Frank Bolder & Frank van Berkel about the crisis in club land
Your most pressing questions answered!
They may be the most sought-after representatives of the Dutch jazz business. Frank Bolder is the programmer and managing director at LantarenVenster in Rotterdam and programmer for the city's NN North Sea Jazz Festival. Frank van Berkel is Head of Programming at BIMHUIS in Amsterdam. Both have an extensive knowledge of jazz, jazz history and the business that is built around the music. There have been moments where one Frank was mistaken for the other, but that's another story.
Interviewed by radio journalist Mijke van Wijk, Frank and Frank will talk about their views on jazz programming before and after the covid-19-crisis, the position of the Netherlands in the international jazz network and about the latest developments in their respective venues.
Mijke van Wijk is a journalist and presenter. For years she presented the program Mijkes Middag on Radio 6 Soul&Jazz. She is currently working at the KRO-NCRV's research program De Monitor and doing research for a new podcast series. She is also a stage presenter at jazz festivals throughout the country.
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.
Frank van Berkel
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Company
BIMHUIS
Job title
Head of Programming
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About me
Frank van Berkel (born 1963) is working as program director at the BIMHUIS Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since January 2018. Frank also works as a freelance programmer for festival North Sea Round Town in Rotterdam. Before that, Frank worked as a freelance music program manager in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Frank worked for Concertgebouw De Doelen, Jazz International Rotterdam, LantarenVenster and LUX in Nijmegen. He managed the New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra, an original collective of next generation Dutch jazz musicians and sat on the advisory committee for music of the Dutch Performing Arts Fund for six years. Frank studied double bass and bass guitar at the Rotterdam Conservatory (nowadays Codarts) and obtained a master-degree on music programming at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem.
Mylène Berghs
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Company
Squared-Agency
Job title
Artist manager
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tim sprangers
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Company
sitp
Job title
programmer
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Guy Salamon
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Company
The Guy Salamon Group
Job title
Musician
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About me
Amsterdam based drummer / composer / arranger / educator / band leader. Originally from Israel, main occupation as leader of the award winning Guy Salamon Group and drummer of Fuensanta Mendez, Teis Semey, Sam Newbauld, Jim van der Zee and Aviv Noam to name a few.
www.guysalamon.com
Ties Timmers
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Radar Agency
Job title
Booking Agent
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Bret Sjerven
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Company
Sunnyside Records
Job title
Publicist/Marketing
Interests
Records, reading, coffee, research....
About me
I'm a recent transplant from New York City to Amsterdam. I've worked for Sunnyside Records as a publicist and marketing manager for over a decade. I hope to get more involved in the European jazz scene in order to promote the music I love. I am also a huge record collector and in the process of researching/interviewing for a book I plan to write about avant-garde music from Louisiana.
Ikaros van Duppen
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Company
Buma Cultuur / inJazz
Job title
general manager
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laura varache
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Company
musiclx
Job title
jazz project manager
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About me
After almost 10 years spent in the music industry in France and in Africa (management, booking, programming), i am now project manager alongside luxembourgish musicians to accompany them in their career development at an international level.
Maria Mendes
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Company
Maria Mendes
Job title
Artist
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About me
Maria Mendes’s talents have been praised by musical legends such as Quincy Jones and Hermeto Pascoal. She is a Jazz singer in heart and soul, however you can hear her bringing unlikely musical genres together, reimagining Classical & Latin music and reviving Fado’s sorrowful sound through hauntingly serenades, jaunty jazz meditations and crisp melismatic scatting.
“A jazz singer of the highest order. Her poise is as impressive as her power” DOWNBEAT, USA
“Mendes’ voice and improvisation are paramount art” NRC, NL
“Longing, love, nostalgia are the themes, performed with a voice that is unsurpassed in purity and variability” JAZZ ’N’ MORE, CH
Current project:
- Maria Mendes 4tet ft John Beasley (keys)
- Maria Mendes + Metropole Orkest (chamber line up) + John Beasley (conductor/keys)
Iman Spaargaren
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EyemanMusic
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artist
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About me
www.imanspaargaren.nl
Undercurrent Trio: https://soundcloud.com/iman-spaargaren/sets/undercurrent-trio-high-tide
Pelican Three: https://soundcloud.com/iman-spaargaren/sets/pelican-three
StarkLinnemann Quartet: https://soundcloud.com/stark-linnemann/sets/pictures-at-an-exhibition-scv
Iman is a multi-reed player, arranger and composer.
