Martin Hiltawski
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"The Bass is the Base", and Martin found this base when he was 6 years old, because his father used to sing the bass in the opera choir of Bonn, Germany, and his mother used to play Bass-Recorder in a recorder-ensemble.
But after learning to play the bass-recorder, there was first the piano, then the trumpet, and at the age of 15 the bass-guitar, before he made it to the double bass at the age of 17.
Being taught classical stuff by Christopher Meux to fill the low register of the school and the local orchestra of Prüm, his German home-town close to the border of Belgium and Luxembourg, he soon started to play Dixieland, swing & jazz on double bass in local groups,
and Jazzrock, experimental rock & progressive metal with the bass guitar.Finishing school in 2000, he became member of a local pop-coverband called "crossing", which used to play a lot in this region of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium.From 2001 until 2005, he studied Chemistry in Bonn and Mainz, where he played some sessions and joined local artists. Finally, he switched to study Bass guitar and was accepted at the conservatory of Amsterdam in the summer of 2005 where he has been taught bass guitar by Theo de Jong and Double Bass by Ruud Ouwehand.Since then, he used to play with all different kind of people all different styles which exist. To name a few:
Princess Christina Concours with Morris Kliphuis, French horn, Muziekgebouw aan't Ij, Amsterdam Dec.2006
MK Six at the Jazz Festival Bukarest May 2007
North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam 2007 with the Morris Kliphuis group
Alkmaar Sail Festival with Jazzmerize, September 2007He keeps looking for the right groove and sound, no matter what music he plays.
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_______________Rasmus Nissen
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Born and raised in Tønder, a small town in Southern Jutland, Denmark. Rasmus started his musical education when he was ten years old by playing the cornet. After one year he switched to the guitar and got lessons from a classical guitarist, who was very inspiring. Rasmus played all kinds of musical styles and got into jazz rather late. First when he became a member of the " Schleswig-Holstein Youth Jazz Orchestra" in Germany he began to get into all the different directions in jazz. When he moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 2003, he took lessons from Sandra Hempel, a well-known jazz guitarist in the scene. In 2005 he was accepted at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and is right now in his third year. He is a member of the "Hessen Youth Orchestra" in Germany and was on tour with them in Lithuania where they played at the "Klaipeda Jazz Festival". He is engaged in a lot of band projects and is interested in a lot of musical styles. Until know he had lessons and participated in projects and workshops with Arne Jansen, Martijn van Iterson, Maarten van der Grinten, John Scofield, Peter Bernstein, Bert Joris, Erik van Lier, Jiggs Whigham, Joe Gallardo, Jan Wessels, Ken Norris and more.
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_______________Simon Haverkate
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Was born in 1984. He started with piano when he was eight years old. First Classical lessons from Agnes Davids, but after a few months also improvisation from Rob Horsting. It was his classical teacher who brought him to that idea because, he didn't practice his classical etudes but was busy with chords and things like that. In 1996 he was asked to play in the big band of the musicschool. Sitting in a band with people who where much older than him. In these years he also formed his own trio and started playing on regional party's and receptions. For a few years he was asked to play at the Military in Boekelo. A well known international Horse race.
Simon finished his musicschool years in 2002 with a cum laude.In 2001, He participated the Petrof Festival, a regional concours at Schumer Piano Center. He won the first Prize. As a result of that, he got a scholarship to take lessons.From 2002, he took lessons with well known dutch jazz pianist Rob van Bavel.
In 2001,Simon also participated the Prinses Christina Concours in Enschede, which he also did in 2004 in Utrecht.When Simon finished his High school in 2002, he first studied for teacher, but after two years, he decided to go to the Conservatory of Enschede. After one year, he went to the Conservatory of Amsterdam in which he is now in his third year.
During all these years he got lessons from: Rob Horsting, Karel Boehlee, Rob van Bavel, Barry Harris and Garry Dial.
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