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Thomas Winther Andersen

Born: April 29, 1969

Originally from Norway, Thomas Winther Andersen now lives in Amsterdam. He toured in Europe and the USA with different musicians and bands. Among the musicians Thomas has worked with are: Håkon Storm , Jimmy Halperin, Lee Konitz, Sheila Jordan, Jasper Blom, Robert Rook, Michiel Borstlap and John Engels.

Thomas has composed many pieces for various jazz ensembles, music for large ensembles and chamber music. His compositions have been recorded for Norwegian and Dutch radio and many of them are available on CD recordings. Latest recordings are: 2019 Flotsam - 2012 Spinnaker - 2010 Patchwork - 2010 Tribute To Jochem - 2008 DVD Robert Rook trio Live in Amsterdam - 2006 Hymn For Fall - 2006 East of the Sun - 2004 Out From A Cool Storage.

Léah Kline

Born: June 29

Léah Kline...... .. "Leah Kline is listed as one of the Top Jazz Singers in the book 'The Jazz Singers - the Ultimate Guide', by LA jazz critic,Scott Yanow." Léah Kline is an accomplished stage performer who has enjoyed the privilege of performing in virtually every field of entertainment. Equally at ease before an audience of 2,000 as with one of 30, she has entertained audiences in Europe, Asia, and the US. As a singer, Léah is noted for her personal delivery and phrasing of songs paying great respect to the meaning of the lyrics. Particularly well received for her vivacious stage presence and clear melodic tones, her phrasing and interpretation has earned favorable attention from jazz fans

Luna Zegers

Luna´s musical path is like a journey. Born in the Netherlands in a musical family she listens to all sorts of music, but the jazz that her father listens to has her special attention. In 2010 she finishes her musical studies in jazz singing at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with the final grade "cum laude" (a 9). She travels several times to the United States where she takes singing lessons with Theo Bleckmann and composition lessons with Bill Markovitz (Manhattan School of Music). Furthermore her curiosity brings her to India, where she studies south Indian singing in Bangalore, which puts her subsequently on the path of flamenco song, being the ages old tradition of Indian music one of the roots of this Spanish musical style. Luna travels to Seville in Spain to emerge herself in flamenco and feels deeply moved by the raw expression of flamenco singing, in which she recognizes both deep sadness and intense joy of life. A couple of years later she moves to Barcelona (Spain) where she is accepted in the conservatory "Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña" (ESMUC) as the first foreigner ever in flamenco singing, studying with flamenco singer José Miguel Vizcaya "Chiqui de la Linea"

David Golek

I have always been first and foremost interested in exploring and finding my own musical identity. I guess it's something that keeps on changing and has it's own evolution along with life, as I keep on growing and developing musically. Having a classical and jazz music education, living in different parts of the world and speaking several languages, was a base to always want to widen my musical horizons & perspective on one side, and connect to my roots on the other, which in my case it's not a trivial question. Besides my own projects, I am involved with various groups, as a sideman as well

Wouter Hamel

Hamel’s songs are achingly catchy, or sometimes just aching. They often juxtapose deeply sad and even scathing lyrics with happy melodies that sweep you in. Imagine the musical landscape of a lush big band who would play with Frank Sinatra or Peggy Lee set against the emotional palette of Jeff Buckley...

Hamel is complex, seductive, clever. His songs reflect subtlety, anxiety, euphoria.

"But at the same time I would like to listen to PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, Peggy Lee, who is very sexy and strict and melancholic, but I also like Prince and Carmen McRae"

“By the time I was 17 and finished school I moved immediately out from my parents, not because I didn’t like them, but because I didn’t like the place they lived. I moved to the city of Utrecht.” He applied for a course in literature and journalism but left after the first year. “I was just interested in working for magazines like Vanity Fair and this course was very technical - how to write a news story.” He toyed with the idea of music school. He had guitar lessons and he was compulsively listening to Smashing Pumpkins. He wondered if music school would try to change the style before he had even developed it, but he was unhappy with journalism and decided to apply. “I wanted to make my voice bigger and learn theory so I could write songs. 120 people applied to music school and only four could be accepted, and I was, so that was quite an honour.”

