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Dutch former gymnast, adult movie performer

Verona van de LeurPersonal informationFull nameVerona van de LeurCountry represented NetherlandsBorn (1985-12-27) 27 December 1985 (age 38)Gouda, The NetherlandsDisciplineWomen's artistic gymnasticsLevelSenior InternationalFormer coach(es)Boris OrlovRetired2008

Medal record

World Championships

2002 Debrecen

Floor Exercise

World Cup Final

2002 Stuttgart

Floor Exercise

2002 Stuttgart

Vault

2002 Stuttgart

Uneven Bars

European Championships

2002 Patras

Team

2002 Patras

All-Around

2002 Patras

Vault

2002 Patras

Balance Beam

2002 Patras

Floor Exercise

Verona van de Leur (born 27 December 1985) is a retired Dutch artistic gymnast and adult film performer. She was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 2002 after winning the all-around silver medal at that year's European championships and the silver medal on floor exercise at the world championships.

Van de Leur retired from gymnastics in 2008, after which she suffered personal difficulties, including a conviction for blackmail and a prison sentence. She began performing in adult webcam shows and then in adult films.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Van de Leur, born in Gouda, South Holland, the Netherlands, began with gymnastic at 5 years of age at gym T.O.O.S. Waddinxveen. At the age of 9, she started to train at Pro Patria in Zoetermeer.

Her first national appearance was at the Dutch National Championship in 2000. She was the junior Dutch all-around champion and won three event finals. One year later, in 2001, she was the Dutch all-around women's champion. With the Dutch team she surprising took the fifth place in the World Championship in Ghent. This performance made them the Dutch sports team of the year 2001.

2002 was Van de Leur's break-out year on the international stage. She won five medals at the European Championship in Patras, Greece, including silver medals in the team competition, the all-around (behind Svetlana Khorkina) and on beam.[3] She also won a bronze medal on floor exercise. Many believe[who?] Verona should have won gold on the floor exercise finals, due to a judging error that cost Van de Leur 1/10 of a point, dropping her to 3rd place. Van der Leur then won silver on the floor exercise at the World Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, and gold at the World Cup Finals on the same apparatus. She was elected 2002 Dutch Sportswoman of the Year and once again they were sports team of the year.

Van de Leur and Renske Endel were drawn as a reserve for the World Cup of 2003 in Anaheim and the Dutch team was not placed among the top twelve. Therefore, the gymnast didn't qualify for the Olympics in Athens. Then it came to a rift between her coach Frank and Van de Leur, leading her to move to The Hazenkamp in Nijmegen, the club of trainer Boris Orlov. In 2007, Van de Leur won the Dutch all-around champions for the fourth time. At the National Championships in Nijmegen she also won gold on beam and floor exercise and bronze on bars.

On 19 June 2008, Van de Leur publicly announced her retirement from gymnastics. Conflicts with the gymnastics federation and a lack of motivation also caused by a problematic situation at home, have reportedly played an important role in her decision.[4]

Legal problems[edit]

In early May 2011, Van de Leur was convicted of blackmailing an adulterous couple she had been following.[5] She served 72 days in prison.[1]

Adult performances[edit]

After being homeless for two years and in jail, Van de Leur saw a way out in late October 2011 with the adult film industry.[6] She decided to work as a webcam girl and then started her own adult website,[7] which includes adult films.[1] She only worked with her boyfriend and quit as an adult performer in November 2019.[8]

Competitive history[edit]

