Two of the main figures in improvised music from the Netherlands, both winners of the “Boy Edgar Prijs”, join forces with some of their most promising students. One evening with two different line-ups and two fully improvised sets of musical exploration!
19:45 – Doors
20:15 – Jeroen van Vliet (piano) // Helge Sorg (drums & electronics)
21:00 – Break
21:15 – Wolter Wierbos (trombone) // Nikos Charalambous (guitar) // Moritz Schlömer (drums)
Admission: 7€ // Students: 5€
—-NOTE: CASH ONLY!!—-
Jeroen van Vliet is known for his lyrical style and clear sound at the piano. He is a composer, pianist and keyboardplayer in a wide variety of groups. Throughout the years he worked with international artists as (a.o.) Bob Malach, Kenny Wheeler, John Zorn, Norma Winstone, Charly Mariano and Erkan Ogur, Jakob Bro. In 2014 Jeroen van Vliet was awarded the most important prize in the Netherlands for jazz and improvised music, The Boy Edgar Prijs. “Pianist Jeroen van Vliet is a master of nuance. His playing is enchanting, emotional and full of fantasy.”
– Armand Serpenti, Trouw
Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world’s leading trombone players. He has played throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Asia. Wierbos has many awards to his name, including the Podiumprijs for Jazz and Improvised music and the most important Dutch jazz award, the VPRO Boy Edgar Prize. Described as “a phenomenon, both a humorous importer of every style into his template-free, fat-backed sound, and a tireless spy in the house of brass”, he is equally at home using the classic trombone vocabulary or enthusiastically giving a round-trip tour of his horn, from buzzing mute mutations and grizzly blurts to purring multiphonics. He is also “a very good instant composer, good at keeping it moving and not taking it too seriously”.