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Joost Lijbaart
Joost Lijbaart is a versatile drummer who uses a lot of different influences in his
playing.
Born in Amsterdam, he started drumming after his father (in navolging van)
when he was seven years old. After several years of classical percussion lessons
he went to the conservatory in Hilversum where he followed lessons from Cees
Kranenburg, Marcel Serierse and Gerhard Jeltes. He graduated in 1991. During
his study he went to Senegal (West-Africa) to take lessons in African percussion
with the legendary DuDu and Ali un D'Aya Rose.
Besides jazz, pop and improvised music he worked with modern classical music
and dance. In 1990 he performed with students from the National Ballet
Academy, played modern classical percussion music from Xenakis, Cage, Reich
and worked in different projects with Theo Loevendie and Louis Andriessen.
He formed with Yuri Honing the Yuri Honing Trio in 1989. With this group he did
concerts and tours in more than 40 countries all over the world. During a tour in
the Middle East in 1998 the trio was catched by the music of the Arab world. The
result was a bigger group called Orient Express with a Libanese singer and two
musicians from Iraq. This group did several tours in the Middle East and the
Netherlands.
In 1993 he won the 15th Europe Jazz Contest with the Nicolas Thys trio. For this
performance he received the "best drummer award".
In 1995 he joined the Michiel Borstlap sextet with Yuri Honing, Eric Vloeimans
and Benjamin Herman. With this group they released the double CD the sextet
live in 1996 and did several tours in the Netherlands. A tour in China in 1998
was filmed by Dutch documentairy maker Jop Pannekoek.
With Yuri Honing, Michiel Borstlap and Boudewijn Lucas he started in 1996 a
jazzrock group called White House.
From 1995 he works also with Agog a trio with guitar player Frank Wingold and
bassguitar player Mark Haanstra.With this group Lijbaart won in 2002 the Dutch
jazz competition and was awarded as best soloist from the contest by American
drummer Elvin Jones.
From 2002 Joost started his own quartet "group of friends" with Yuri Honing,
Benjamin Herman and Mats Eilertsen. For this group he is also very active as a
composer. He played on the North sea jazzfestival with this band in 2003. A DVD
of this concert was released in 2005.
In 2003 he also did a big project with Dutch choreographist Anouk van Dijk, a
ballet for four dancers and four musicians live on stage.
This year a new group was formed by Yuri Honing together with Joost Lijbaart,
Tony Overwater and Frank Moebus, a guitar player from Berlin who is well
known with his trio Der Rote Bereich. The double CD temptation of this band
called Yuri Honing wired paradise was released in January 2006.
Another new group is the duo with pianoplayer Wolfert Brederode. A CD of this
group will come out in Autumn 2006. With the duo they did a project with
dancer and choreographist Lonneke van Leth. Also they played music on the
spoken book Shadowchild from Dutch writer Frans Thomese.
www.joostlijbaart.com
Clemens van der Feen
After some occasional drumming on various items, Clemens (1980) began
singing and playing bassguitar in the band of his older brothers (the
Feenbrothers) at the age of eleven. Later on, he studied jazz and classical bass at
the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Detmold (Germany) and he lived in New
York for a while to take private lessons with Ben Street and John Pattituci, among
others. Clemens has won several jazz awards, including first prize at the
Capbreton Bass Encounter in 1999 (France). He also won Best New Talent
Award in the 2001 Dutch Jazz Competition and the Ruud Jacobs Award,
presented to him by Ruud Jacobs. Clemens co-leads a band called Narcissus, with
reedman Robin Verheyen and drummer Flin van Hemmen. Clemens is a member
of the Michael Moore Quartet, Harmen Fraanje Trio, Ensemble a l’improviste,
Joris Roelofs Trio featuring Jesse van Ruller, Rob van Bavel Trio, Jan Menu
Quartet, Franz von Chossy Trio, Paul Wiltgen Group and a regular with the Toots
Thielemans Quartet. Clemens also performed with Eric Vloeimans, Mark Murphy,
Nelson Veras, Karel Boehlee, Ari Hoenig, Seamus Blake, Benjamin Herman, Jazz
Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Deborah Brown, Juraj Stanik, Pete Philly &
Perquisite, Tineke Postma, Gino Vannelli, Rick Margitza, John Engels, Jasper
Blom, Bert van den Brink, Bill Carrothers and many more. Outside the jazz scene
he has performed with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Asko & Schönberg Ensemble and other chamber
groups. Being one of the few musicians to receive their masters degree with
honors- in both jazz and classical music, Clemens has already been playing all
over the world from jazz clubs in Paris and Tokyo to the Musikverein in Vienna
and Carnegie Hall in New York.
www.clemensvanderfeen.com
Dimitar Bodurov
Dimitar Bodurov is a Bulgarian jazz pianist / composer / producer, currently
resided in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Born on the 17th of September 1979 in Bulgaria, Dimitar played several
instruments- trombone, piano, saxophone, and drums. After graduating
trombone from the music high school in Varna (BG) he studied 2 years jazz piano
in the Conservatory in Sofia.
Since 2000, Dimitar has been working and studying in the Netherlands. In 2002
he obtained bachelor diploma; and in April 2004 he graduated with cum laude
his master degree in Rotterdam Conservatory in major jazz piano. In November
2006 he has graduated jazz composition and arranging in the same school.
Since 2004, Dimitar has been intensively integrating Bulgarian Folklore in his
own music.
As a pianist Dimitar has recorded several CD albums with Bodurov Trio, Solo
piano, Margriet Sjoerdsma and his latest duo project Neofobic. He has given
concerts in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg,
Ireland, Macedonia and Bulgaria. Together with Margriet Sjoerdsma he has been
touring in theatres, festival and clubs extensively in The Netherlands. And in the
2008/2009 season they were selected for the Jazz Impuls Double Concert Tour
(www.jazzimpuls.nl).
As a composer he has written several mostly chamber works for various
ensemble List or works:
In 2002, he was awarded 3 jazz prizes: Erasmus Jazz Competition, Rotterdam;
Leidse Stad Jazz Competition in Leiden, and Pim Jacobs Jazz Competition in
Rotterdam. In July 2005, he participated the Solo Piano Jazz Competition in
Montreux, Switzerland. And in January 2007 Dimitar won the Young Pianist
Foundation Jazz Competition 2007.
www.dimitarbodurov.com