Competition

Total

Apparatus

All around

Team

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

Zoetermeer Toekomst Tournament 1995

6

Dutch national championship 1995

3

Dutch national championship 1996

8

5

5

Ecoair (international tournament, NL) 1997

4

1

Dutch national championship 1997

3

4

2

4

2

France – Netherlands 1998

8

1

Dutch national championship 1998

5

4

5

6

Berolina Cup 1998

7

2

Leverkusen Cup 1998

2

Ecoair (international tournament, NL) 1998

1

Clubteam Nationals 1998

1

Budapest Cup 1998

1

1

Sidijk Tournament 1999

2

Lugano Cup 1999

1

1

Como Cup 1999

2

1

Dutch national championship 1999

2

1

1

2

3

European Youth Olympic Days 1999

3

3

5

3

Berolina Cup 1999

3

1

Clubteams Nationals 1999

1

HGT (international tournament, NL) 1999

3

Honeywell Cup 1999

1

1

6

1

1

1

Youth Europeans 2000

11

3

3

4

Dutch National Championship 2000

1

1

1

1

3

Beronila Cup 2000

4

1

HGT (international tournament, NL) 2000

1

1

1

2

Clubteams Nationals 2000

1

Massilia Cup 2000

6

1

5

Parijs Bercy 2001

6

1

4

Cottbus 2001

4

6

Cottbus Winners Final 2001

1

Ploiesti 2001

6

2

1

3

Dutch National Championship semi final 2001

1

1

1

1

2

Dutch National Championship 2001

1

3

1

1

1

World Championship 2001

9

5

6

8

Massilia Cup 2001

5

3

4

1

3

HGT (international tournament,NL) 2001

1

2

1

1

1

Clubteam Nationals 2001

1

Glasgow 2001

2

2

2

1

USA Visa Cup 2002

3

3

6

2

2

Cottbus 2002

3

Cottbus – Winners Final 2002

2

European Championship 2002

2

2

2

3

3

Dutch National Championship semi final 2002

1

1

2

3

1

Li Ning Cup 2002

2

1

3

2

Dutch National Championship 2002

1

1

2

1

1

HGT (international tournament, NL) 2002

1

1

1

Massilia Cup 2002

4

3

1

2

World Championship 2002

7

2

DTB World Cup Final 2002

3

3

7

1

World Championship 2003

World Championship final 2004

7

Dutch National Championship 2005

3

European Championship 2007

9

Dutch National Championship 2007

1

3

1

1

European Championship 2008

8

9

In culture[edit]

Van de Leur is the subject of the song Verona van de Leur by Ellen ten Damme[9]

References[edit]

^ a b c "Het bizarre leven van Verona van de Leur". Helden Online (in Dutch). 24 October 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

^ "NRC - Nieuws, achtergronden en onderzoeksjournalistiek".

^ "Khorkina beats Dutch challenge for European hat-trick". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 28 June 2008.

^ "Turnen is leuk, maar zonder spelletjes".

^ "Van de Leur Pleads Guilty to Extortion'". 19 April 2011.

^ Matt Majendie; Don Riddell. "Verona van de Leur: The star gymnast who reinvented herself as a porn actress". CNN. Retrieved 2020-05-11.

^ "Verona van de Leur: 'Mannen zijn gebruiksvoorwerp'". De Telegraaf. 16 November 2011. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2011.

^ Matt Majendie; Don Riddell. "Verona van de Leur: The star gymnast who reinvented herself as a porn actress". CNN. Retrieved 2020-05-03.

^ "Ellen ten Damme - Verona van de Leur". 27 December 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 25 March 2019.

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Succeeded byLeontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel

