With VANBINSBERGEN PLAYSTATION Corrie van Binsbergen picks up the threads of her instrumental earlier bands. After twelve years of mainly focusing on projects with literature and composing for large contemporary ensembles, theater and film, the time was ripe for this energetic all-star superband. Like before there are no boundaries, no limiting styles, but her own: energetic, bold and playful. The music an extremely agreeable and happy amalgam of suspenseful antitheses. Like a fan on facebook reacted: This is the most incredible music. Bebop with a modern twist, I am an instant fan! CVB is probably best known as the leader of Corrie en de Brokken and Corrie en de Grote Brokken, the latter 12-member group incorporating pop/rock vocalists in a skewed mélange of jazz, rock, blues, funk, and more. With her quartets CVB4 and CRAM she played on various venues and festivals in Europe, Morocco, The Baltics, Brasil, India and China.

Yonga Sun is a musical chameleon. He is praised for his dynamic, inventive and adventurous drumming. Always on-the-edge and in-the-moment he keeps propelling the music to new levels.
He is more of a powerful percussive colorist than a drummer in the traditional sense. To him music is like a beautifully flowing river. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, never the same, yet always clear. Communication and interaction are key elements in his approach, relying on daring and trust between the musicians. He utilizes an extreme dynamic range on his quest to combine simplicity and virtuosity.

Mete Erker is a saxophone player from Holland.He is renowned for his rich and warm sound, strong drive, and his very personal style and expressive way of playing: a combination of raw energy and lyricism, at times reminiscent of the great jazz tenors of the ’60′s.Throughout the years he’s worked with music masters like Peter Erskine, David Liebman, senegalese master drummer Doudou N’Diaye Rose, southafrican jazz legend Winston Mankunku, and russian piano virtuoso Simon Nabatov. He released 50 albums and toured the world in a variety of settings, ranging from a modern dance choreography by the hungarian Reka Szabo to popular dutch crossover acts like New Cool Collective and Zuco 103.
Currently Mete Erker is working with the Artvark Saxophone Quartet featuring classical soprano Claron McFadden, dutch-impro-group Estafest, his jazztrio Blink, the NUjazzgroup FullDuppleXX, electronic soundwizard Michel Banabila, and off course: the Ruff Sound Quartet.

Boelens has an impressive sound, limber as a gymnast possessed of unbridled musical imagination. Miguel is a musical centipede. In all styles, he feels at home, and he remains himself. Miguel was in 2006. Young VIP (MCN); Since 1998 member of Dimami, toured with this trio Anton Goudsmit and Mete Erker and made with this trio five CDs. Miguel played with Dimami, Seven Eleven, Bob Color, Zapp String Quartet, Lavalu, East Wind, Cubob City BigBand, Contraband, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Eric van de Westen, Hans Dulfer, Loet van der Lee, Dodge, the 8baan, Martin Fondse Oktemble, Frank Sinatra Group drumbassadors, the Groove Troopers, Raise the Roof !, New Cool Collective, Cuby & the Blizzards, Beam and Markus Stockhausen, Young Sinatras, the Centimeters, Thijs van Leer, Bart van Dongen, Tango Orchestra Zarate, Beef !, Tejater Teneeter, the New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra, Efterklang, Paco's project, the Jazzinvaders, Efterklang, Blink !, Racoon, Corrie van Binsbergen Gare du Nord eva Miguel since 2010 professor and ensemble coach at ArtEZ, the Arnhem Conservatory where he himself graduated in 1996. Another branch in Miguel's career has been composing and producing music for film and theater. The skills Miguel has gained in a period in which he was a full-time composer and producer of national and international music productions for radio and TV. Stella Den Haag, he composed together with Marielle Woltring two productions: "Werner eats his shoe on" and "Nobody knows ....". International production (KRO, Ketnet and TV3 Catalunia) Picnic with Cake, an animated series based on the book by Thé Tjong King, Miguel composed all 13 episodes in a different style to suit the particular animal head. The series won the Cinekid Kinderkast Fiction - Jury Prize in 2013 and is broadcast in eight countries. The beautiful stop-motion animation film Day Mr. de Vries, directed by Mascha Halberstad, is a great success and touches each viewer through the beautiful story and the music that hits just the right note.

