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Amersfoort World Jazz Festival presents exceptional endorsed talent Chi. Siu Tin Chi is a pianist and composer from Macau, who settled in Rotterdam after wandering through Hong Kong and New York. She is trained as a classical pianist and in that capacity has extensive work experience in the classical and theater world, with tours through […]

Amersfoort World Jazz Festival presents plans for 44th edition Amersfoort World Jazz Festival will take place this year from 15 to 20 August. The festival offers an adventurous program of more than 80 concerts on the indoor and outdoor stages in the historic city center. This year the concerts at the Lieve Vrouwekerkhof are dedicated

Chi voted endorsed talent 2023 Every year, Amersfoort World Jazz selects a talented young artist who will be featured during the festival and will have the opportunity to perform with a variety of musicians and projects. The pianist and composer Siu Tin Chi from Macau (Hong Kong) was elected this year. Chi’s compositions are inspired

Jef Neve International Artist in Residence Flemish jazz pianist Jef Neve is our International Artist in Residence this edition. Composer/pianist Jef Neve, born in 1977, has quickly grown into a prominent Belgian musician with a growing international reputation. During Amersfoort World Jazz he plays at various times and stages. Among other things, he presents his

Beste fan van Amersfoort World Jazz, Elf dagen lang was het een feest, meer dan honderd concerten, gemiddelde temperatuur van 35 graden en meer dan 600 musici verspreid over de Observant, Lieve Vrouwekerkhof, KOSMIK, FLUOR, Elleboogkerk, St. Aegtenkapel en de Miles. We willen crew, vrijwilligers, artiesten, en bovenal jullie bedanken voor jullie komst. 

”Jazz is not a history museum, it should be music of the future” A multitude of festivals recently returned from the pandemic wasteland as the world of live music played catch-up from over two years of interruptions, but few comebacks in the busy summer of 2022 were as uniformly strong as the full reopening of

The Professional Association of Improvising Musicians (BIM) exists 50 years! The BIM, once the founders of the BIMHUIS, has been committed to the interests of jazz and improvised music in the Netherlands since 1971. It does this by, for example, facilitating more playgrounds and fighting for better conditions for musicians. In collaboration with Sena Performers,

Dag 5! Zelfs een 11 daags festival lijkt voorbij de vliegen! Vandaag voegden we locatie FLUOR toe met een prachtig programma, K.O.Brass, Pony Machine en Dutch Jazz Collective! Het programma werd aangevuld in de Observant met @molino Wolf Martini, Joost Zoeteman en Teus Nobel! Ook in Café Miles klonken de klanken door met een te

It promises to be a very warm edition of the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. Especially on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, we ask our visitors to the program at the Lieve Vrouwekerkhof to be extra alert to this. Due to the sightlines, we cannot place umbrellas on the World Jazz Terrace. We have some tips. Wear

Tip: Sylwester Ostrowski & The Jazz Brigade ft. Essien Okon Essiet An extra special addition to the program of Amersfoort World Jazz Festival this year can be experienced on Thursday evening at the Lieve Vrouwekerkhof. The Jazz Brigade led by the Polish saxophonist Sylwester Ostrowski can safely be called a super group; joining the ranks are