Sleutelstad 071 Concert
On July 16th, 2014 there was a live radio show in Leiden, Scheltema from Radio Sleutelstad Fm. There were a…
Article in NRC next
Yesterday my name appeared in the Nrc Next – a Dutch national Newspaper. It was an article by Anouk Vleugels…
Songwriting workshop @ Leiden University LAK
This summer I was teaching a summer workshop week for the University of Leiden at their cultural center (called LAK.)…
Concert with Lee Konitz & Florian Weber
Last January I organized a concert during the Leidse Jazz Week in the Hooglandse Kerk in the Netherlands, a big…
I gave Jimmy Page a high five :)
And then I was graduating Berklee College of Music. Broken elbow or not, commencement was there. Over 900 graduates from…
Joe Lovano played my composition!
With my private instructor Joanne Brackeen I’ve been working on phrasing this semester. And, how do instrumentalists and vocalists speak…
Sesame Street & Jazz
A couple of weeks ago I saw somebody post an amazing cute little movie on Facebook. It was Sesame street.…
Jazz Symposium
For this Amazing Symposium on jazz composition and the future of jazz Berklee invited a bunch of fantastic people: Geri…
My first drum lesson from Adam Cruz
Visiting artist Adam Cruz (drummer of Danilo Perez, McCoy Tyner, Tom Harrell, Chick Corea and many more) told us that…
David Gilmore and our Berklee Global Jazz Ensemble
We performed a couple of the songs we have been working on this semester with Dave Gilmore and here are…
Cheryl Bentyne
Its so amazing that Berklee invites all these wonderful musicians to give workshops and masterclasses 🙂 Today it was Cheryl…
Boxes
During one of the Global Jazz classes – Creativity in the arts – my perspective on music changed. Our teacher…