Morris Kliphuis (1986) is an improvising hornist, composer and arranger. His energetic and melodious playing is in high demand, both in his native country of the Netherlands and abroad. As the horn does not have much of a tradition outside the classical world, he has developed a distinctively personal style in which the warm, melancholy sound of the horn takes center stage.
Morris started out playing classical music at the age of eight, but could never resist improvising. After a year of studying classical composition in The Hague, he studied jazz horn at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He also spent a semester at Purchase College, New York, where he studied with jazz horn great, John Clark. Morris won the Princess Christina Jazz Competition in 2006, and recieved the Keep an Eye Jazz Award 2009 for best soloist.
With Timon Koomen (guitar) and Remco Menting (drums) he started Kapok in 2012, a trio that plays energetic music in between jazz, impro, and indie. Kapok released two acclaimed albums, Flatlands (2012) and Kapok(2014), and won the Dutch Jazz Competition in 2012, the European Jazz Competition in 2013 and the Edison Jazz People’s Choice Award in 2014.
As a composer, Morris has worked in many different settings, ranging from solo bassoon to full orchestra. For the Ragazze String Quartet, he wrote the music theatre piece FoodLifeCrisis, incorporating improvisation, repeated patterns, and household objects. His piece Plaint for piano solo, based on the blues, was recorded and published by Donemus. The Prisma String Trio commissioned the 12-minute piece Space Opera, which was recorded on their cd Voyage. Other compositions are regularly performed by jazz ensembles Windkracht 7 and the New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra.
Morris is an active player on the international scene, working in diverse settings. He has performed with the New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra, the Kyteman Orchestra, Windkracht 7, Orlando, and Berlin-based contemporary/pop ensemble stargaze. As a member of this group he has performed all over Europe with, among many others, Villagers, Matthew Herbert, Nils Frahm, Julia Holter and Bill Frisell.

joost buis (badhoevedorp 1966) through euphonium and trombone lessons in music school, 10 years in the local postmen brassband, playing bass guitar in the school band and most of all some years of improvisation workshops in his hometown, trombonist and composer joost buis ended up playing improvised music.
he studied classical trombone and music theory on the arnhem conservatory. in 2000 he had lessons from trombonist roswell rudd.
joost buis organised a number of projects under his own name: the (big) buisband, suite wasserfarben (music for the opening of a joseph beuys exposition), the buiscomplex (a 20-piece orchestra), the brummelodics, and the trio snap, crackle & pop.
at the moment he is active with three groups: astronotes, the joost buis tentet (following a composition assignment for the 2006 north sea jazzfestival) and sliphorn (a quartet with paul pallesen, ernst glerum and han bennink). in 2003 he released an astronotes cd with which was very well received. in 2006 astronotes toured canada. joost buis played with the following groups/projects: the guus janssen septet, corrie en de brokken, the willem breuker collective, sean bergin & mob, palinckx, de operas noach en hier° of guus janssen, the new cool collective bigband (benjamin herman), the ab baars quartet, krang, the ex orkest, theatre projects with companies orkater, 't barre land en bonheur, bite the gnatze (paul pallesen) and a series of literary concerts of corrie van binsbergen (with toon tellegen, remco campert and kees van kooten).
he occasionally played with michael moore, misha mengelberg (icp), george lewis, jeb bishop and roswell rudd.
since a couple of years joost buis plays the lap steel guitar as a second instrument in several groups.
in 2007 joost buis was the curator of the european trytone festival

Corrie van Binsbergen (CVB) guitarist, composer, director Stichting Brokken CVB has a very broad musical background which can be heard in her music. She developed her own characteristic style in playing as well as composing. It’s a synthesis of jazz, rock, composed and improvised music.
In 1999 CVB received the VPRO/Boy Edgar Prize (the most prestigious award in Dutch jazz- and improvised music) for her creativity, craftsmanship and versatility. In 2012 she was nominated for theAmsterdam Art Prize in the category proven quality.
CVB founded the Stichting Brokken in 1996 realising productions where she brings together different musical styles or artforms for a far broader public than only jazz reaches. With Corrie en de Grote Brokken she incorporated pop/rock vocalists in a skewed mélange of jazz, rock, blues, funk, and more. And with Writers in Concert she brings together music and literature in a unique way. With her quartets CVB4 and CRAM she played on various venues and festivals in Europe, Morocco, The Baltics, Brasil, India and China.
Corrie received numerous commissions for a.o. Dutch radio and TV, Filmmuseum, Holland Festival, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Mondriaan String Quartet, Zapp String Quartet, Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Radio Symphony Orchestra, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble & Barbara Hannigan.

