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In 2021, Lucas Santana was an Exceptional Endorsed Talent of the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. What has happened in the meantime? We asked Lucas: Lucas in 2021 you were the Endorsed Exceptional Talent. What was your best concert? We played many good concerts, but the concert in the Amersfoort World Jazz was great, but also […]

Let’s introduce KOSMIK! We are more than happy to work with the production house of Amersfoort: KOSMIK! KOSMIK is the breeding ground where young talent is guided on and to the stage by an enthusiastic team. Together we create inspiring productions, such as KOSMIK Sessions (2021), What Night?! (2022) or COCOON in the St. George’s

A small compilation of the Dutch Jazz Legends, an important program line for us. We think it is important to honor Dutch jazz heroes. To give pioneers of the (Dutch) jazz tradition a stage. It is interesting to see how these musicians develop, but also guide and take along young musicians. Jazz music is therefore

A review by Sunil Sampat, a journalist who reviewed our festival last summer. The article was published in On Stage magazine (National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA)) in Mumbai.

https://www.citizenjazz.com/Amersfoort-Jazz-Festival-un-air-de-paradis.html

Thapelo Khumisi is a pianist from South Africa, he is a Endorsed Exceptional Talent. Last year, he performed at the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. What was your experience during the festival? Ah, it was refreshing and great listening to all the wonderful jazz musicians from different walks of life. I had the opportunity to play

In addition to being a singer, composer and lyricist, Fleurine is also chairman of the BiMpro, the union for jazz musicians in the Netherlands. In 2021, the BIM celebrated their anniversary during the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. Last year we offered a stage for Women in Jazz. Why is/was Women in Jazz so important? Can

How were the performances during the festival? The duo performance that I gave with Timothy Banchet was very intimate in terms of setting. It suited the location well and the audience was listening intently from start to finish. We have put together our repertoire especially for Jazz en Route and wanted to seek adventure in

Meet the Team! Floor Visser does the production at the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. She was born and raised in Amersfoort. I have been doing production since 2007. I started as a volunteer at the festival in 2006. At the time we were 8 volunteers. On Friday evening Alexander told us what we were going