Marike van Dijk

Marike van Dijk, 2017

Marike van Dijk (born August 23, 1982 in Wijckel ) is a Dutch jazz musician ( alto saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Van Dijk, daughter of speed skater Jappie van Dijk , started learning the saxophone at the age of 11. At the age of fourteen she played jazz. She first studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory (graduated in 2006) and then went on to study jazz performance at the Amsterdam Conservatory . She toured Europe with her own band and played with the European Jazz Orchestra . She then went to New York City, where she studied at the Manhattan School of Music , at New York University (Master, 2013) and with Gil Goldstein . She performed here in clubs like the Blue Note and worked with a dance group called The Lovelies . She also composed for Andy Cavatorta. Omrop Fryslân made a documentary about her time in New York.

Dijk has released several albums with her bands and has performed several times at the North Sea Jazz Festival . She recorded The Stereography Project with a group of twelve around Ben van Gelder , Lucas Pino and Mark Schilders . She also played in the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Dual City Concert Bigband, Konrad Koselleck Bigband, New Cool Collective Bigband, Amsterdam Jazz Orchestra, New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra and the Holland Bigband . She accompanies films live with her trio Laika into Orbit . She also composed for the Metropole Orkest .

Dijk teaches at the Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences .

Discographic notes

• Patches of Blue (self-distributed, 2010)
• The Stereography Project (BJU Records, 2015)
• The Stereography Project Feat. Jeff Taylor and Katell Keineg (Hert Records / Membran, 2018)

Web links

• Web presence
• interview
• Marike van Dijk at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry (AllAboutJazz)
2. ↑ Biography (BJU Records)
3. ↑ Muzikant, componist, Friezin in New York NRC, May 1, 2015