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HKU Bigband

Two dazzling big band concerts

  • 03/12
  • 04/12
Say big band, and you might think of jazz, swing, brass, the thirties and fourties, and famous big band leaders such as Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller. Jazz & Pop students of HKU Bigband play the classics, along with their own work. The ultimate swinging introduction to the rich big band genre.
  • 03 Dec 2022 - 04 Dec 2022
  • Het Wilde Westen
  • DUMS
HKU Bigband, founded ten years ago by enthusiastic Jazz & Pop students, does several concert series per year, often with national or international guest soloists. This fall, the guests are saxophone players Marc Scholten and Toon Roos, both teaching at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium. Band leader is Nils van Haften, a great sax player himself who once played with HKU Bigband in Bimhuis.

HKU Bigband plays the favorites of Marc Scholten and Toon Roos and can be heard twice this weekend, on 3 and 4 December:

Saturday 3 December:
Het Wilde Westen, Everard Meijsterlaan 1B, Utrecht
Full-length concert by HKU Bigband
Starts: 20.30
Tickets; Students 5,- / Regular 12,50
https://www.hetwildewesten.nl/agenda

Sunday 4 December:
Torenzaal DUMS, Domplein 4 Utrecht
Fragments of ‘UJazz’s DUMStad Special: BigBang!
Programme starts 14.30, start HKU Bigband 16.15
Free entrance
https://www.ujazz.nl/event/ujazzs-dumstad-special-bigbang/

Lineup
Saxophones: Marc Scholten (a), Prajolan Thapa (a), Isaac Turner (t), Mathilde van der Meij (t), Machiel Haveman (b)
Trumpets: Johan Wienen, Jaap de Vries, Pedro Fontes Jerónimo, Willem Ruijs
Trombones: Rotem Gerad, Dan Bluer, Max Tato, Mathis Kaiser (b)
Rhythm section: Sebastiaan Janse (p), Salle Zijlstra (g), Anosh ter Haar (b), Davide Montagnoli (d)