Wilbert Bulsink (1983) writes music for all kind of combinations and situations. He composes concert music and writes for music theatre.  As a performer he is active as a classical piano player, in bands as fSTARand, PumpOrgan and Rosa Ensemble he plays synthesizer and hammond organ. 
As a composer he received commissions from most renown music ensembles in the Netherlands: ASKO|Schönberg, Nieuw Ensemble, Looptail, Rosa Ensemble and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. His works were performed during Gaudeamus Muziekweek, November Music, Holland Festival, the ISCM World Music Days in Ljubljana and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. 
He studied composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Theo Loevendie and Wim Hendrickx. He finished his studies cum laude. In 2005 he was awarded the Jan van Vlijmenprijs and in 2009 and 2010 his compositions were selected for the BUMA Toonzetters Award. In 2015 he was composer in focus at the November Music Festival in Den Bosch where Quatuor Diotima premiered his first string quartet. In 2023 his composition Smashing Mirrors was recommended for broadcast by the 69th International Rostrum of Composers.
As composer and performer Wilbert is involved in different initiatives and networks for innovative performance practice. He is a member of Monoták, an Amsterdam-based collective of composers and improvisors which organizes concerts and events with challenging combinations and themes. He is part of Splendor Amsterdam, a group of musicians who turned an old bath house into a centre for experimental and classical chamber music. 

Wilbert is Professor of Composition at the ArtEZ Conservatory in Zwolle.

Brief list of works

Fernorchester for ensemble, 2023
Smashing Mirrors for ensemble, 2023
Possibilities Incomplete (Modules for Modelo62) for ensemble, 2021
Tijdlijnmuziek (Amsterdam 1621-2021), for trio, 2021
De Thuisreiziger, music theatre in your house during a lockdown, 2021 
Struikelgevaar, for barrel organ and ensemble, 2019
Spelingen: for harp and ensemble, 2019
Oorspel, music for audience that closes and opens their ears, 3 musicians and overheadprojector, 2019
Spelingen: for harp and orchestra, 2018
meanwhile, behind, between, etcetera: for ensemble, 2016
Baganachram: for flute violin, harpsichord and violoncello, 2016
Groeven: for piano, 2016
String Quartet, 2015
voordat...: for harp, 2013
Dust Storm (as seen from inside an office building): for ensemble, 2012
Book for Strings and Slides: for string quintet and 2 trombones, 2011
Vision and Labyrinth: for cello solo, 2010
Koranfragment: for orchestra 2009
Op/Weg...geblazen: for air piano and ensemble, 2008
Juggling/Jong leren: for percussion, 2008
Invention on Chaos: for piano, 2006

Bart de Vrees (1974)
Studied composition and classical percussion at the conservatory of Amsterdam.
Wrote for ensembles and festival such as: Schoenberg ensemble, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Slagwerk den Haag, Nieuw Ensemble, Asko Ensemble, Collegium Novum Zurich, Worldbrass, Utrecht String quartet, Modelo62, Aurelia saxophone quartet, Soil Ensemble, Adapter Ensemble, Insomnio, Ensemble Cameleon, De IJ-salon, Insomnio Ensemble, Yo! opera, Musiscoop, Holland Festival, Gaudeamusweek and November Music.

 f★ and... are three befriended multi-talents, knowing each other since they studied composition... years later they decided to join their versatile forces. Now they conjure a quirky, theatrical treat of sound and meaning: blending F's intoxicating vocals, B's rousing thwacks and beats and W's lucid yet distorted synth sounds.

"Mikael Szafirowski, "was" is a guitar player originally from Finnish origin concerned with feeding feedback and deconstructing deconstruction.


PUMPORGAN

Mikael Szafirowsky- guitar, bass guitar, vocals, Wilbert Bulsink- hammond organ, vocals, Christian Ferlaino - baritone sax, Dirk Bruinsma- alto sax, bass guitar, vocals, compositions, Nout Ingen Housz - drums, percussion, vocals. 

Ever played a pump organ? Playing it is a rather intense job. You have to keep pumping the air whilst trying to impress with musical stunts. Well, this is even more the case with playing in the band Pumporgan! We call our music Psychojive, which means keeping the pulse pumping whilst playing musical constructions that make your brain ache. Your body wants to move while your brain is short-circuiting. It's the new therapy for lethargy! And Pumporgan is ready for mass treatment.


Pumporgan is a band erected in 2011 playing a blend of stompin' jive music with dissonant art rock and free jazz. Imagine where rock 'n roll and rhythm and blues would have ended up if it had evolved in a progressive way and still had kept it's rough and edgy sound. The music is wild, fast and overwhelming, pushing the players to their limits. The group leads you through crazy architecture where one would easily go astray. 
A large part of the repertoire has been written as a composition commission for the North Sea Jazz festival edition 2011. With the latest line up we first played in dec. 2011 at TryTone in Amsterdam. Fall 2012 we did a double bill with the Norwegian group Elephant9 playing concerts in clubs around the Netherlands.  And we played the Rumor festival dec 2012 sharing the bill with The Ex. 2013 we played a show with dancers at OT301, at the Houtfestival in Haarlem and opening the season at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam. 
Our Cd 'Make with the Feet' came out in 2016 on the Trytone label.

Florian de Backere is a composer, actor,  dramatist and song-writer, based in the Netherlands.

	The other day, i was going through all the music that i recorded over the last 10 years, and realized that most of it is leading a pretty anonymous life in the backstreets of my hard-disc. Perhaps naturally more inclined to dwell in a hermit-like music-bubble, i still decided to join the rest of humanity in its virtual venting, and occasionally spill some of my handy-work on the web. Reasons for recording all this may vary from coming up with material for bands to play, to finishing commission-deadlines when desperately in need of some money, and from collaborating with stubborn theater-makers, to just being bored, drunk, or simply inspired to make a small difference. Unable to ever really specialize genre-wise, there seems to be something consistent in my 'oeuvre', no matter how hard i try to re-invent myself. To get a bit auto-analytical: I like my melodies whistlable, my harmonies ambiguous, my rhythms unfit to dance to, and my general mood slightly infused with the notion we have to die one day. And i like things kept simple. Although the more i try to follow a straight road to whatever goal, the more i seem to get lost in all kinds of unneccesary detours...

At this page you'll find some music of my latest projects.
For almost thirty years I'm active as a musician/composer.
Some of my older groups; Blast, Otolithen, Office-R, Brown vs Brown a.o.
I have released over a twenty CD's on labels as Cuneiform, ReRmegacorp, AMFrecords, +3Db and others...
here you can hear some more music;
www.blast5tet.nl
www.brownvsbrown.com
www.myspace.com/DirkBruinsma
www.dirkbruinsma.bandcamp.com

hope you'll like some...

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