Harry Bannink

Harry Bannink (10 April 1929, Enschede – 19 October 1999, Bosch en Duin) was a Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.

He started his musical career in the late fifties, when he joined a small dance-orchestra as pianist.

His compositions for the play "Het staat u vrij" (Delftsch Studenten Corps, 1958) were his first works for the theatre.

[2] Since 1973 he worked with Edwin Rutten on the weekly children's TV show De film van ome Willem (in which he appeared as head of the music-ensemble on every episode) and writer Willem Wilmink, with whom he wrote a lot of songs for the Dutch children's education programme Het Klokhuis.

He died, aged 70, of cardiac arrest and was buried at the Nieuwe Algemene Begraafplaats, Woudenbergseweg in Zeist.