March 2008 Dutch voice artist Greetje Bijma celebrated 25 years on stage at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. On that evening she played with fellow Boy Edgar Prize winner Michiel Braam for the first time, and they decided to co-lead a sextet around 2011., also doing occasional duo performances. As of 2016 Greetje and Michiel form a regular duo, improvising freely and based on the Japanese epigrams by Lucebert and other poems, as well as playing plain songs, including Benjamin Britten's "Last Rose Of Summer", Abbey Lincoln's "Caged Bird", "Throw It Away" and "Bird Alone" and several jazz standards such as "Stormy Weather".
In their music both musicians's idiosyncratisies are profoundly present and in dialog with each other. Greetje has been active as an improvising vocalist ever since the beginning of the eighties. With her souple voice and theatrical qualities, she is well known as an intriguing artist, her popularity reaching far beyond the jazz circuit. Michiel comes from another world and has developed his own style of playing based on a firm basis of jazz music in many forms, adding all kinds of elements to that without restraint.
This duo is a truly unique mix of those two distinctive voices, resulting in scrumptious and intriguing concerts.
 
Musicians
Greetje Bijma voice, Michiel Braam piano