Els Vandeweyer

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Els Vandeweyer with QUAT in KULT , Niederstetten 2013.

Els Vandeweyer (* 1982 ) is a Belgian vibraphonist (also percussion) and composer specializing in jazz and improvised music .

Live and act

Vandeweyer comes from a musical family and has been learning to vibraphone since she was eight years old. She first studied classical music in Antwerp before turning to jazz and improvisation music when she realized "how many classical pieces try to simulate the feeling of improvised music". She studied jazz at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (graduated in 2008); During this time she also stayed in Portugal, Norway and the United States. In Portugal she was co-founder of the quintet IMI Kollektief , for which she composed and with which the first recordings were made ( Snug as a Gun , released 2006 by Clean Feed Records ). In Oslo, she attended Norges musikkhøgskole as an exchange student for a year and also worked with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love . At the invitation of Ken Vandermark, she performed in Chicago, where she also played with Fred Lonberg-Holm , Kent Kessler , Tim Daisy and Jeff Parker .

After her return to Europe she moved to Berlin, where she worked in the improvisation scene there and joined the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra ; she co-founded the trio Tulip Trees , with Almut Kühne and Brian Mitchell . In 2011 she worked in Tuscany and Berlin with the ensemble The Somnambulist (album Sophia Verloren ). In 2013 she performed on the Berlin A'larme! Festival on; In the same year the album Quat Live at Hasselt ( NoBusiness Records ) was released, on which Fred Van Hove , Paul Lovens and Martin Blume participated. In the group Mimosa she plays with Natalie Sandtorv and Rieko Okuda (with whom she also formed the duo Metal Illusion ), in Spin Track with Olaf Rupp and DJ Illvibe . She is also a member of Pascal Niggenkemper's Vision 7 and the Serenus Zeitblom Octet . In 2019, her first album, Debut, was released under her own name.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of KudusJazz
  2. ↑ Portrait at Abroad-Berlin
  3. ↑ With Marco Bianciardi, Rafael Bord, Marcello S. Busato, Chris Abrahams , Carsten Wegener, Albertine Sarges.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ A'arms! Festival at Spex ( Memento from August 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ John Sharpe: Review of the album Vandeweyer / Van Hove / Lovens / Blume: Quat Live at Hasselt (2013) in All About Jazz
  7. ↑ Brief bio (Culture from Flanders)
personal data
SURNAME Vandeweyer, Els
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1982