2000. Since 2001 he has been teaching theory and improvisation at Codarts, University for the Arts, Rotterdam. From 2006 until 2008 he carried out research for Codarts World Music Research Group called "The Art of Doing Nothing". This research aimed at "improving mental and physical preconditions for musicianship by creating a good balance between performing, improvising and composing, with the help of analysis and research." For the instruction of students who participated in "The Art of Doing Nothing" the following text was used: "At the beginning there is silence, which allows a good performing attitude to develop, with a calm, concentrated mind, a relaxed body and steady breathing from the lower stomach. With this attitude improvisation results in, for example, a number of rhythmic patterns and melodies. Of these, the most interesting are remembered, recorded, or written down on paper. Gradually, after some hours, days, or even months, a certain structure will be developed, based on the composer's judgment of the right balance between repetition, variation and contrast. At the end, the various improvisations crystallize into a composition. This composition has to be learned by heart, because the discipline of memorizing the rhythmic patterns and melodies is necessary for developing the freedom from which new improvisations can be created. This procedure has a certain resemblance to improvising and composing in, for instance, classical Indian and Iranian music. Brief compositions may be the starting-point for numerous improvisations that can ultimately lead to new compositions. The process is somewhat similar to the continuous changes that take place in any living language." In 2006 and 2007 Willem Tanke lectured at symposia at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, organized by the ITC-Sangeet Research Academy. In 2008 he gave a lecture-recital at a symposium on Olivier Messiaen organized by the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (Belgium). Tanke issued his own improvisations and compositions on CD and SuperAudioCD between 1997 and 2007. From then onwards he published his music in particular on his YouTube channel. In 2018 he created a website called "Playing Keyboard Instruments in the 21st Century" in order to document his expertise in playing the pipe organ, the piano and synthesizers/keyboards. Discography As a primary artist - classical organist 1999 8 CD-box Olivier Messiaen Complete Organ Works 2006 Super Audio CD Max Reger - Variationen und Fuge fis-moll über ein Originalthema op. 73; Willem Tanke - Two Wind Fantasies 2007 Remastered