Ig Henneman

Ig Henneman (born December 21, 1945 in Haarlem ) is a Dutch violist and composer who works in the field of jazz and improvised music .

Henneman studied violin and viola at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Tilburg . She began her musical career as a viola player in a symphony orchestra. Then she founded the rock band FC Gerania in 1979 , for which she also composed. From 1982 to 1985 she also played in Nedly Elstak's improvisation groups Several Singers and a Horn and in his Paradise Regained Orchestra . From 1985 she began to lead her own groups in the field of jazz and improvised music and to compose for these bands.

Ig Hennemann, 2007

She worked with Wolter Wierbos , Peggy Lee , Annemarie Roelofs , Wilbert de Joode , Ab Baars, Misha Mengelberg , Theo Jörgensmann , Tristan Honsinger , Mary Oliver , Roswell Rudd , Han Buhrs and Mark Helias , among others . Together with the woodwind player Lori Freedman and the pianist Marilyn Lerner , she forms the Queen Mab Trio , with whom she has recorded two albums and performed at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and other international festivals.

She wrote compositions for the Metropole Orkest , Orkest De Volharding , Resedentie Orchestra and others. Her partner is the Dutch clarinetist and saxophonist Ab Baars , with whom she also heads the WIG Foundation.

Discography (selection)

Ig Henneman Quintet In Grassetto (1991)
Ig Hennemann Tentet Repeat that, repeat (1995)
Ig Henneman Tentet Indigo (1998)
Ig Henneman String Quartet Piazza Pia (2004)
Queen Mab Trio: Thin Air , 2006
Collected (1991-2010)
Live @ The Jazz Happening Tampere , (Relative Pitch Records, 2016), with Ingrid Laubrock , Mary Halvorson , Tom Rainey

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personal data
SURNAME	Henneman, Ig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch jazz violist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Haarlem