). We enjoyed singing in close harmony, and we were certainly big fans of the...

Wim After Hours

Music

The classical guitar: three slow waltzes

Short string quartet movements

Violin Driven

Piano Driven

After work mood pieces

A Homely Suite (only on physical CD)

Musicians

Composers