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Skip to main contentSkip to navigationClose dialogue1/3Next imagePrevious imageToggle captionSkip to navigationPrint subscriptions Sign inSearch jobsSearchInternational editionInternational editionUK editionUS editionAustralia editionEurope editionThe Guardian - Back to homeThe GuardianNewsOpinionSportCultureLifestyleShowMoreShow MoreNewsView all NewsWorld newsUK newsClimate crisisUkraineEnvironmentScienceGlobal developmentFootballTechBusinessObituariesOpinionView all OpinionThe Guardian viewColumnistsCartoonsOpinion videosLettersSportView all SportFootballCricketRugby unionTennisCyclingF1GolfUS sportsCultureView all CultureBooksMusicTV & radioArt & designFilmGamesClassicalStageLifestyleView all LifestyleFashionFoodRecipesLove & sexHealth & fitnessHome & gardenWomenMenFamilyTravelMoneySearch input google-search SearchSupport usPrint subscriptionsInternational editionUK editionUS editionAustralia editionEurope editionSearch jobsHolidaysDigital ArchiveGuardian LicensingAbout UsThe Guardian appVideoPodcastsPicturesNewslettersToday's paperInside the GuardianThe ObserverGuardian WeeklyCrosswordsWordiplyCorrectionsFacebookTwitterSearch jobsHolidaysDigital ArchiveGuardian LicensingAbout UsFootballCricketRugby unionTennisCyclingF1GolfUS sports Verona van de Leur won five medals at the 2002 European championships and was named Dutch sportswoman of the year before retiring in 2008. Photograph: Marco OkhuizenView image in fullscreenVerona van de Leur won five medals at the 2002 European championships and was named Dutch sportswoman of the year before retiring in 2008. Photograph: Marco OkhuizenGymnastics This article is more than 3 years oldInterviewVerona van de Leur: 'When you have no food you do anything to survive'This article is more than 3 years oldTumaini CarayolDutchwoman was among Europe’s best gymnasts in 2002 but she became penniless and homeless after a bitter dispute with her family and coaches Sun 12 Apr 2020 17.00 BSTLast modified on Fri 17 Apr 2020 10.34 BSTShareWhen Verona van de Leur thinks back to the days at the turn of the century when she was one of the best gymnasts in the world, every syllable in her voice is laced with pride.She emerged in 2001 as the leader of an unlikely Dutch gymnastics boom in a sport dominated by post-Soviet giants. At the 2002 European championships she won five medals before snatching a silver on floor at the world championships; she was named Dutch sportswoman of the year. As the Netherlands wondered what the future held for its new sporting star, nobody could have imagined it would see her homeless, then in jail, before she picked up the pieces of her life in the pornography industry.Pride was an alien sensation to Van de Leur when she was competing. In her new autobiography, Simply Verona, she claims her parents put success over her wellbeing, pressuring her to succeed for their own gain. When she failed to finish on the podium, her mother would refuse to pick her up from the airport, forcing her to take long train rides home in tears.Anna Kournikova provided blueprint for success not guide for glamorous failure | Tumaini CarayolRead moreIn the gym, she alleges the training techniques of her coach, Frank Louter, were physically and mentally abusive. While gymnasts were forced to practise too many routines with too many injuries, she says, staff members rummaged through their bags and shamed them for the snacks they hid in lieu of proper meals.“It’s like in the circus with the animals,” she says of the coaching methods in a phone interview. “It’s doing it the hard way. That’s how you learn. You see the documentaries on the internet with crying kids? That’s how it went with us too. If you want to be flexible, it’s hurting. That’s with weight training, that’s with conditioning, that’s with the tricks. Sometimes you break something, sometimes not and you’re lucky.”Van de Leur was not lucky. By 2003, aged 17, her body was crumbling and her mind was vacant. Burnt out a year after her biggest successes, she found herself thinking about suicide. “I felt as if I was in a black hole,” she says. “Maybe the best thing was to quit but there was no option to quit. I tried it a few times but nobody let me.”View image in fullscreenVan de Leur performs on the beam in 2006, two years before her retirement. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/Bongarts/Getty ImagesIt would take another five years before Van de Leur found the nerve to relieve herself from that suffocating environment. What she did not expect on her retirement in 2008 was that parting from the sport would lead to a permanent familial rupture.After she began to explore the world beyond the confines of her gym with her boyfriend, Robbie, she returned home one day to find the locks had been changed and she was no longer allowed to enter the building. She later investigated her prior earnings and learned her father had spent her money on his own personal leisure. She eventually won two lawsuits against him, the judge forcing him to pay back a total of €62,000 (around £55,000).Van de Leur and her boyfriend were homeless for two years, sleeping in a car every night. Survival meant long afternoons collecting a few cents on the beach, eating complimentary food in supermarkets. Sometimes they would shoplift. Before helping with youth camps at gyms, she would douse herself in sample supermarket perfume. Although there was a romantic aspect to Van de Leur’s life in those days, finally free with her partner against the world, it was always tempered by the cold reality.“When you have no food and have to shoplift, it’s crossing a line, crossing your own borders that you never thought you would do,” she says. “But to survive, you would do anything that you need.”Within 24 hours everything was cancelled. But it’s hard to actually start over if society doesn’t accept youTheir time in the wilderness and out of view ended abruptly. Van de Leur was wandering around a park one day in 2010 when she noticed a man and woman having an affair. She took photos of the pair and then confronted the woman, eventually demanding €2,000. “I was really in the lowest state you can think of,” she says. “On the street with really nothing and when this happened, she asked me if I wanted money. I said, quick-thinking: ‘Yes.’ Because I needed it.”One night a few weeks later she was arrested by a large group of police. Initially detained for 72 days, Van de Leur was charged with blackmail and then also possession of child pornography after photos were allegedly found on a folder in her laptop. The latter charge fell apart in court after her lawyer argued several people had access to her computer.View image in fullscreenVan der Leur arrives at court with her lawyer in 2011. Photograph: Marcel Antonisse/EPAThe damage was done. A day before her trial, the press published details of the case and she watched every organisation she had links to sever ties, her life crumbling again before her eyes. “Within 24 hours everything was cancelled,” she said. “Then you have to start over. But it’s hard to actually start over if society doesn’t accept you.”In 2011 as she was figuring out the rest of her life, she was offered a contract to do webcam pornography videos. Van de Leur says she probably would not have agreed had her financial and professional earnings not been so damaged by the court case.Simone Biles is redefining brilliance in a sport that shamefully failed her | Marina HydeRead more“It took me a couple of weeks to think about because this one was for the public. So I talked with my boyfriend about the decision and he said: ‘Whatever you feel,’ because I’m the one sitting there and they are going to use my name … It was such a huge amount [of money]. For me, it was an opportunity to make something from my life, to build something.”After her step into the adult entertainment world, she decided to create her own company and website, participating in adult films while hiring other models for pornographic movies. In a torrid industry, she resolved to film only with her boyfriend, to choose every bit of work for herself and to pull the plug whenever she felt uncomfortable. Her job required her also to chat daily with fans.“It’s hard to explain because sometimes you don’t know their face, their name, and for others you know everything. You know their wife’s name, their children, where they work, where they live. Depending on how much the fan wants to share.”As a gymnast her life was entirely dictated by the whims of the surrounding adults but she saw this as an opportunity to make money and be autonomous through the company she founded and the people she interacted with.At the end of 2019, she stepped away from the adult film business. Now 34, her gaze has shifted, altered by the Me Too movement colliding with the Larry Nassar case and bringing to light the working conditions of gymnasts.“Every time you hear something, there’s still a new case or someone who doesn’t speak up,” she says. “Whenever it’s possible, I’m working with [sports] federations, what they can do better to make the environment just a little safer for the kids … If I can be a person [they trust] and they want to talk to me, that’s the thing that I want to do. Be the person for them.”In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. 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The simple act of cartwheeling at the age of five begins Verona van de Leur’s story, a childhood passion which in turn led to a desire to be an Olympic gymnast.

