Rotterdam, Rhythm-dam: heartbeat of many musical worlds
As they have done many times before, inJazz partner World Music Forum NL will contribute to the conference through a panel talk with a world view. From three angles - the festival, education and music practice - the panel will shed a light on the local world scene and its vast crossover with jazz in melting pot Rotterdam.
Barcelona and Lisbon alike, world harbour Rotterdam is a world heaven where old roots transform into new musical routes. With a lord mayor of Moroccan descent and a multinational population it offers fertile grounds for musical innovation. Not only reflected in festivals such as the NN North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam United and Zomerfestival. But also fuelled by Grounds Podium & WMDC (World Music & Dance Centre), a unique hotspot to study flamenco, tango and Latin. Moreover, Rotterdam is called ‘the 10th island of Cape Verde’. Urban culture is cooking in this Rhythm-dam. The three speakers know how to cook: what is their secret recipe to navigate through covid-19-times?
Stan Rijven is a music journalist, DJ, programme maker and culture booster. Since 1971 he has been active as a DJ, since 1979 as a pop critic (a.o. Trouw). He pioneered the rise of world music through publications (the magazines Africa, Beyond), TV documentaries (AVRO, NPS) and radio programmes (RVU, VPRO). He stood at the cradle of the PAN (Pop Archive Netherlands), IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music) and World Music Forum NL. Rijven is a much sought-after speaker and guest lecturer at conservatoires and universities.
Oscar van der Pluijm
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Company
WMDC/GROUNDS
Job title
Director
Interests
About me
Oscar van der Pluijm is a cultural entrepreneur, manager, consultant and musician in Rotterdam. He is currently director of the World Music & Dance Centre foundation and music stage GROUNDS. He is also the owner of the consultancy agency O ZO management. Trained as a classical guitarist and cultural scientist (Erasmus University), he is particularly interested in the variety of musical and cultural expressions in our contemporary pluralistic metropolitan society.
Carlos Matos
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Company
Carlos Matos
Job title
Artist & Composer
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About me
Carlos Matos, full name Carlos José Matos (Rotterdam 1972) is a Dutch Cape Verdean pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer. As a child Carlos was a musical boy. Instruments were his toys. After the music school of Rotterdam (SKVR) and the Rotterdam Conservatory (CODARTS), where he graduated in two directions, he specialized in various styles and developed into the versatile artist he is now. A specialist in Cape Verdean music, but also very skilled in various South American styles, pop and black gospel.
Claudia Raven
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Company
DUCOS Productions
Job title
Artistic Director
Interests
About me
Claudia Raven has worked in the music industry since 1988. First as an agent and manager of several Dutch rock bands. Later on she joined DUCOS Event Producers, a festival producer also located in Rotterdam, what became DUCOS Productions. DUCOS Productions is responsible for several large scale public events in Rotterdam and The Hague. With their events they reach a crowd of more than a million visitors each year.
Alexandre Grimaldi
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Company
Radio Frappè
Job title
Manager
Interests
About me
Miriam Brenner
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Company
Kokako Music
Job title
Director, manager & consultant
Interests
About me
Marieke Meischke
Country
Company
So What's Next? - ArtEZ Music Conservatory - Sound Out
Since over 25 years I have been exploring and walking the field of music, as a booking agent, tour manager, festival producer/manager, teacher and lyricist.
For me it is about connection and communication, sowing and reaping that leads to the right artists on the right stages expressing the core of their story. I am the founder of eclectic music festival FlatFest and project manager of festival So What’s Next? And I’m equally passionate about coaching young music students with merging words & music and preparing them for the professional music world.
www.mariekemeischke.com
Jeanneke den Boer
Country
Company
DB Consult
Job title
programme director
Interests
music middle east north africa meditterranean
About me
Zulema Mejias
Country
Company
Musikoz
Job title
Manager | Agent
Interests
About me
Martha Hawley
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Company
Martha Hawley
Job title
Journalist, teacher
Interests
About me
Paola Calamita
Country
Company
Node
Job title
Social Media Manager
Interests
About me
Floris van Elderen
Country
Company
Job title
Drummer
Interests
About me
VASILEIOS PODARAS
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Company
Billy Pod
Job title
Artist/Musician
Interests
About me
Greek Drummer living in London, UK.
https://www.billypod.com
Mario Melillo
Country
Company
NODE
Job title
Project Manager
Interests
About me
Mario Melillo is a young professional in music business skilled at project and event management.
Grown up in Puglia but currently based in Milano, Mario moved his first steps in the business working as booking agent in the jazz music fields. Together with Node, since 2012, he develops international relationships for musicians and designs contents for music trade fairs and networking events.
Ikaros van Duppen
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Company
Buma Cultuur / inJazz
Job title
general manager
Interests
About me
Alessa Knur
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Company
Alessa Knur Band
Job title
Vocalist, Singer
Interests
About me
Jazz/Pop/World
Wesley Stephenson
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Company
Jazz North East / Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
Job title
Programme Director / Administrator / Festival Producer
Interests
About me
Sonja Heimann
Country
Company
World Music Forum NL
Job title
Director
Interests
About me
Business leader, communications consultant and producer Sonja Heimann experienced within the music, performing arts, broadcasting and film world. Her focus is on developing new cultural initiatives and stimulating connection through knowledge platforms and networks. Emphasis lies on stimulating creative processes and connection.
