Official Soundcloud of Dutch singer/songwriter a balladeer. New album almost done.

Bhusundi is a band that hatched from the heart and mind of Bertram van Alphen and Tom Dicke. With both a degree in music and backgrounds that encompass classical music, kirtan, theatre, singer/songwriter music and folk, Bhusundi is an harmonious mix of musical genres. 

With that mix of folk music, bhajans and mantra’s, Bhusundi wants to inspire, uplift, soothe and ignite the souls of their listeners. Their sound is acoustic, warm, intimate and authentic. 

Bertram and Tom sing about life, the magical journey of the soul; that it is meant to be experienced in its fullness, with wonders to be seen and lessons to be learned. That through love, compassion and faith the true riches of life can be found and experienced .

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Born in 1984, Trevor Grahl hails from the small town of Rankin, Ontario. His formal training began at McGill University, with teachers John Rea, Brian Cherney and Jean Lesage for composition, Sean Ferguson for electronic music, and Tom Plaunt for piano. Master’s studies took him to the University of California at San Diego, where he studied composition with Roger Reynolds, Philippe Manoury, Chinary Ung and Rand Steiger. On a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, he undertook additional studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, working with Richard Ayres.

Trevor’s music is characterised by referential layers, and often, the sound of other musics is an integral factor in his compositions. His works have been performed by groups across North America, Europe and China and by soloists including the trombonist Jörgen van Rijen and organists Hans-Ola Ericsson and Olivier Latry, and have appeared in many festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Gaudeamus Montréal. His double cello concerto Lightweight (based on Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being), composed for Asko|Schönberg and cellists Sebastiaan van Halsema and Lidy Blijdorp and premiered at the Cello Biennale Amsterdam in October 2022, was acclaimed by De Volkskrant for its dramaturgy, superb treatment of the soloists and sense of ‘joyful wonder’. Ephemerides, written for Quatuor Bozzini and Les Boréades de Montréal and inspired by Johannes Kepler’s Harmonice Mundi, was lauded for its daring invention and its cohesiveness with John Dowland’s Lachrimae Pavans, to which it serves as a companion piece. A recent collaboration with the baritone Thomas Hampson and Klangforum Wien, reimagining songs by Mahler and Charles Ives, led to performances in Vienna and Japan and received a five-star review in the Wiener Zeitung.

Trevor is a tireless advocate of the (hyper)organ, and in his function as the artistic assistant of Amsterdam’s Orgelpark has introduced countless composers and makers to its myriad creative possibilities. Trevor currently lives in Amsterdam and teaches composition at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague.

www.trevorgrahl.ca for more, and video links.

Sound healing • mantra meditation music • live kirtan sessions from ‘Give Peace a Chant’  ℗ 2025 sandhya records + © Tadasana Music

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