In the intervening three decades, she became a Dutch national treasure known for her sporting prowess. 

But injury curtailed her career and her life spiraled out of control. Locked out of the family home, she says she spent two years homeless and endured a fractious legal battle with her father.

Things got even worse when she was imprisoned, convicted of blackmail in 2011. She says she came within seconds of stepping in front of a train to end her life.

She says redemption came working as a porn actress and, now at the age of 34, Van de Leur has penned her autobiography, laying out details of her life.

She is adamant there are no regrets. Of her foray into the adult movie industry, which she says she stopped last year, Van de Leur told CNN Sport’s Don Riddell: “Actually no regrets because I was living on the streets … I would still do it, so I don’t have any regrets, not the way I did it, no.”

Engrossed by watching gymnastics at the 1996 Olympics, she set her heart on competing at the Games. The medals followed, with silver both at the World and European Championships. She was named Dutch sportswoman of the year in 2002 just before turning 17.

Verona van de Leur was the leading female gymnast in the Netherlands, and in 2002 was Dutch sportswoman of the year.

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During her career, she shone at both world and European level.

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But when her career ended, she fell out with her family and was homeless for two years living in her car.

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She then reinvented herself as a webcam model and then porn star.

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She performed on screen with her boyfriend Robbie, who has been her partner for the last 13 years.

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Van de Leur has laid out her tumultuous life in great detail in her new autobiography, insisting she has no regrets.

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She says that despite the family fallout and contemplating suicide, she had found happiness in life.

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Lisa Deen, who works as a freelance sports journalist specializing in gymnastics, describes Van de Leur as “one of the greatest gymnasts in the Netherlands’ history.”

READ: How gymnastic deaths sparked change

‘Left with a black hole’

To start with, Van de Leur loved the life of being a gymnast.

“It’s quite strange but it’s also fun of course – I mean you’re a teenager and everybody’s watching you in a good way, asking for an autograph, so it feels special, of course,” she says.

“Your parents are proud, your family’s proud, everybody’s talking positive about you. But you have all the pressures coming and you have to succeed at the next competition again and again.”

Trying to pinpoint when things began to unravel is hard for Van de Leur. 

Van de Leur quit gymnastics in her early 20s.

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At times, she thinks it could have been as early as the age of nine when she took up gymnastics competitively.

What’s not in doubt is that the downward spiral started in 2003 following an injury. Suddenly, Van de Leur says, she had nothing.

“If I look back, it’s just a sport, a hobby you’re good at,” she says. “But at the time it was printed in my head, ‘This is what you are. You are only a gymnast’. And for me there was no life besides it … For the people around me, I was only that robot, only the gymnast and I didn’t have friends.

“So, if your sport is falling apart, there’s nothing left so you have this black hole.”

Van de Leur says her falling out of love with gymnastics reached its peak in 2008 when she announced to the media at the European Championships that she was walking away from the sport that had defined her life. She was just 22.

Her first reaction was happiness it was finally over, and for once she felt like she was taking control of her own life. However, when she told her parents, she says they remonstrated with her, concerned Van de Leur was turning her back on potential earnings.

In her opinion, their attitude was that “money was more important than their own daughter.” Around that time, she returned to the family home only to discover she was no longer welcome, she says.

READ: A gymnastics routine inspired by Beyoncé

‘Locked out of home’

CNN tried to contact Van de Leur’s father for comment via email, phone and social media but proved unsuccessful, as well as her sister.  

“I tried the locks, I had a key as I was living there and you try it and it’s not working,” Van de Leur recalled. “You first think, well, it must be a mistake or I’ll just call home. They didn’t answer, they didn’t open and then I realized I wasn’t welcome anymore.”

So, she slept in her car with her boyfriend that night, first annoyed and then heartbroken that her family had rejected her. She says, “The last time I saw them was in court.” 

A court summary of the case says Van de Leur argued that in 2008, her father, who acted as her agent, “withdrew an amount of €9,000 ($9768) from the claimant’s payment account without the consent or knowledge of the claimant, of which only part of the claimant was repaid or related to costs incurred on behalf of the claimant.”

She added: “I’ve asked for the accounting and where’s my sponsorship money and all the money I get from gymnastics when I won and it was just all gone. The only thing was to get justice to go to court so that’s what I did.”

An attorney listed as Van de Leur’s father’s lawyer at the time declined to comment to CNN citing code of conduct.

The court summary states that Van de Leur’s father argued that he had “incurred costs including moving the claimant’s personal property out of her trainer’s home, buying gifts for the trainer and her family, replacing locks in the defendant’s home and staying with family related to potential threats.”

