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Introduction
Marcel Worms(Amsterdam, 7th of October 1951) is a piano player from the Netherlands. When he finished secondary education at the Vossius Gymnasium he started studiying Biology. After his study he became a biology teacher at the Gymnasium Felisenum untill he turned 32. At that age he decided to go to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and he finished the conservatorium in 1987 mainly taught by Hans Dercksen. After the Conservatory he specialised in 20th Century piano music and Chamber Music together with Hans Broekman. He also took lessons from the famous Russian Pianoplayer Yuri Egorov.

Blues Project
His program 'Blues for piano' to which many well-known Dutch composers contributed with a piece has been premeried in January 1997 at the Bimhuis, jazz centre in Amsterdam. In the meantime some 170 new Blues pieces have been composed for this project including pieces from around 50 different countries around the world. From 1998 till 2008 Marcel Worms played this program in alot of European countries. He also played this program outside Europe for example, China, Indonesia, Middle East, Israel, Russia,Far East, USA, South-Africa, South America and Cuba.

Federico Mompou
Since 2002 Marcel Worms plays alot of music from the composer Federico Mompou. He even made 3 CD's with the works of this Spanish composer. In 2007 he organised a 3-day Mompou festival in Amsterdam. In 2008 he went to Barcelona to recover the unpublished works of Mompou that was never used. In 2009 he was the first pianoplayer in the world to record the unpublished works of Mompou.

Discography
Eventough Marcel has alot of solo CD's. He also plays together with flutist Eleonore Pameijer, violinist Ursula Schoch and soprano Irene Maessen. Marcel made 26 CD's in his career till now. His first CD was named Chamberworks by Darius Milhaud and it was made in Amsterdam, September 1992.