About Me
Born in Rome 1970, after studies in Italy at Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio (Rome) and Perugia & Liege' Conservatories, Jan has been playing several years with the Back to Normal Big Band and Koba (Baudouin de Jaer, el b; Janek Kowalski, dr; Jean-Yves Evrard, guit)....Based in Brussels since 1991, he has has been playing with Abdo Dagher, Kaat de Windt, Sonic Youth, Michel Hatzigeourgiou, Veronique Delmelle, Mirko Banovic, Steve Lacy, Emmanuel Louis, Maxime Lenssens, Pascal Rousseau, Michel Marissiaux, Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Garrett List, Laurent Blondiau, Antoine Prawerman, Tuur Florizoone, Riad abdel Gawad, Arno, Cécile Broché, Gilles Coronado, Maxime Lenssens, Michel Marissiaux, Nicolas Ankoudinoff, Bart Maris, Jean Derome, Isnelle Da Silveira, Hanna Bardos, Mathieu Ha, Yves Mora, Marc Galo, Frederic Rzewski, Angelo Schiavi, Mauro Verrone, Daniele Tittarelli, Luca Rizzo, Quentin Manfroy, Xavier Roger, Marc Galo, Anne Genen, Kris Defoort, Esthelle Goldfarb, Joel Parmentier, Anthony Braxton, Arne Van Dongen, Francesco Venerucci, Richard Teitelbaum, Alvin Curran, Arnaldo Vacca... and more recently with his own band Danza Quartet (Luc Evens, el b; Hughes Kolp, el g; Renaud Van Hooland, dr), with pianist Fabian Fiorini (Fiorini/Rzewski Duo) and with Garrett List (Gary & the Riffing Society). As a composer, Jan has written a piece for Ictus as well as one for the Flemish Orchestra. He teaches saxophone and solfège at the Institut Rythmique Jaques Dalcroze, but he also has been working with the Cirque des Sons, AREAM (school of musictherapy) and the Maison de la Création, Brussels.
