Albert van Veenendaal

Albert van Veenendaal (born July 24, 1956 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch jazz pianist.

Live and act

Van Veenendaal studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Misha Mengelberg (1978 to 1980), Niko Langenhuijsen (1978–1983), Willem van Manen (1978–1981) and Arnold Dooyeweerd (1978 to 1982). He won the Meervaart Jazz Competition in 1982 . Since then he has worked with musicians such as Corrie van Binsbergen , Arnold Dooyeweerd, Rob van den Broeck , Wiek Hijmans , Cameron Brown and Sylvie Courvoisier .

In addition, he founded a number of his own bands, including the Trio Pavlov (with Oene van Geel and Hans Hasebos ), the Traveling Light Piano Trio (with Niko Langenhuijsen and Jozef Dumoulin ), a trio with Meinrad Kneer and Yonga Sun and a duo with Kneer. He also gives concerts as a solo pianist. In 2001 he founded a Four Piano Quartet

With the group President of the Globe (with Elisa Roep , Alec Kopyt , Meinrad Kneer and Tobias Klein ) van Veenendaal dedicates himself to the work of the poet Velimir Chlebnikov . With the group I Compani (with Bo van de Graaf , Ewout Dercksen , Jeroen Doomernik , Tessa Zoutendijk , Hans Hasebos, Meinrad Kneer and Yonga Sun) he started the multimedia project Circusism in Nijemegen in 2007 . He is also active as a composer.

Discographic notes

• Pavlov: Sinatra This Way , 2000
• Van Veenendaal and Esmée Olthuis : This Is to Say , 2002
• Pavlov: Vlieg Op! , 2004
• Van Veenendaal and Esmée Olthuis: Stripes & Spikes & Stripes , 2005
• Traveling Light Piano Trio: Terra Firma , 2005
• Van Veenendaal / Kneer / Sun: Songs to Dance Strangely With , 2005
• Van Veenendaal / Fabrizio Puglisi : Duets for Prepared, Unprepared and Toy Pianos , 2006
• Duo Kneer / Van Veenendaal: The Munderkingen Sessions part 1 , 2006
• Kees van der Zwaard & Pavlov: Koos , 2007
• Calefax & Eric Vloeimans On the Spot , 2013
• Matthieu Donarien / Albert van Veenendaal The Visible One’s , 2014
• van Otterloo / van Veenendaal No Trace , 2015

Web links

• Albert van Veenendaal's website
• Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
• Albert van Veenendaal at Allmusic (English)