Look at Rolf Verbeek's agenda in these months after corona and you immediately see: here we are dealing with a busy man. Cities like Munich, Copenhagen, Antwerp, Maastricht, Paris and Amsterdam pass by. Nizhny Novgorod, formerly Gorky in Russia, is crossed out for the well-known reasons.
Profession: conductor. Residence: Groningen. "It is and remains the city where I feel at home." We agreed to meet on a sunny March day on the terrace of Merleyn, his café around the corner in De Oosterpoort. "Groningen is not centrally located, of course, and because of my frequent travel I might think about another place of employment, but I'm not contemplating that for the time being. I was born in the northern Netherlands and the mentality here suits me, my friends live here and the city basically has everything. You could call it my oasis of calm."