Fred Vogels (1954) At the age of 17 reported Fred Vogels joined the Royal Conservatory in The Hague for admission test for flute. He came right in the percussion area and was immediately sold for these instruments. Bought a few sticks and put them in the entrance exam, but for drums. Not because of merit on the drums, but by his remarkable ear for a percussionist, he was the Director of the Conservatory, Jan van Vlijmen adopted.

A year later he played his first concerts at the Residentie Orchestra ao under legendary conductor Willem van Otterloo.
Many concerts and tours would follow, including the major symphony orchestras as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Netherlands Radio orchestras.

In the same period was Fred Birds co-founder of the world famous percussion Den Haag. (Percussion Group The Hague). With this ensemble were also many tours and many world premieres played at numerous international festivals, radio and television at home and abroad.
Fred Birds also played in many ensembles such as Dutch Wind Ensemble, ASKO, Schönberg Ensemble, Netherlands Chamber Choir and many other ensembles and orchestras.

The first compositions were made in this period when Fred Vogels at the Hague Comédie two plays music wrote. The first still play together with fellow percussionist Wim Vos, then he went on alone.
The first ballet and choral compositions were written after he was moved to the east. Since he gave lessons and played mainly solo concerts (including the Royal Air Force Chapel) or duo concerts with pianist Benno Pier Weyer.
From some of the compositions for marimba solo in 1992, the Natural CD (sold out) across Europe given. In addition, the music has been heard on several documentaries for Dutch television and radio.

In 1994 Fred Bird exchanged his teaching and practice for a job as director of the music. This function he held until 2004. In those years, most compositions, including the now famous cycle Back to Normandy www.backtonormandy.org.
This music, inspired by D-day, says about 25 compositions in the story of war and peace. The euphoria of liberation, and especially remembering the soldiers, veterans, often with great sacrifices of their lives for Western civilization fought.

Www.backtonormandy.org The website has received millions of hits and music samples, there are many thousands of downloads.

Since March 2005 is attached to Fred Vogels publishing Molenaar, that the operations of Back to Normandy for band, brass band and brassband ban.

In addition, Fred Vogels published with Talpa Music for writing film scores television