Albert van Veenendaal (The Netherlands, 1956) studied piano at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In his career he has been working with many national and international jazz-, world- and classical musicians throughout Europe. He founded various groups of his own and played solo concerts. He composed for and accompanied theatre- and dance companies and works as composer/arranger/producer. Van Veenendaal teaches composition and piano at the Utrecht conservatory (department musician 3.0) and is advisor composition for Performing Arts Fund, the main foundation for creative art in Holland. During the past years Albert van Veenendaal toured the Dutch theatres with his own groups, like "Pavlov" (presenting a project round and about Sinatra), his (piano) trio Veenendaal/Kneer/Sun, Spoon3 1 Fork (songs, improv & electronica). In 2001 he founded "Travelling Light", a platform for pianists to play together. In various Travelling Light projects he played with e.g. Rob van den Broeck, Cor Fuhler, Jozef Dumoulin and Sylvie Courvoisier. He won the Dutch Jazz Competition of 2001 with his trio "On the Line" and organized 15 editions of the multidisciplinary festival:The Evening of the Longest/Shortest Night. Van Veenendaal takes part in an ongoing series of literary concerts around well known Dutch writers. With bass player Meinrad Kneer he founded Evil Rabbit Records, a label for contemporary improvised music. His compositional works are supported by the Performing Arts Fund – a trust for creative music. Recently he has been composing for Calefax reed quintet (featuring Eric Vloeimans), The Amstel Saxophone Quartet, pianist Marcel Worms and 'Bigtet' Tetzepi, featuring Louis Sclavis. The music/soundscape he created for the film 'Film Earth' was nominated for a "gouden kalf", the most important Dutch Award for film. Albert van Veenendaal refers to himself as 'pictorial musician' because of the epical and cinematic character of his music. Improvisation and composition go hand in hand and merge seamlessly. With an open approach and interaction with his fellow musicians he creates musical constructions that are unconventional and intuitive, displaying his unique style that will instantly be recognized. It is important to me to make music without having appointed ideas in advance about how the music is supposed to sound. What I call 'pictorial music' is about passion, risk and skill, not to forget the musician's personality. The intensity of a good concert is like balancing on the edge of a razor blade. I try therefore to approach every concert like a painter will approach his empty canvas. To start from scratch every time and to give myself up into the attempt remains endlessly captivating to me. In his project 'Minimal Damage' Van Veenendaal engages in expanding the sound of a grand piano by preparing it accordingly. At the same time he is interested in collaborating with other art forms such as film, dance and pictorial art.

I studied double bass at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and graduated in 1999.
At this moment I’m part of the following groups: Dimami, De Bende van Drie,HOT, VANBINSBERGENPLAYSTATION, De Algehele, The Chronometers Orchestra, Talking Cowsand Timon Koomen’s 4tet. Rehearsing, playing, talking, thinking and composing are the creative and practical activities that fill a large part of my time.
But since you’re here now, I’m happy to give you some of the highlights:

• De Bende van Drie is working on a performance called Men on Wire. Onno van Swigchem composed music and Miranda van der Spek made video’s. Putting them together is a kind of magic.
• In 2012, Talking Cows released their critically acclaimed CD Almost Human.
• 2011 Dimami released their collabaration-cd with trombone player Joost Buis and played at 12 jazz venues in The Netherlands.
• In 2011 I was Musician in Recidence at JIN in Nijmegen.
• With Spinifex I toured through India in 2011 & 2012
• In 2007 I was Artist in Residence at SJU in Utrecht
• In 2006, Dimami took part in The Young VIPs Tour with, among others, Anton Goudsmit of the New Cool Collective and in 2015 the band is celebrating it’s 15th anniversary!

In 2006 I took part in the Oostpool Theatre Group production of Brel, featuring Jeroen Willems in the title role. In 2007 I played in the musical theatre production Pushkin Paradise, also by Oostpool and in 2009 participated in the dance performance Ghost Note by Station Zuid.
Because my musical path has brought me to quite some places en and connected me to a lot of musician I’d like to mention a few: Vera Westera, Caroline Lobanov, Mischa van der Wekken, Anton Goudsmit, Ernst Glerum, Friedmar Hitzer, Pieter Klaassen and Oleg Fateev.
As a teacher I’m coaching and conducting two amateur groups: Donderd’s Band and Jazzmée. I give workshop in several cities in The Netherlands. At ArtEZ I teach double bass since March 2014. The best introduction I can give you is by showing myself.