However, in February 2009, a court of The Hague ordered her father to pay her €1,355.89 ($1471) as well as allow Van de Leur to return to his home to retrieve a number of items: a sunbed, tracksuits and leotards, and various presents, and to stop running a website in her name.

Reflecting on facing her parents in the court room, Van de Leur said: “From the beginning, I know I lost everything and money doesn’t get parents back.”

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‘I wasn’t used to showing myself nude’

For two years after her family fallout, she says she was homeless. During that time, Van de Leur was arrested for trying to blackmail a couple having an extra marital affair – she was charged with extortion – which resulted in her spending 72 days in prison.

“In that time, being homeless, I didn’t care anymore how I got money for food,” she said.

“But even in that worst situation I know it was not my right to determine the law and, yes, I regret that I didn’t choose or find another option in that period of time. Maybe it’s good for me that I have been punished for 72 days to realize I was wrong, and I was.”  

When out of jail, the adult industry – first as a webcam model and then making videos with her boyfriend – seemed a good way out. The couple is still together 13 years on.

“I saw it as a chance,” said Van de Leur. “It was a big contract so I could build something, starting my business. I was starting as a webcam model. It wasn’t physical contact, so computer screen was okay. I wasn’t used to showing myself nude, of course.”

The reaction in Holland to her dramatic career change, she says, was mixed, but having been homeless and in jail, Van de Leur saw her new job as offering her a fresh start.

“I didn’t say at the time I lived on the street or where I was coming from but for me this was actually a step up and they only saw that I was going down,” she said. “So, I kept it in my mind, it’s my life, it’s what I like to do and I always saw it as work.”

Van de Leur also made a return to the gymnastics world at the World Championships in Stuttgart last year where she worked as an analyst for the Dutch media, but she returned home prematurely before the event had finished.

As she reflects on the various twists and turns of her life, Van de Leur says she wishes she had been smarter at a younger age when her gymnastics career was taking off.

Above all these days she wants to embrace life – having come so close to ending it all.

It was amid the dispute with her family, that Van de Leur says she went to a railway line to kill herself.

“I went to the train and I was just counting from 10 to zero and I didn’t jump,” she recalled. “I don’t know why but it was really the moment that it could be all over.

“I was thinking about my family that I lost, I was living on the street, I had nothing, nothing to eat, no money in my hands, so I had nothing to live for.

“That was what I was thinking at that moment but, when the train just passed, I don’t know something snapped maybe. I still don’t know why I didn’t jump,  I was crying and then just walked away.”

Now, Van de Leur says that moment gives her strength and that she’s learned to “enjoy every moment of her life.”

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Prof. dr. W. (Walter) van de Leur

Jazz and Improvised Music (chair in co-operation with the Amsterdam School of the Arts / Conservatorium van Amsterdam)

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Capaciteitsgroep Muziekwetenschap

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Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music

Dr Walter van de Leur is the first Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on behalf of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA). He co-founded the CvA’s Master’s research programme, serves as research coordinator and teaches various jazz historiography electives.

Van de Leur’s work focuses on jazz reception history and historiography and is deeply involved with interdisciplinary and practice-based research.

He is an internationally recognized expert on the music of Duke Ellington and his collaborator Billy Strayhorn. He is the author of Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Oxford UP 2002; winner of the Irving Lowens Book Award for Distinguished Scholarship in American Music). He is the author of a monograph titled Jazz and Death: Rituals and Representations (Routledge 2023) and the founding editor of the forthcoming five-volume Oxford History of Jazz in Europe.

His research has yielded contributions to several other volumes, such as Politics and Cultures of Liberation (Brill), Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality (Routledge), The Routledge Companion to New Jazz Studies, Current Research in Jazz, and the International Journal of Heritage Studies, next to work for various non-academic publications.

He contributed works on Strayhorn and Ellington to The Duke Ellington Studies Anthology (Cambridge UP), Musicians and Their Audiences (Ashgate), Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life (Agate), The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, The Grove Dictionary of American Music (Oxford UP), The International Dictionary of Black Composers (U. of Chicago Press), and the Musical Quarterly. As a member of the editorial board of Jazz Perspectives, he guest-edited the Special Issue on Duke Ellington. 

Van de Leur has led the Dutch work packages for two European-funded research projects: Rhythm Changes: Jazz and National Identity and CHIME (Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals). He is a co-applicant and team member for A New Generation of Music Professionals, an education research project (Comenius Leadership Fellow Grant) funded by The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO). The project seeks to develop a cross-institutional BA-MA program (Academy for Musicology and Musicianship Amsterdam/Utrecht; AMMA/AMMU) involving CvA, UvA, Utrecht University, and the Utrecht Conservatory (HKU).

He has directed four academic jazz conferences for Rhythm Changes (the largest in the field), the CHIME Music, Festivals, Heritage Conference in Siena (Italy), and co-led the 22nd International Duke Ellington Conference in Amsterdam.

