The days before… After a long trip to the Netherlands, we arrived at Schiphol Amsterdam. Although it is always nice to spend some time in my home country and see friends and family, our trip had a different purpose this time. … Continue reading
For this series of bloggy interviews I’ve shared questions with young artists and musicians living in New York. This time: vocalist and composer Song Yi Jeon. I’ve met her first while studying at Berklee College of music when we were … Continue reading
For this series of bloggy interviews I’ve shared questions with young artists and musicians living in New York. This time: Bass player and composer Jesse Byrom-Carter. In addition to the questions, we met up and played a few songs in … Continue reading
Since a year Im member of the Netherland America Foundation Alumni Committee and this month – together with Annemarie Hagenaars – I organized a lecture about Music Innovation at the Intersection of Business, Art and Academia. Three exciting speakers offer perspectives on … Continue reading
Let me tell you a little bit about my collaboration with Robin Koerts. You might have seen some clips or pics on the internet of us performing at various shows, but it’s pretty hard to get what we actually do … Continue reading
Coming back from Zutphen to New York felt a bit like coming home. But no time to sit down and relax, because we had another ChocoJazz show coming up! Since this year is the year of De Stijl – the art … Continue reading
This was something very special. There is a Youtube channel that’s called BalconyTV and the concept of the show is to let musicians play on a balcony or rooftop or anything high above the city. So I got a call … Continue reading
Rockwood Sunday afternoon March 19th ’17 Vadim Neselovskyi and I had an amazing gig in Rockwood, and we did a live stream via Facebook. Watch it here! The next one in Rockwood is April 16th, 3pm… see you there?
While traveling between New York City and the Netherlands, Pastry Chef ChocoTed and Jazz singer Vivienne Aerts will invite you in a beautiful venue and present amazing new dishes, tickling flavors and swinging music. An event full of Jazz and … Continue reading
So we wanted to look like a very unconventional chef and singer…. so we turned ourselves into Rockstars! With the fantastic make-up skills by Anja Mendillo and the view and photographic eye of Trudy Giordano we made this glam pictures! … Continue reading