
Antoine Colin - Trumpet
Jo Hermans - Trumpet
Nico Schepers - Trumpet
Carlo Nardozza - Trumpet
Ewout Pierreux - Piano
Werner Lauscher - Bas
Mimi Verderame - Drums
Antoine Colin
After a Master in classical music at IMEP in Namur (BE), Antoine chose to redirect his career to pop and jazz music. Therefore, he studied for three more years in Maastricht Conservatorium (NL) with Rob Bruynen. He already had the opportunity to play with amongst many others : Royal Opera of Wallonia, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg, WDR Rundfunkorchester, WDR Big Band, Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra of Concertgebouw, The Voice Belgique, Soulsister, Axelle Red, Royal Air Force Band of the Netherlands, Royal Band of the Belgian Navy, Luxemburg National Jazz Orchestra, Belgian Brass, Belgian Brass Soloists Quintet, OTO Machine,...
He gives regularly masterclasses and performs as a soloist internationally.
As a bandleader, he produced some video recordings with his WE Big Band, conducted for many years the Fanfare 'Les Echos de L'Amblève' from Ligneuville and the 'Uncle Mike Big Band' from Rodt, with whom he won the European Big Band Contest of Esch-sur-Alzette (Lu)
Antoine is currently member of the SWR Big Band and the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra directed by Uli Plettendorff.
Jo Hermans
Music has always been the guiding principle in the life of Jo Hermans (°1984). At a young age he started combining different musical genres: he won the soloist prize at the prestigious National Brass Band Championships, but also remained active in the jazz scene. For example, he set up a cross-over project with his jazz quartet and the Flemish Radio Choir.
He obtained his classical diploma at the Antwerp Conservatory, after which he went to the Amsterdam Conservatory to delve into jazz with Jan Oosthof, Bert Joris and Ruud Breuls, among others.
His versatility has proven to be a great asset both in the studio and live, and has led to beautiful collaborations with, among others: the Metropole Orchestra (NL), Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Clouseau, The Jay Horns, Balthazar, Raymond van het Groenewoud, Daan, Bart Peeters, Jef Neve, dEUS, .... His other passion is songwriting. In 2012 he wrote a song for TV icon Marcel Vanthilt on behalf of Radio 1 (Belgium). From that moment on he started writing on behalf of various artists.
Since 2010 Jo has been teaching trumpet at the music academy of Herentals and Borgerhout.
Nico Schepers (°1974)
started playing the trumpet at the age of 6. In 1999 he graduated as a teaching and performing musician (light music) at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He played several times at the "IAJE" festival in New York and New Orleans. He was regularly heard at the "North Sea", "Montreux" and "Middelheim" Jazz festival. In January 1998 he won the "Erasmus Jazz" prize in the Netherlands and one year later the "VSB Music Award" with his own quartet. Since October 1999 he teaches at the Antwerp Conservatory. Larger formations he worked with in the past are WDR Bigband, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, European Broadcasting Bigband, Cubop city Bigband, Nueva Manteca, Blue Blot, El Tattoo del Tigre, Belle Perez Band, Natalia Band, & Currently he plays with: the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, High Voltage Sextet, Amina Figarova, Chris Strik New Orleans Xperience, Bart Quartier Quintet, Soulsister and the brass section The Heavy Horns. With this section he works as a studio musician in Belgium, the Netherlands and he made several recordings, performances with artists from all kinds of genres: Clouseau, Laura Fabian, Mauranne, Helmut Lotti, Paul Young, Axelle Red, Bram Vermeulen, Kommil Foo, Will Tura, & He also regularly collaborates on TV productions on VRT and VTM.
Carlo Nardozza
Carlo Nardozza (1982) is the youngest son of two from a warm Italian family in Genk (Belgium). Since the age of seven Carlo has been fascinated by the trumpet and took his first steps in music inspired by his musical father.
He graduated cum laude for trumpet at Conservatorium Maastricht under supervision of Rob Bruynen and later on studied for his Masterdegree at the same institute under supervision of Claudius Valk and Bert Joris.
During his study Carlo Nardozza founded his own Quintet and started composing for this Quintet, mostly inspired by worldmusic. This Carlo Nardozza Quintet recorded two CD’s, “Making Choices” and “Winterslag”, toured with Jazzlab through Flanders, and also through Romania, Italy and France. They won multiple prices at the Young Jazztalent Concours Gent (Belgium), best composition price at the Tremplin Jazz Concours in Avignon (France), and the Jerry van Rooyen Award (Netherlands).
Also in Maastricht Carlo met the Luxembourg drummer Jeff Herr with whom he created the Jeff Herr Corporation (fusion-space funk). In the meantime they recorded two CD’s and toured through many locations in Europe.