Van de Leur was the researcher and artistic co-director for six ground-breaking recording projects that evolved around newly discovered jazz works of Strayhorn, Mary Lou Williams, Gil Evans, and others (issued by Challenge Records).

Publications

Books

The [Oxford] History of Jazz in Europe. Founding editor. Five-Volume Edited Set: Vol. 1, Arrival and Early Reception, 1918–40; Vol. 2, The Second World War, 1940–45; Vol. 3, Conflicting Ideologies and Agendas, 1945–65; Vol. 4, New European Idioms, 1965–90; Vol. 5, Globalization and Fusions, 1990–2010 (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations. Transnational Studies in Jazz Series (New York: Routledge, 2023).

NL Real Book, Vol. 1. Founding editor. (Amsterdam: Music Centre Netherlands, 2011).

Jazz behind the dikes: Vijfentachtig jaar schrijven over jazz in Nederland. Oratiereeks (Amsterdam University Press, 2009).

Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn . New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Winner of the  2003 Irving Lowens Book Award (Society of American Music) and the  2003 Award for Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music (Association of Recorded Sound Collections).

Chapters in Books

“Swan Songs: Jazz, Death and Famous Last Concerts.” Book chapter, in The Routledge Companion to New Jazz Studies, edited by Tony Whyton, Nick Gebhardt, and Nicole Rustin, 55–64 (London: Routledge, 2018).

“The Reception and Development of Jazz in the Netherlands (1945–1970s).” Book chapter, in Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy, edited by Hans Bak, Frank Mehring, and Mathilde Roza, 177–91. Radboud Studies in Humanities, vol. 7 (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

“Swinging in Heaven, Boppin’ in Hell: Jazz and Death.” Book chapter, in Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality, edited by Helen Dell and Helen Hickey, 76–89 (London: Routledge, 2017).

“‘People Wrap Their Lunches in Them’: Duke Ellington and His Written Music Manuscripts.” Book chapter, in Duke Ellington Studies Anthology, edited by John Howland, 157–76 (New York: Cambridge UP, 2017).

“‘Moved to the Point Where She Could No Longer Contain Herself’: Ellington and Audience Interaction at the Newport Jazz Festival.” Invited Afterword, in Musicians and their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation, edited by Ioannis Tsioulakis and Elina Hytönen-Ng, 195–8 (Burlington VT: Ashgate Press, 2016).

“Take the ‘A’ Train” and 37 vignettes on Billy Strayhorn compositions, in Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life, edited by Alyce Claerbout and David Schlesinger (Chicago: Agate Publishing, 2015).

“‘Seldom Seen, But Always Heard’: Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.” Book chapter, in The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, edited by Ed Green, 186–96 (New York: Cambridge UP, 2014).

“Evans, Gil”; “Raeburn, Boyd”; “Strayhorn, William Thomas ‘Billy’”; “Thornhill, Claude.” In The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford UP, 2013).

"Scores of Scores: Einige Anmerkungen zu Manuskripten der Billy Strayhorn und Duke Ellington Sammlungen in den USA."In Wolfram Knauer (ed.), Duke Ellington und die Folgen, Darmstadt: Jazz-Institut Darmstadt and Wolke Verlag, 2000.

"Billy Strayhorn." In The International Dictionary of Black Composers , Vol. 2. Chicago: Columbia College of Chicago Press, 1999.

Articles

“‘Building on the Power of the Past’: Discourses Surrounding the North Sea Jazz and Punda Jazz Festivals in Curaçao.” (With Bethanie Aggett). International Journal of Heritage Studies Special Issue: Cultural Heritage & Improvised Music in European Festivals (2019).

“CHIME Travelling Exhibition: A History of Dutch Jazz Festivals in Thirty-Some Objects.” Exhibition Guide. With Bethany Aggett and Loes Rusch. (Amsterdam: CHIME, 2017)

“Curaçao North Sea Jazz Festival: Marketing and Branding Jazz Heritage.” (With Bethanie Aggett). In Festivals as Integrative Sites: Valuing Tangible and Intangible Heritage for Sustainable Development, edited by Beth Perry, Laura Ager, and Rike Sitas, 12–13 (University of Sheffield, 2016).

“Swan Songs: Jazz, Death, and Famous Last Concerts.” Conference Proceedings, in Jazz Cosmopolitanism, edited by Hui Yu, 75–84 (Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2016). 

“Your Music Has Flung the Story of ‘Hot Harlem’ to the Four Corners of the Earth!: Race and Narrative in Black, Brown and Beige.” (With Prof. Lisa Barg, McGill University). Musical Quarterly. (Fall-Winter 2013) 96 (3-4): 426-458.

“Jazzophielen versus Muziekkwakzalvers: De Jazzwereld 1931-1940.” Jazz Bulletin 89 (Dec. 2013): 44-51. (Revised reprint from Liber Plurium Vocum voor Rokus de Groot, 2012. In Dutch).

