André Rieu Ambassador HFL Cancer Research Center

André Rieu Ambassador of HFL Cancer Research Foundation

André Rieu will be named Ambassador of the HFL (Health Foundation Limburg) Cancer Research Foundation. It was announced Friday at the opening of the Cancer Center in Maastricht. The foundation tries to raise funds for cancer research and was established earlier this year by the Academic Hospital Maastricht, Limburg Health Foundation and the Dutch Cancer Society.

André Rieu was not present at the opening of the cancer foundation. The violinist currently is touring in Australia and spoke to those present via a video message.

To illustrate his involvement with the HFL Cancer Research Foundation, André Rieu has donated a painting by his son Marc Rieu. The painting, "The Circle of Life", will be hanging in the greeting center of the Maastricht UMC Oncology Center. André Rieu: "It is a painting that has made a deep impression on me. It portrays the circle of life. You can continue to look at it. It has no beginning and no end. You only see a beautiful, colorful depth.

Thank you John for the translation! We hear so much of André the musician, but little of André the man. As you so well said, "this is a very nice gesture and definitely shows you what a guy our André really is. He is a man for the people."