Annette Kruisbrink (born 1958, The Netherlands) studied the guitar with Pieter van der Staak at the Conservatoire of Music in Zwolle. She attended masterclasses conducted by Leo Brouwer, John Mills, Toyohiko Satoh and many others. She subsequently trained herself to play the flamenco guitar and the vihuela. She studied composition with Alex Manassen and attended composition classes run by a.o. Nigel Osborne and Claudio Prieto.

She has composed over 200 compositions, which have been published by Les Productions d'OZ, Canada, and various European publishing houses. A winner of international prizes and awards for her compositions, she has been commissioned by a.o. the NCRV (Dutch radio and television), Huismuziek, Guitar Festival Zwolle, Theatre Odeon Zwolle, Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst and Novam.

Annette Kruisbrink gives recitals and masterclasses in guitar/composition in a.o. The Netherlands, Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Luxemburg, Italy, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland. With the Belgian guitarist Arlette Ruelens she forms The Anido Guitar Duo.ith the Dutch soprano Franka van Essen she forms the duo Kruisbrink & Van Essen. She currently teaches guitar at the Anido Guitar School. From 2000-2010 she taught contemporary music and ethno music at the Conservatoire of Music in Zwolle, Holland.

Arlette Ruelens is a Belgian guitarist and painter living in the Netherlands. When she was seven years old, she started having lessons on the banjo. Later, she learned to play cello and piano. She studied classical guitar at the Conservatory of Music in Zwolle.

Arletter plays many concerts in various ensembles, among others with Anette Krusibrink, with whom she formed the Anido Guitar Duo. She is an enthusiastic and devoted guitar teacher at various music schools. Besides being a guitarist, she is active as a painter.

Bevroren Tranen is an adaptation of Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs composed for voice and piano, with poems by Wilhelm Müller. In this shortened version for two guitars and spoken voice, the poems have been freely translated into Dutch. The result is an accessible and musically inviting version, while keeping Schubert’s original melodies and accompaniments clearly recognizable throughout all 24 movements.