Iman has a distinctive way of playing and a very personal tone on his horn. He likes to search for different ways of expressing himself in different kinds of music. His main musical goal is to have a great deal of freedom in melody, harmony and rhythm and presenting that in a comprehensible context for the listener.
Over the past years Iman has been busy with a wide variety of music groups such as Undercurrent Trio, StarkLinnemann Quartet, EyeMan All Stars, Pelican Three.
In 2019 Iman released High Tide Low Tide on Flea Boy Records with Undercurrent Trio featuring Guillermo Celano and Marcos Baggiani.
In 2018 Iman released the album Pictures at an Exhibition with
O. Gerritsen
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Company
Stichting Powered by TINC
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Business Director
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Stephanie Baustert
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Company
Stephanie Baustert Music Management
Job title
Music Manager
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About me
Stephanie Baustert is a Luxembourg-based music manager driven by the desire to help artists build their career and reach their full potential. She provides full service artist management, career development and booking to both local and international jazz and improvised music artists.
In addition, she offers a wide range of services to musicians of all genres, thus enabling them to focus on what they do best: music.
Hans van Eeden
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Company
Jazzflits magazine
Job title
hoofdredacteur
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Stijn Viaene
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Company
Arawak Band Support
Job title
Artist Management
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Ramon van Merkenstein
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Company
Ramon van Merkenstein Trio
Job title
musician & composer
Interests
About me
Dutch bass player based in Brussels, playing in several projects.
Leader of Ramon van Merkenstein Trio. We recorded our first album recently, and currently preparing the release.
www.ramonvanmerkenstein.com
Zulema Mejias
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Company
Musikoz
Job title
Manager | Agent
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About me
Giuseppe Doronzo
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Company
Giuseppe Doronzo/ Tora Records
Job title
musician,composer
Interests
About me
www.giuseppedoronzo.com
Gustavo Mezo
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Company
Monart Music Agency
Job title
Web PR / Management
Interests
Web marketing, PR, Media Jazz & Booking. France & Mexico
About me
www.monartagency.com
www.jazzinmexico.com
Danielle Oosterop
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Company
Danielle Oosterop Music Management
Job title
agent
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About me
Rosalie Genay
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Company
Rosalie Genay
Job title
Vocalist - Composer
Interests
About me
www.rosaliegenay.com
Sam Newbould
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Company
Sam Newbould Quintet
Job title
Musician
Interests
About me
Lizon Lavaud
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Company
Le Bureau Export
Job title
Project Manager / Jazz Music Expert
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Selin Celik
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Company
Selin Celik Music Productions / Yeldeğirmeni Jazz Festival
Job title
Producer/ Festival co-founder & consultant
Interests
About me
Selin Çelik is a producer and a consultant based in Madrid with marketing and musical background. In her role as a producer she creates musical projects building bridges between cultures and countries. As a consultant she provides marketing strategies aiming awareness building and recognition opportunities for her clients in new locations highlighting their unique assets.
She ran her own marketing company in Istanbul, Turkey, for 11 years when she got herself into the music world with the BAU Jazz Programme in Istanbul in 2015, chasing her childhood ambitions; hence, her life as a music professional started to shape.
She is also the co-founder and executive director of Istanbul Yeldegirmeni (Windmills) Jazz Festival which is the first and sole touring jazz festival of Turkey focused on “Collaboration Theme”.
She has created and realised number of cross-cultural collaboration projects with recognised artists from Spain, USA, The Netherlands, Israel, France and Turkey.
