Christiaan de Jong Ensemble
ENGLISH:
"I have played many styles of music, from
renaisance to post serialism, from tango and flamenco to jazz, from minimalism to new
complexity. I love the music of John Dowland, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Elliott Carter, O.
Messiaen, Frank Zappa, Paco de Lucía, Steve Vai, Anton Webern, Astor Piazzola, Pink
Floyd, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Jimmi Hendrix, Willem Breuker, K. Stockhausen, E.
Varèse, I. Stravinsky, ...
My composing and improvising is a result of
being in touch with all these musics, nature, citylife, other cultural events, politics
and life in general."
The Christiaan de Jong Ensemble is a concept of
a group, playing mainly my own compositions, with most of the time improvisation
involved, with musicians from different fields of music with whom I share this broad
interest, and can vary from a duo to a chamber ensemble to a jazz quartet. "
SPANISH:
"He estudiado y tocado muchos estilos de
música: barroca-nueva complejida-minimalismo-pos serialismo, jazz, flamenco tango,
música hindú. Me gustan mucho:John Dowland, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Elliott Carter, O.
Messiaen, Charlie Parker, Frank Zappa, Paco de Lucía, Anton Webern, Astor Piazzola,
Pink Floyd, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Jimmi Hendrix, Willem Breuker, E. Varèse, K.
Stockhausen, I. Stravinsky, ...
Mi componer y tocar es un resultado de estar en
contacto con todas estas músicas, la cultura en general, la politica y la vida cotidiana.
El Christiaan de Jong Ensemble es un conjunto
variable tocando mis composiciones o las de los compañeros o "improvisación
libre" y puede ser un duo, una orquesta de camara hasta un grupo de jazz
contemporáneo"
duos / trios
1.Duo Christiaan de Jong & Mike Svoboda (trombone)
(improvisation and own pieces)
2. Duo Christiaan de Jong & Wiek Hijmans (electric guitar)
(improvisation and own pieces)
3.Trio Christiaan de Jong & Pierre Levy (saxophones) & Toni
Meler drums (jazz, contemporary) **
4. Duo Christiaan de Jong & Robert Dick (flutes)(improvisation and
and own pieces) **
5. Duo Christiaan de Jong & Ernesto Briceño (violin, electronics,
percussion) (jazz/flamencojazz, own pieces) **
6. Duo Christiaan de Jong & Sadahiro Otani (guitar) (classical, all
periods, special project: Haikus) **
7. Trío Christiaan de Jong & Toni Meler (percussion) & Rafael
Esteve (jazz, contemporary) **
8 Duo Christiaan de Jong & Garth Knox (viola) (contemporary
improvisation and own pieces)
9.Duo Christiaan de Jong & Oene van Geel
(violin/viola/percussion) improvisation / jazz**
= demo availible |
| special
projects "Pintura en
Acción"
Action painting / concert with painter Leo de Jong involved
"Folklore from Nowhere", jazzy
compositons by Christiaan de Jong, quartet with violin, saxophone or trumpet, electric
guitar and percussion (Globus), or in duo with violinist Oene van Geel
"The New Rock Experience" atonal
heavy metalical composiciones (electric guitar, bass, recorderduo , drums)---2005 - 2006
Christiaan de Jong New JazzQtet original
composed music with improvisational elements, for el. bass, flute with effect pedals,
electronics, piano and drums (2006 - 2007
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musicians who have collaborated in the past or will collaborate in the next future:
Harry
Sparnaay: bass clarinet
Mike Svoboda trombone
Wiek
Hijmans electric guitar
Luc
Houtkamp, Jorrit Dijkstra sax
and electronics
Marta Fiol, Carmen Sanchez soprano
Frances Marie Uitti, Paul Stouthamer,
Michael Babinchak, Sandrine Robillard violoncello
Eric Rynes, Néstor Eidler, Oene
van Geel violin
Bernat Bailbé organ
Riccardo Massari Spiritini
DJ, live electronics,
Ananda Sukarlan, Josep María Balanyà,
Ralph van Raat: piano
Rafael Esteve, Corrado Canonici double bass
Robert Dick flutes
Pierre Levy, Liba Vilavecchia,
saxophone
Toni Meler, Ángel Perreira:
percussion, drums
Michael Benedik, Javier Olondo, Sadahiro Otani: guitar
Xu Fengxia: guzheng,
voice
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