Dominique Vleeshouwers, known professionally as DOMNIQ, is a virtuoso Dutch percussionist who combines solo performances with innovative projects and collaborations with dancers, artists, and writers, moving easily between classical, world and new music. Ceaselessly creative and curious, he has researched drumming traditions around the world and brought elements into his own performance and compositions.
As a soloist, DOMNIQ has performed concertos with ensembles including Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Asko||Schönberg ensemble, Netherlands Chamber and Philharmonic Orchestras, Netherlands Radio, South Netherlands, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Orchestre Metropolitain Montreal and Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic Orchestra. Last season he gave the world premiere of Daniel Wohl’s Uncanny Valley, which combines composition and field recordings with improvisation and AI software. He also performed Daníel Bjarnason’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and Peter Eötvös’ Speaking Drums in Canada and Spain, a work he returns to this season with São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

DOMNIQ serves as Artistic Director of TROMP international percussion competition, where he himself won first prize, press prize and the audience award at the 2014 – he was also the first percussionist to win the prestigious Dutch Music Prize, in 2020. He enjoys chamber music, collaborating with groups such as Pavel Haas Quartet, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble and Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and is a regular visitor to festivals, such as Schiermonnikoog and Floriade.

He is an Adams artist, his percussion instruments supported by the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund
and ‘Sichting Eigen Muziekinstrument’. He is committed to supporting young percussionists,
creating pedagogical videos and marimba method books ‘Time for 4’.