Carlo Nardozza used to be a member of different musical companies. One of them was the Henri Texier Red Route Quintet with whom he worked for three years, another project was the European Jazz Trumpets which used to be a trumpet collective led by trumpet player Pierre Drevet. Carlo also participated in the Orchestre National Jazz Luxemburg with whom he made around two recordings among George Duke.
Until now he also played with Rebirth Collective, OTO - machine and The Muze Jazz Orchestra.
Currently he is engaged in several musical projects which he founded together with some colleague musicians, including Duology (duo with the double bass player Christophe Devisscher, Album “Duology” released in 2015), 11 (duo with composer and pianist Michel Bisceglia, Album “11” released in 2013), The Carlo Nardozza Quartet, and The Delirium Quintet (among trumpet player Nico Schepers).
Together with pianist Alano Gruarin and guitar player Tim Finoulst, Carlo founded a new project last year named In Bocca al Lupo. For this trio Carlo made arrangements of great Italian classics, without questioning played by the heart because of his Italian roots.
Besides these projects he is a member of the Johannes Müllers Jazz Mile, the Jelle Van Giel Group and the Bram Weijters Quartet.
Carlo is starting a new project “Big Band Nardozza” where he will be accompanied by different Big Bands in Europe. Several great and respected composers (Bert Joris, Lieven Cambré, Lode Mertens and others) are arranging Carlo’s own compositions for Big Band, beautifull music is coming our way!
Carlo as a freelancer already worked with Bert Joris, Philip Catherine, Paul Michiels, Clouseau, Lee Konitz, Dado Moroni, Rosenberg Trio, Bobby Shew, Henri Texier, George Duke, Bruno Castelluci, Brussels Jazz Orchestra and many others.
As Professor in Music and trumpet Carlo has been teaching at the Conservatorium of Gent and the Conservatorium of Brussels. Currently he is teaching at the Conservatorium of Maastricht and at the Academy of Music Hasselt.
Ewout Pierreux
I was born in 1978 in Halle, near Brussels in Belgium and studied piano in the last five years of the previous millennium at the jazz department of the Lemmensinstituut (now LUCA School Of Arts) in Leuven with some of the very best musicians on the Belgian and European scene – Ron Van Rossum, Bert Joris, Frank Vaganée, Dré Pallemaerts, Philippe Aerts a.o.
I play and write music, mostly in jazz and jazz-related surroundings, and I do sideman work for several (mostly Belgian based) projects. Most important people or bands I work with are Tutu Puoane, Rebirth::Collective, Jelle Van Giel’s ‘Close Distance’, Marjan van Rompay, Hnita Big Band & Small World (= a coöperation project with South African trumpet player Marcus Wyatt). I spent a few years playing keys (and singing some backing vocals) in Flemish pop singer Eva De Roovere’s live band.
I write songs and arrangements, and am getting more and more into general music production and booking.
As an educator I teach jazz piano and ensemble at De Kunsthumaniora, an arts high school in Antwerp, preparing talented youngsters for music college.
Together with Tutu, I own our company SoulFactory, which houses an independent booking platform and record label dedicated to jazz and improvised music. Within this structure I take care of the general management, bookings and production of our music and some external projects we love and try to support.
Most of my hobbies are also music-related: I like to fool around and experiment with audio recording/mixing, and I’ve been teaching myself to tune pianos. No commercial ambition in both those fields by the way – but if you need help/advice in one of those areas, don’t hesitate to ask. Outside of music I like sports (football, swimming, …), good food and great wine, and I am and will probably always be a car nut. Driving electric these days, but still dreaming of my own (old-timer) 911. One day.
Werner Lauscher
German bassist, born in 1963 in Aachen, Germany. At the age of 18 he began his professional carreer as a bass-player. His very specific grooving swinging and melodical style can be heard on more than 40 Cd's - recordings with Charlie Mariano, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Rocco Granata, Joachim Kühn, Helmut Lotti, Toots Thielemann, Glenn Corneille, Boris, Jo Lemaire, Michel Bisceglia, Leon Delray (Udo Schild) and many others.
Werner is a member of 'Scetches' and 'Dance Of Joy'.
MIMI VERDERAME .
He learns his basics in drumming at the age of six. At fourteen he attends courses at the Academy of Music in Liège (Belgium) and simultaneously takes up work as a studio musician At the same age, he discovers a new passion: the guitar. He spends hours listening to the great jazz musicians and learns on his own the guitar. He starts composing and writing arrangements...He has his debut as a jazz drummer at the age of 17 with the alto saxophone player Jacques Pelzer.Rapidly Mimi Verderame asserts his position in jazz.
Reactie plaatsen
Reacties