She is director of World Music Forum NL, business leader of the Ritmundo Foundation and coach for music professionals.
Tabea Koloska
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Company
Conservatorium Maastricht
Job title
Jazz Vocalist & Composer
Interests
About me
Ildo Nandja
Country
Company
iNandjarts
Job title
Artist - PanAfrican Jazz bassit
Interests
Jazz
About me
Ildo Nandja is a versatile and progressive bassist with an ambitiously cross-fusion approaches bent towards contemporary influenced jazz, currently based in Rotterdam - Holland.
His major influences are artists such as Anders Jormin, Shai Maestro and John Goldsby who have inspired his sound, stage performance and compositional techniques.
He uses his African rhythmical abilities and expertise to express advanced harmonic concepts to his compositions. His sound blends Panafrican rhythms and melodies with Jazz, European and contemporary world music. These musical diversities reflect his experiences and the result is a combination of an experimental eclectic sound.
Ildo graduated with a summa cum laude master’s degree in jazz double bass from the Conservatorium Maastricht - NL in 2019, and was awarded the highly prestigious Henriette Hustinx 2019 prize.
Ildo continues his connection with Conservatorium Maastricht, and he's currently tutoring side subject double bass.
Frank Bolder
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Company
LantarenVenster
Job title
Programmer & Promoter
Interests
About me
Frank Bolder (born 1965) is one of the Program Managers for the North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, since 2006. He is the Music Program Manager for LantarenVenster Rotterdam since 2009. A drummer since the age of 12, Frank always did booking/bookkeeping of the bands he played in. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in arts management from HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, he worked for 10 years as the director of the Liberty Day Music Festival in Utrecht and for 5 years as agent, tour manager and musician at Crossroads Blues Agency. Frank was the co-founder of Black & Tan Records and Frank Bolder Music Management / Bolder Music Agency. He is generally doing too much and having too many jobs at the same time.
Susanne Moed
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Company
Dutch Performing Arts
Job title
Programme Manager
Interests
About me
TBA
Philippe Lavoipierre
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Company
Philippe Lavoipierre
Job title
Musician
Interests
About me
Mark van Schaick
Country
Company
Buma Cultuur / inJazz
Job title
conference programmer
Interests
About me
Cro Lampe
Country
Company
Openupcity Rotterdam
Job title
Festival Manager
Interests
About me
Lucas Figueiredo Santana
Country
Company
Lucas Figueiredo Group
Job title
Musician/Composer
Interests
About me
Brazilian musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in Amsterdam. Working in my debut album with LF Nonet.
Antonio Fernandes
Country
Company
Makuma
Job title
Virtual Assistant
Interests
Jazz and World Music, Improvisation, Electronic Music, Etnomusicology.
About me
Antonio Fernandes provides virtual assistance services directed to the music industry.
Designing strategies, niche-networking, connecting, communicating.
Working as a freelancer services provided include:
Career Consulting
Artist website Building
Concert Booking and Implementation.
Sales newsletters and Press Releases using Automations.
Exporting Stategies.
Tour Management
Contracts, Logistics, Travelling Arrangements
Showcase Applications
Funding Campaings.
Having studied Arts and Cultural Management, programmed several venues in Portugal and worked as exporting agent, Makuma is Antonio´s own project and was launched in early 2020, just before the pandemic reached Europe.
www.makuma.org
https://linktr.ee/antonio_makuma
Marina Fernández García Agullo
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Company
Martinico Music & People
Job title
Music Manager
Interests
About me
Marina Fernández
CEO Martinico Music & People - Programming / Booking / Network Coordination
Degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Granada. University Expert in Cultural Management from the University of Cádiz (2012), Master in Cultural Management, Music, Theater and Dance from the Complutense University of Madrid (2013-2015). From 2008 to 2012 she works in chamber music programs of the Asociación Qultura (Cádiz) in collaboration with cultural institutions such as the Fundación de Estudios Orquestales Baremboin-Said, the Consorcio Bicentenario de 1812 y Acción Cultural Española. She founded the JazzCádiz Festival in 2008, and directs it to the present. She promoted and programed the Jazzahara Fair-Festival in 2019. She also promoted in 2015 the creation of Andajazz, the Andalusian Federation of Jazz Associations. She was responsible for the Department of Production and Communication of the CAMM, Center of Modern Arts and Music of Malaga from 2014 to 2019.
Marnix la Gro
Country
Company
Buma Cultuur
Job title
Festival Programmer / Program & Production Assistant
Interests
About me
While studying Musicology in Amsterdam Marnix gathered an interest in the event and festival side of the music business, which is how he came to work at Buma Cultuur. Aside from being the festival programmer for inJazz, he is also a program & production assistant for Buma Music in Motion
Robbie van Zoggel
Country
Company
Stichting Boy Edgar Prijs
Job title
Redacteur
Interests
About me
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