Among her hi
manana muskhelishvili
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Company
exsound
Job title
jazz promoter
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Fred Gluzman
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Company
VO Music
Job title
Manager
Interests
About me
Booking agency based in France representing jazz artists to develop their career and produce their tours in Europe or in France only depending on the reqruirements, looking to expand our roster and get in touch with festival and venue programmers worlwide
www.vo-music.com
Peter Knoppert
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Company
Funked Up/ Peel Slowly And See Leiden
Job title
programmeur
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Catarina Pauli Caldas
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Company
Handshake Booking GmbH
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Booker
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Federico Calcagno
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Company
Musician
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Musician
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Guy van Hulst
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Company
TivoliVredenburg & Transition Festival
Job title
programmer
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Mark Alban Lotz
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Company
Foundation Lotz Of Music
Job title
Artist & Festival Director
Interests
Network, collaboration
About me
I travel the globe as soloist, bandleader, curator in Jazz/World and enjoy this to full extend . In NL I am also involved in three festivals, advisor for a funding institution (Fpk) and make part of the governance board of the BIM (an Union for improvising musicians).
Natanael Ramos
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Company
Atlantic Jazz Lab
Job title
Director / Musician
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About me
I'm a musician and also director of the Atlantic Jazz Lab, a platform to promote jazz music from and for the Canary Islands.
More on: natanaelramos.com / atlanticjazzlab.org
Arlette Hovinga
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Company
MusicRunner
Job title
Organizer, marketeer
Interests
Muziek, events, marketing
About me
I work for an agency as a tour producer. I am not a booking agent, but I host and organize my own events. Currently, I am primarily active as a marketeer for jazz/world/classical musicians, and spend most of my time writing.
David Shooter
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Company
Lancaster Jazz Festival
Job title
Festival Organizer and Musician & Producer
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About me
Maripepa Contreras
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Company
Maripepa Contreras
Job title
musician, composer
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www.maripepacontreras.com
Joshua Dellaert
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Company
ART-SPOT.BE
Job title
external relations, showcases & bookings
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About me
ART-SPOT.BE is an innovative alternative management office for jazz orientated acts. ART-SPOT.BE uses its skills and knowhow to support musicians with one-off projects and/or structural aspects of their band and is a sparring partner and coach that assists bands in their search for authentic expression and helps them to reach a larger audience. ART-SPOT.BE is a contact point for artists, bands and projects. We offer a clearly defined long-term vision and thorough, structured and reliable support. We aim high and we like to work with artists who do the same musically, artistically and business-wise. ART-SPOT.BE represents following bands : BESTIAAL - COMPRO ORO - H A S T - JOHN GHOST - MATTIASDECRAENE - MDCIII - NORDMANN - SKORDATURA - STEIGER - WASDAMAN
Dineke Bogchelman
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Company
Hot House Leiden
Job title
programmeur
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Laurent Carrier
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Company
COLORE/OROTONE Agency
Job title
Director
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TBA
Rosa Galbany
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Company
JAZZ I AM & Taller de Músics
Job title
Director & Head International Department
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TBA
Hilde Spille
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Company
Paperclip Agency
Job title
booking agent
Interests
cross-over
About me
booking agent for the Netherlands and Europe, since '95, working with pop/rock and crossover to world and jazz, for standing and seated audience; I also write about mental challenges for artists at compassforcreatives.com
Kirsi Harju
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Company
Kirsi Harju Music, KAMA Kollektiv
Job title
Trumpeter, singer, composer
Interests
About me
Finnish musician based in Amsterdam. Leader of KAMA Kollektiv www.kamakollektiv.com
facebook.com/kamakollektiv
www.kirsimarjaharju.com
facebook.com/kirsiharjumusic
Tizaan Alphonso
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Company
Tizaan Alphonso Music
Job title
Pianist/Singer/Band Leader
Interests
Jazz/Soul/R&B
About me
Debut Album "Feel It" out on all platforms:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tizaanalphonso/feel-it
I will be interested in meeting professionals and presenting my work to them to get advice on how to improve communication. In particular, it would be very interesting for me to get an outside perspective on my work, what are the strong points, the weak points, etc...
About me
Harpist Julie Campiche’s work is an on-going process of musical innovation. Through research and experimentation she has developed the use of electronic effects that enhance the scope of her improvisational work. She has a very personnel technique and her own musical language.
Julie introduced her harp into the world of jazz and contemporary music in a very organic way. She now performs in numerous European clubs and festivals on a regular basis.
As a leader, Julie develops very personal projects.
Since 2016, Julie has been playing regularly in Europe with her eponymous quartet. This group, ist acclaimed by the international press and was selected to represent Switzerland at the 12 Points Festival in Dublin and nominated for the Montreux Jazz New Talent Award.
