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Guillermo Celano
Guitarist and composer Guillermo Celano was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1977. After completing his musical education at the E.M.P.A. (in Bs.As.) he travelled to Amsterdam where he received his Master’s degree in music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. During his studies he took lessons with many different musicians such as Lee Konitz, Ben Street, Ben Monder, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Matt Penmann, Peter Bernstein, Nestor Crespo, David Horta, Jesse van Ruller, Arnold Dooyeweerd, Maarten v.d Grinten, John Ruocco and many others. As the co-Leader and co-producer Guillermo started the ‘Celano Baggiani Group’‘together with the drummer Marcos Baggiani. This group has already released three cd’s: ‘Figuras’ by BAU Records, with Natalio Sued on tenor sax, Rodrigo Reijers on double bass and Florien Hamer on Cello; ‘Simple songs’ by MDR, with Michael Moore on alt sax and clarinet and Sven Schuster on double bass; and ‘Nothing changes’ by Trytone Records, with Michael Moore on alt sax and clarinet, Gorka Benitez on tenor sax and Sven Shuster on double bass.
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Iman Spaargaren
Iman is a multi-reed player, arranger and composer. Among others, he studied with Ferdinand Povel and Dick Oatts at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and with Simon Rigter and Ben van den Dungen for his Master’s degree at Codarts (Conservatory of Rotterdam). In 2008, 2009 and 2010 he toured in Belgium, Holland, UK and Ireland with the European Union Quartet (jazzquartet.eu); in 2009 he accomplished a tour through Finland with the Muistot Orchestra (myspace.com/muistotorchestra). Iman had television appearances with Captain Hook (VPRO's 'Vrije Geluiden') as well as with the New Generation Big Band ('De Wereld Draait Door' en 'Een van de Acht'). In 2007 Iman nearly won the Erasmus Jazzprijs competition. In 2006 he played with Captain Hook in the semi-finals of the Dutch Jazz Competition. Iman recorded much of his own music with Captain Hook and the European Union Quartet.
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Andreas Metzler
born 1974 in Bern (Switzerland), completed his studies at the ‘Conservatorium van Amsterdam’ in 2004. For many years, Andreas has been an active member of the Amsterdam jazz scene and has played at a number of national and international occasions with local and international musicians at places like the BIM HUIS in Amsterdam. He even achieved to get into the semi finals of the DUTCH JAZZ COMPETITION in 2004. Andreas has played in many different groups and styles: Ton Art Ensemble (experimental/avantgarde) Hamburg 1998, Shibly Band (worldmusic) Skopje Acoustic Festival 2001, Thelonious 4 (Monks Music) at many clubs and festivals since 2006, Nomy Rosenberg Trio (Gypsy Jazz) Silkeborg Riverboat Festival 2009, and many more. Andreas founded NEW SOLUTIONS in 2002 and composes and arranges pieces from the famous french composer ERIK SATIE. |
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Jurjen Bakker
Jurjen’s drummer’s career started with a local marching band in the north of Holland. It was the start of an interesting drummer’s career which includes playing in teenage bands and covering the various styles of punk, rock and jazz. He moved to Amsterdam to study urban planning, while jazz was pulling him in more and more. This brought him to the Amsterdam Conservatory. Jurjen likes to play in groups where there is a lot of space for the players to improvise and communicate. A group, that searches for the unknown when entering the stage. Jurjen has had lessons with Marcel Seriese, Martijn Vink, Gerhard Jeltes and Lucas van Merwijk. He has also followed master classes by Jack DeJohnette, Joey Baron, Ari Hoenig, Bill Stewart and Han Bennink. Sources of inspiration for Jurjen are The Ahmad Jamal Trio with Israel Crosby and Vernell Fournier, Maurice Ravel and drummers like Jeff Ballard, Steve Gadd, Mel Lewis and Brian Blade. Jurjen’s day job is as a policy researcher, but next to that he finds time for music. At the moment Jurjen is active in the jazz bands ‘Quincey’ and ‘Thelonious 4’, but he also performs with several other groups and musical initiatives.
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