Wolter Wierbos

BRAND! NL

ByJohn Dikeman Uncategorized

09.jazzfestival_web_hoofd_outlinesNONA and Cultural Mechelen organize the 2nd edition of the jazz festival BRAND! to take place February 12-13 in Mechelen, Belgium. As well as the official festival there is a second program RAND! which will take place throughout the month.

BRAND! provides a platform for a new generation of musicians in collaboration with illustrious veterans of the music. This year, the focus of the festival is on Belgian/Dutch combinations. A number of groupings featuring Doek musicians will be performing including Ambush Party, Cactus Truck, Eric Boeren, Wilbert de Joode, Teun Verbruggen, ICP and The Ex.…

Eddie and the Eagles @ DE RUIMTE

ByOscar Jan Hoogland News

Eddie and the Eagles: at the new DE RUIMTE

DE RUIMTE
Thursday January 7th
21:00 – 8 euro

AVAILABLE JELLY |  FAUT HAUT | TRISTAN HONSINGER

958186ef55d52265819c388ba2f95A new place. A new place. A new place. Always moving forward. This almost sounds familiar. It is not the first time that we find De Ruimte at a new space. It’s not the first time we find the Eddie the Eagle museum at a new space. It’s not the first time we find Doek at a new space!…

Eddie and the Eagles – FIN DU SAISON

ByOscar Jan Hoogland News

Russolo-IntonarumoEddie and the Eagles: my skin is still singing

LE GRAND FINALE – FIN DE SAISON – REIS EDITIE – SUMMER SPECIAL

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Thursday July 2nd
21:00 – 8 euro
Facebook event

 

My skin is still singing:
Makiko Ito/Michael Schumacher, movement, Oscar Jan Hoogland, music, Ellen Knops, lights

4 of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities performed by Harald Austbø
4 Orchestras in 1: The Veenfabriek Siren Orchestra, The Phonograph Orchestra, The Paper Ensemble, The Synthworkshop, featuring
Paul Koek, Mola Sylla, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Jasper Stadhouders, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Jochem van Tol, Genevieve Murphy, John van Oostrum, Ton van der Meer, Frank Rosaly.…

Doek @ Zaal 100 June 28

ByJohn Dikeman News

slide-wolter-wierbos2Doek @ Zaal 100
Sunday 28 June
20:00 – free entry!

Wolter Wierbos hosts trombone night

With Sam Kulik, Koen Kaptijn, Joost Buis, Salvoandrea Lucifora

Doek @ Zaal 100 is a monthly meeting place for music, discussion, art and drinks. For this edition Wolter Wierbos has brought together an exceptional crew of trombonists from around the world coming from both classical and jazz backgrounds. Some of them are based in the Netherlands, and a couple are just travelling though. Either way, this will be an unbelievable evening of trombone madness including improvisation, discussion over the music and the instrument, and since there are some doublers in the group, a few guitars might pop up as well.…

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Featured Artist – Wolter Wierbos

Bydoek Audio, Image, Uncategorized, Video

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Wolter Wierbos trombone

Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world’s leading trombone players. He has played throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Asia. Wierbos has many awards to his name, including the Podiumprijs for Jazz and Improvised music and the most important Dutch jazz award, the VPRO Boy Edgar Prize.
Like many Dutch brass players Wierbos started out in a ‘fanfare’ (brass band), switching from trumpet to trombone when he was 17. “It looked good, and the trombones walk in front….”…

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Wolter Wierbos to teach at ArtEZ

ByJohn Dikeman News, Uncategorized

slide-wolter-wierbos1Wolter Wierbos will join the music faculty at the renowned ArtEZ Hogeschool in Arnhem this September. Headed by pianist, composer Michael Braam, ArtEZ has one of the most forward thinking curricula of the Netherlands. They also host a faculty of some of the greatest musicians and improvisers of the region, including Doek’s own Wilbert de Joode. Now trombonists will have a chance to study with one of the greatest living trombonists in improvised music.

“..a total player, with outrageous facility and an inquiring mind… There isn’t much Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos can’t do…”

Kevin Whitehead, Coda Magazine…