Jeroen van Veen (pianist)

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Jeroen van Veen (born May 2, 1969) is a Dutch classical pianist and composer.

Van Veen studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Alwin Bär and Håkon Austbø. Since 1988 he has played concerts and recitals throughout Europe and North America and has recorded over 25 CDs for Mirasound, Koch, Naxos, Brilliant Classics and his own label PIANO. Van Veen's compositions are mostly solo piano works and could be described as mostly minimal music. His latest recordings have also focused on minimal music, including a 9 CD Minimal Piano Collection box set, somewhat dominated by music by Philip Glass, the complete piano music of George Crumb and a collaboration on recording all Steve Reich's Chamber Music.

Among other functions, Van Veen is the director of the Van Veen Productions [1], Piano Mania [2], and the Simeon ten Holt Foundation [3]. He is also artistic director of the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition [4], based in Miami, where he and his brother Maarten van Veen were prize winners in 1995.