Giorgos Daskalakis

Born in Athens in 1970, started playing guitar at the age of 15. After having taken guitar lessons and played in several bands - rock, blues, funk, jazz, with emphasis on composing hisown material, he followed, in 1994, a classical harmony course at Sychrono Odeio, Athens with Michalis Travlos. After his diploma in 1996, he studied at the same school classical guitar with Iakovos Kolanian and graduated in 2001. In 2003 he moved to Holland and studied jazz guitar at DJam and in 2004 entered the HKU conservatory with main guitar teacher Eef Albers, where he graduated in 2008. He has taken lessons and participated in clinics with : Kai von Rosenberg, Kai Eckhardt, Jesse van Ruller, Marcus Miller, Richard Smith and others. From September 2008 until May 2009 he hosted a jazz session in Amsterdam while working on his own music which is being presented since September 2009 under the name Broken Fingers.

Jazz DJ

Born: July 24, 1971

Lounge DJ Valentani weet met zijn muziek elke gewenst sfeer te creëren als lounge DJ. Zijn stijlvolle uitstraling, brede repertoire en meedenkende flexibiliteit maken hem tot een uitgelezen Lounge DJ voor exclusieve lounge evenementen. Lounge DJ Valentani onderscheidt zich van andere Lounge DJ's door de onnavolgbare wijze waarop hij zijn sets aanpast op het publiek, de ambiance, het thema of de doelstelling van het event, ongeacht of hij wordt ingezet als Lounge DJ op een trendy beurs, als Jazz DJ tijdens een diner of als Dance DJ voor een exclusief feest. Bel voor meer informatie met zijn artiestenbureau. http://www.lounge-jazz-dj.nl

Ramon Valle

Born: October 29, 1964

Cuban pianist Ramon Valle is a seasoned veteran with the explosive energy of a racehorse straight out of the gate. At this pivotal point in his career, Valle is on the runway and primed for TAKE OFF. Ramon’s stage presence is commanding, whether within the ranks of an orchestra or leading a trio. His performances and stage presence are charismatic, his music – intoxicating. No longer a diamond-in-the-rough, he is the perfectly cut gem. “Sometimes I feel like a troubadour,” he says, “because I tell stories, but stories without words.” Under the guidance and Management of world-renown Producer Suzi Reynolds, Valle’s career has been sculpted to not only showcase his versatility as a composer, arranger, and performer of his own works, but on his forthcoming release, also offers his own ‘take-offs’ on the great works of other artists, passionately interpreting the harmonies of Stevie Wonder, the poignant lyrics of Leonard Cohen and the spirit of John Coltrane. Valle was only seven when he began studying the piano at the Escuela Nacional de Arte in his hometown of Holguín, Cuba

Maarten Regtien

Born: March 6, 1963

Maarten Regtien (1963) is a Dutch (jazz-)pianist and (contemporary classic) composer. He started playing piano at the age of seven.

In 1975 he was introduced to the the Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer Alan Laurillard who introduced M. Regtien to improvisation.

During adolescence his musical taste started to grow towards 'anything new and unheard-of before.' This period included creating prepared piano's and tape experiments many years before he heard the music of John Cage or Brian Eno for the first time. Favorite music in the schoolgooing years was the early psychedelic music of Pink Floyd, The Beatles' White Album, free jazz, cool jazz, bebop, early Philip Glass minimal music and above all master pianists Keith Jarret and Jasper Van't Hoff.

Tineke de Jong

Tineke graduated at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1990, having studied with István Párkányi. The year before she took part in the autumn and spring courses at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Since then she has been working on a free-lance basis with the orchestras and ensembles listed below. In 2009 she released her first cd Midday Moon together with jazz musicians Albert van Veenendaal (piano), Hans Hasebos (marimba) and Alan Purves (percussion). “Albert and I started playing together regularly from February 2006 to explore a mix between two worlds; a classical violinist inspired by jazz standards, and an improvising pianist without style boundaries