In January 2020 Julie initiated the Strings Project, with which she wants to reunite her classical, jazz and electronic roots.
In addition to her concerts as a performing musician, Julie recently discovered a great interest in composition.
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Giel Dekkers
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Company
Dox Records
Job title
Label Manager
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Charalampos Chronis
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Harry Chronis
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Musician
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Jelske Hoogervorst
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Jelske Hoogervorst
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Musician
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Jaïr Tchong
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www.kaap.be
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promotor
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https://jairtchong.wordpress.com/over/
Linda Waal
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Company
Stroom Management
Job title
Artist manager
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Maria Pavlikhina
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Jean-Paul Bourelly / JPGotMangos
Job title
Management
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Xavier Barceló
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Company
Fira B! & Government of the Balearic Islands
Job title
Music Director & Project Manager
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TBA
Bram Stadhouders
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Company
Bram Stadhouders
Job title
Artist & Composer
Interests
About me
Bram Stadhouders (Netherlands, 1987) is an improviser and composer, best known for creating highly unusual projects using guitar and technology, blending different genres together. He has received important awards, is active touring globally and collaborates with established artists in the international music scene.
Sun-Mi Hong
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Company
Sun-Mi Hong Quintet
Job title
Musician
Interests
Concerts, Festivals, funding
About me
A drummer, Composer and a bandleader from South-Korea living in the Netherlands
Dominic Reilly
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Company
Teddy D Promotions Ltd.
Job title
Promoter / Artist Manager
Interests
Golf, Chess, Politics,
About me
Started in the music industry in 2012 following a career as a golf professional.
I tend to work with artists by "promoting' them into Ireland and "Managing" them out of Ireland.
Over the years I have worked with Ahmad Jamal, Charles Lloyd, The Manhattan Transfer, Joey Alexander, Avishai Cohen (trumpeter) to name a few.
I manage Dr. Linley Hamilton, Melanie O'Reilly, Andrea Black. Gediminas Karkausakas.
Following the mastering of a new album I deal with everything else for the artist like manufacturing, distribution, PR etc.
Koen Graat
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Company
November Music, Jazz in Duketown, Paradox & Verkadefabriek
Job title
Promoter & Programmer
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TBA
Miriam Brenner
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Company
Kokako Music
Job title
Director, manager & consultant
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Lucy Woolley
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Company
JPN
Job title
Network Manager
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Lucas Figueiredo Santana
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Company
Lucas Figueiredo Group
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Musician/Composer
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About me
Brazilian musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in Amsterdam. Working in my debut album with LF Nonet.
Vivienne Aerts
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Company
Vervool
Job title
Vocalist and experience design
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Angelique van Os
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Company
Jazzism / Aphranova
Job title
freelance journalist / musician
Interests
festival programmers, bookers, new talents
About me
For quite some years I am a freelance journalist/editor for Jazzism magazine. I ha a big international network and built up quite some expertise. Also I am a singer, songwriter and running my band Aphranova, of which we have released our debut album The Crossing in Feb. this year.
Fuensanta Méndez
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Company
Fuensanta Méndez
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Artist / Bandleader
Interests
About me
www.fuensantamendez.com
Singer, double bassist, composer, and poet. Born and raised in the water forest of Veracruz (MX), based in Amsterdam.
Agus Setiawan Basuni
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Company
WartaJazz Indonesia
Job title
Editor in Chief | Managing Director
Interests
About me
WartaJazz is the an ecosystem of Jazz in Indonesia. Helping many international artists reach out Indonesian audiences.
Bert Palinckx
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Company
November Music
Job title
Artistic Director
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Katharina Busch
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jazzahead! / Messe Bremen
Job title
Project Executive
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Mark van Schaick
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Company
Buma Cultuur / inJazz
Job title
conference programmer
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Philippe Lavoipierre
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Philippe Lavoipierre
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Musician
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Kasper Rietkerk
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Company
Das Sound Kollektiv
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Musician
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Nod Knowles
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Company
Job title
arts and music consultant and promoter
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About me
Nod Knowles, former President of Europe Jazz Network, has had an international career including as Head of Music at Scottish Arts Council, CEO and Programme Director of Bath Festivals, founding organiser of JPN and of the Going Dutch project. He has held various advisory roles and now works in consultancy with a wide range of artists and organisations in research, review, funding, project management and artistic direction. He is currently working to develop the new European Folk Network.