“Clichémachines versus Improvisatoren: Jazzwereld 1967-1973." Jazz Bulletin 82 ( March 2012; article is in Dutch).

“‘Zuivere Jazz’ and ‘Muziekkwakzalvers’: De Jazzwereld 1931-1940.” Liber Plurium Vocum voor Rokus de Groot. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 128-38. (In Dutch.) Originally appeared as “‘Pure Jazz’ and ‘Charlatanry’: A History of De Jazzwereld Magazine, 1931-1940.” Dan Morgenstern Festschrift, 2012.

“‘Pure Jazz' and 'Charlatanry': A History of De Jazzwereld Magazine, 1931-1940." Dan Morgenstern Commemorative Festschrift. Current Research in Jazz (www.crj-online.org), Vol. 4. (2012).

Introduction as Guest Editor to Jazz Perspectives Thematic Issue on Duke Ellington. Jazz Perspectives 6:1-2, 1-3 (2012).

“Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, The River and Chief Natoma." DEMS Bulletin, Vol. 32 (August-November 2010) www.depanorama.net/dems.

“A Jungle at Duke's Place? Titles, Credits, and the Secondary Literature." Blue Light (Winter 2003): 14-15.

 “The 'American Impressionists' and the 'Birth of the Cool'." Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie (February 2001): 18-26.

“A Warehouse Full of Paper: The Duke Ellington Collection." Jazz-Nu (March 1995): 14-15.

Invited reviews

 "Swingende geschiedschrijving: Mythen van de jazzgeschiedenis ontzenuwd." Academische Boekengids (Amsterdam University Press, May 2010): 21-23.

 "The Oxford Companion to Jaz z." Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie (February 2003): 83-85.

"Annual Review of Jazz Studies." Jazz Research News (February 2001): 56-57.

Publications

refereed (16)

academic (6)

professional (1)

popular scientific (5)

conference contributions (3)

recognitions (8)

2023

van de Leur, W. (2023). Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations. (Transnational studies in jazz). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315148540

2020

Aggett, B. G., & Van De Leur, W. (2020). ‘Building on the Power of the Past’: Discourses Surrounding the North Sea Jazz and Punda Jazz Festivals in Curaçao. IJHS : International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(6), 589-602. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1639072 [details]Download

2019

van de Leur, W. (2019). Swan Songs: Jazz, Death and Famous Last Concerts. In N. Gebhardt, N. Rustin-Paschal, & T. Whyton (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (pp. 55-64). (Routledge Music Companions). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315315805-6 [details]

2018

van de Leur, W. (2018). The Reception and Development of Jazz in the Netherlands (1945–1970s). In H. Bak, F. Mehring, & M. Roza (Eds.), Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy (pp. 177–191). (Radboud Studies in Humanities; Vol. 7). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004292017_010 [details]Download

2017

van de Leur, W. (2017). "People Wrap Their Lunches in Them": Duke Ellington and His Written Music Manuscripts. In J. Howland (Ed.), Duke Ellington studies (pp. 157-176). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139028226.006 [details]

van de Leur, W. (2017). Swinging in Heaven, Boppin’ in Hell: Jazz and Death. In H. Dell, & H. M. Hickey (Eds.), Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality (pp. 76-89). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315302119-6 [details]

2015

van de Leur, W. (2015). Swan Songs: Jazz, Death and Famous Last Concerts. In H. Yu (Ed.), The Eight International Conference of the Society for Oriental Music & International Symposium on Jazz Cosmopolitanism from East to West (pp. 97-103). College of Arts, Ningbo University. [details]

2014

van de Leur, W. (2014). "Seldom Seen, But Always Heard": Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. In E. Green (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington (pp. 186-196). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139021357.017 [details]

van de Leur, W. (2014). Raeburn, Boyd. In C. H. Garrett (Ed.), The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition New York: Oxford University Press.

van de Leur, W. (2014). Thornhill, Claude. In C. H. Garrett (Ed.), The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition New York: Oxford University Press.

2013

Barg, L., & van de Leur, W. (2013). "Your Music Has Flung the Story of ‘Hot Harlem’ to the Four Corners of the Earth!": Race and Narrative in Black, Brown and Beige. The Musical Quarterly, 96(3-4), 426-458. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdt009 [details]Download

van de Leur, W. (2013). Evans, Gil [Green, Ian Ernest Gilmore]. In C. H. Garrett (Ed.), The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed., Vol. 3). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195314281.001.0001

van de Leur, W. (2013). Strayhorn, Billy [William Thomas; Swee’ Pea]. In C. H. Garrett (Ed.), The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed., Vol. 8). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195314281.001.0001

2012

van de Leur, W. (2012). Jazz Perspectives Ellington Special Issue: Introduction. Jazz Perspectives, 6(1-2), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17494060.2012.749581 [details]

van de Leur, W. (2012). ’Pure jazz’ and ‘charlatanry’: a history of De Jazzwereld Magazine, 1931-1940. Current Research in Jazz, 4. http://www.crj-online.org/v4/CRJ-Jazzwereld.php [details]Download

1999

van de Leur, W. (1999). Billy Strayhorn. In S. A. Floyd Jr. (Ed.), The International Dictionary of Black Composers, Vol. 2 (pp. 1077-1085). Columbia College of Chicago Press.

