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Diederik Rijpstra’s WAMPUM Band Biographies 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