Nuria Bulta
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Company
Catalan Arts / ICEC - Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies
Job title
Director Delegation ICEC Brussels
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victor belmonte
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Company
.
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.
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Nabou Claerhout
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N∆BOU
Job title
Artist & Composer
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Yuri Rhodenborgh
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Company
YRMusic
Job title
Musician - Guitarist
Interests
Music, composition, highlining
About me
Dutch guitar-player, composer and highliner living in Rotterdam
Barak Weiss
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Company
Tel Aviv Jazz Festival
Job title
Artistic Director
Interests
About me
Roland Huguenin
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Company
Jazzflits
Job title
recensent
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Antonio Fernandes
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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
Sol Jang
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Company
Sol Jang
Job title
Jazz Pianist/Composer
Interests
Networking, International Festivals, Jazz and Experimental Music
About me
“Musical language which is already mature and has its own sound but it’s still keeping the youthful freshness and willing to experiment.”(Jazzklub Krefeld)
Sol Jang is a South Korean pianist and composer. She debuted in the music scene through a famous Korean TV program called “The Greatest Birth” 2012. Sol Jang received her Bachelor's degree at UArts Philadelphia and finished a master's study at ArtEZ Arnhem. Currently working as a dance accompanist at ArtEZ Arnhem.
She is a two-time jazz competition finalist and actively performing in clubs and the festivals.
www.soljang.com
Oliver Weindling
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Company
Vortex Jazz Club
Job title
Director
Interests
About me
Thomas Winther Andersen
Country
Company
BIM Beroepsvereniging van Improviserende Musici
Job title
Voorzitter
Interests
Jazz, music business, how to better corporate as a jazzscene
About me
Musician, bass and composition. At the moment working hard for the union of improvising Musicians. BIM.
Olga Savelkoel
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Company
Savel Muziek
Job title
Musician
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About me
Kika Sprangers
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Company
Kika Sprangers
Job title
Artist & Composer
Interests
About me
Kika Sprangers, saxophonist, is recognized as one of the finest young talents in contemporary jazz in the Netherlands. During her musical studies she led the saxophone section in the Dutch National Youth Jazz Orchestra, touring internationally. She is drawn to working in a variety of musical settings. Her main focus is her quintet and Large Ensemble (an extension of her quintet including three singers, bass clarinet, French horn, trumpet and flute).
Robert van der Padt
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Company
Bird Call Bookings
Job title
Booker/Musician
Interests
Birds, board games, outdoor sports and some jazz
About me
Representing a.o. Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet (new album BLUEBEARD), Ikarai (new show MURAKAMI). Bandleader of Tyranni Flock (jazzfusion). Delegate of the Conservatorium Maastricht.
Raluca Baicu
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Company
BIRD, BIRDfest, North Sea Round Town, Romanian Jazz International
@78rotacoes
:: Afro Modern / Brazilian Jazz and more
Steve Mead
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Company
mjf
Job title
Artistic Director
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Teus Nobel
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Company
Liberty Music Foundation
Job title
jazz trumpeter | composer | musical entrepreneur
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About me
Trumpeter (jazz/pop), CEO of Liberty Music Foundation. CEO of PJO Foundation. Teacher at AMPA (Tilburg).
Isla Van Hout
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Company
New Amsterdam Jazz
Job title
Musician and producer
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Folker Tettero
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Company
Tettero
Job title
Guitarist/bandleader
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FRANZ VON CHOSSY
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Franz von Chossy
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Artist
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Mijke Loeven
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Company
BIMHUIS
Job title
Aristic Director
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About me
Mijke Loeven is director of Amsterdam's famed jazz venue BIMHUIS. The venue has started BIMHUIS Productions in order to create room for ‘the development of relatively unknown but excellent talent, for new ensembles and brilliant compositions, for willfulness, virtuosity and great performances’. Needless to say that BIMHUIS has been supporting artists from the realm of the JPN on a regular basis.
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