2016

van de Leur, W. (2016). Afterword: ‘Moved to the Point Where She Could no Longer Contain Herself’: Ellington and Audience Interaction at the Newport Jazz Festival. In I. Tsioulakis, & E. Hytönen-Ng (Eds.), Musicians and their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation (pp. 195-198). Routledge. [details]

2011

van de Leur, W. (2011). NL real book: Vol.1: B♭. Amsterdam: Music Center The Netherlands. [details]

van de Leur, W. (2011). NL real book: Vol.1: C. Amsterdam: Music Center The Netherlands. [details]

van de Leur, W. (2011). NL real book: Vol.1: E♭. Amsterdam: Music Center The Netherlands. [details]

2010

van de Leur, W. (2010). Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, 'The river' and 'Chief Natoma'. The international DEMS Bulletin, 10(2), 5. http://www.depanorama.net/dems/102b.htm [details]

2000

van de Leur, W. (2000). Scores of Scores: Einige Anmerkungen zu Manuskripten der Billy Strayhorn und Duke Ellington Sammlungen in den USA. In W. Knauer (Ed.), Duke Ellington und die Folgen (pp. 225-247). (Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung,). Darmstadt: Wolke Verlag.

2012

van de Leur, W. (2012). Zuivere jazz en muziekkwakzalvers: "De Jazzwereld" 1931-1940. In S. van Maas, C. Hulshof, & P. Oldenhave (Eds.), Liber plurium vocum voor Rokus de Groot: ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid als hoogleraar in de Muziekwetenschap aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1 juli 2012 (pp. 128-138). Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]

2016

van de Leur, W. (2016). Van Stan Kenton tot Pat Boone: Rhythme 1949-1961. Jazz Bulletin, 100, 36-45.

2015

van de Leur, W. (2015). "Take the ‘A’ Train" and 40 vignettes on Billy Strayhorn compositions. In A. Claerbout, & D. Schlesinger (Eds.), Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life Chicago: Agate Publishing.

2013

van de Leur, W. (2013). Jazzophielen versus Muziekkwakzalvers: De Jazzwereld 1931-1940. Jazz Bulletin, 89, 44-51.

2012

van de Leur, W. (2012). Clichémachines versus Improvisatoren: Jazzwereld 1967-1973. Jazz Bulletin, 82, 30-37.

2010

van de Leur, W. (2010). Swingende geschiedschrijving: mythen van de jazzgeschiedenis ontzenuwd. De Academische Boekengids, 80, 21-23. http://www.academischeboekengids.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_artikel&id=943 [details]Download

2022

van de Leur, W. (2022). Nine Naked Muses: Jazz Memorials.

2018

van de Leur, W. (2018). Blowing Gabriel Out of the Clouds: Jazz and the Afterlife. Paper presented at Elvis lives in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

van de Leur, W. (2018). ‘People Wrap Their Lunches in Them’: Duke Ellington and his Written Music Manuscripts . Paper presented at Material Cultures of Music Notation Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Others

van de Leur, W. (organiser) (25-8-2022 - 28-8-2022). Seventh Rhythm Changes Conference, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

Titus, B. (participant), Ballantine, C. (participant), Fry, A. (participant) & van de Leur, W. (organiser) (1-9-2017). Fifth Rhythm Changes Conference, Amsterdam. Attendant and discussant at Rhythm Changes Conference (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.rhythmchanges.net/

van de Leur, W. (organiser) (31-8-2017 - 3-9-2017). Fifth Rhythm Changes Conference, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.rhythmchanges.net/conference/

van de Leur, W. (organiser) (24-5-2017 - 28-5-2017). CHIME Conference, Siena. Keynote Speaker: Professor Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Queensland, AustraliaIn a world where notions of culture are becoming increasingly (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

van de Leur, W. (member of programme committee) (14-4-2016 - 17-4-2016). Fourth Rhythm Changes Conference, Birmingham (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

van de Leur, W. (organiser) (4-9-2014 - 7-9-2014). Third Rhythm Changes Conference, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.rhythmchanges.net/2014-conference/

van de Leur, W. (member of programme committee) (11-4-2013 - 13-12-2013). Second Rhythm Changes Conference, Salford (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

van de Leur, W. (organiser) (2-9-2011 - 4-9-2011). Rhythm Changes Conference (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://www.ahk.nl/en/conservatorium/news/2011/07/12/rhythm-changes-jazz-and-national-identities-conference-2011/

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