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Barend ‘Bernardo’ Schipper, pianist, vocalist and composer

worked as piano soloist and composer with the radio jazz symphony Metropole Orchestra at age 21, studied jazz with the New York pianist Bela Lakatos in Hungary, and also classical music. His mother, born in Curacao, the Dutch Caribbean, received her piano lessons from the national composer of classical and dance music of Curacao Sjon ‘Coco’ Palm. So, from early childhood on, Barend heard the joyous piano and dance music of the Caribbean.

With current national classical composer of Curacao Wim Statius Muller Barend shared his passion for composition and piano playing. On the one hand mr. Statius Muller introduced Barend to numerous of his new and beautiful ‘Antillean Dances’. It stimulated Barend’s appetite to also compose Caribbean music himself. On the other hand Barend coached mr. Statius Muller in preparation of his classical concerts in Amsterdam and a CD recording. 

Barend Schipper composes the music for the trio. He studied composition in Brussels, Amsterdam, Helsinki and Budapest.

 

Bert van Erk, double bass player, played in Senegal African music with Souleymane Faye, Africando and Ngaari Laaw. In Utrecht and Amsterdam he played jazz with Slide Hampton, Boy Edgar Big Band, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Stan Tracey. He performed for queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on more than one occasion.

 

Enrique “Choco” Ramirez Q, Afro Latin American percussionist, born in Alajuela, Costa Rica,  studied percussion at the university of music in Costa Rica, (Escuela de Musica de la Universidad Nacional, departamento de percusión afrolatina.) He played with famous percussionists of his country and Cuba. He played with Costarican composers such as Maria Pretiz, Rodrigo Leiton, Jose Calderon, Jose Ma. Allan Mora and Tito Amaya. Since 1995 Ramirez lives in the Netherlands. He is a percussionist teacher at the Music school of Groningen and gives workshops at schools. He played with a.o. Michiel Borstlap, Izaline Calister and made recordings with Jammah Tammah. During a jamsession he played with Roy Cooder’s Buena Vista Social Club when they toured the Netherlands.

 

 

Music samples (all live):

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XšCha Bond

07:01 min. / 6,42 MB / MP3

 

XšTanzon

09:35 min. / 8,78 MB / MP3

 

XšTabu

06:28 min. / 6,60 MB / MP3

 

XšCuba

02:10 min. / 1,98 MB / MP3

 

XšChinese Tiger Dancing featuring Jan Prins, flutist

01:21 min. / 1,23 MB / MP3

 

 

 

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