Michiel Borstlap

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Michiel Borstlap

Michiel Borstlap (* 1966 in The Hague ) is a Dutch pianist and composer of jazz crossover, pop and classical music.

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Borstlap started playing the piano at the age of five. In 1992 he finished his studies (piano with Rob Madna and Henk Elkerbout ) at the Hilversum Conservatory "cum laude" and won first prize at the European jazz competition in Brussels . In 1994 he made his first appearance at the North Sea Jazz Festival .

He made his first own recordings in 1992 with his own sextet ("Day off"). He toured worldwide with his own trio, sextet and as a soloist and played at numerous festivals. In 1996 he won the Thelonious Monk composition competition with "Memory of Enchantment", which Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter recorded in their album "1 + 1" and played on their world tours in 1997 and 2000 after they had already performed it at the Monk Awards . In 1998 and 1999 he was nominated for the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival . In 2000 Borstlap got a record deal with Verve Records . The first album in 1999 was “Body Acoustic”, an allusion to the Weather Report title “I Sing the Body Electric”: Pieces from Weather Report are reinterpreted with acoustic instruments, supplemented by Borstlap's own songs. With his group named afterwards "Body Acoustic" he played on "Verve Nights" for example. B. at the jazz festivals of Umbria, Berlin or the North Sea Jazz Festival. In 2003 he was commissioned by the Emir of Qatar to compose an opera "Ibn Sina" ( Avicenna ) on Arabic history, which was then premiered in Qatar.

So far he has worked a. a. together with Roy Hargrove , Jimmy Haslip (on “LiveLine” 2000), Les Paul , James Genus , Han Bennink (as a trio partner with Ernst Glerum ), Ernst Reijseger , Hans Dulfer , Eric Vloeimans , Toots Thielemans , Jesse van Ruller , Ernie Watts , Bill Bruford , Jon Hendricks , Chris Beckers and Gino Vannelli . In 2004 he went on tour with the Dutch singer Edsilia Rombley and from 2000 played a lot with the pop singer Trijntje Oosterhuis .

In 2000 he recorded a solo CD ("Piano Solo Standards"). "Gramercy Park" followed in 2001, three CDs, some of them from worldwide live recordings, on which he demonstrates his entire range: Solo on piano with his own pieces, jazz standards such as Body and Soul and Dolphin Dance and a Scerzo by Chopin, as second in various trios a. a. with Jeff Tain Watts and Essiet Okon Essiet (and with the Dutch stand-up comedian Hans Teeuwen), the third “Temple of Dance” with dance music compiled by DJ Roland Molendijk, which was also released as a single ( Theo van Gogh shot the video ).

In 2005 he founded his own record label "Gramercy Park Music".

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personal data
SURNAME	Borstlap, Michiel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague

[NLcharts-1] Album placements in the Dutch charts