French composer and drummer,
he's passionate about the relation between musical writing & improvisation, 
and also about canons & polyrhythms

Bart Maris (BE) : trumpets
Ruben Verbruggen (BE) : saxes, compositions
Thijs Troch (BE) : piano, electronics
Gonçalo Almeida (PT) : double bass
Friso Van Wijck (NL) : percussion

Multi award-winning Parisian pianist, composer and producer Benoit Delbecq figures among the prominent innovators of the international contemporary jazz scene who have build their own singular language in music. He has brought the soul of jazz to John Cage's prepared piano, when The New York Times depicts him as "a brilliant and unconventional French pianist" (Chinen). -- photo by Igor Juget. 
Benoit Delbecq is a founding member of Bureau de Son, a parisian non-profit and label (dStream) for new music.

Tobias Klein (*Saarbrücken, Germany, 1967) moved to Amsterdam in 1990 and studied  saxophone and bass clarinet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with, among others, Jasper Blom and Harry Sparnaay. 
As a performing musician, his focus lies mainly on improvised music and contemporary jazz, enriched by his studies of contemporary composed music, live-electronics and techniques derived from African, Eastern European and Asian music. He currently (co-)leads the groups Spinifex, Lackritz, Maw Sit Sit and the duo Oguz Buyukberber/Tobias Klein.
Tobias composes for both contemporary jazz groups and for chamber music ensembles. His work as a composer is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
In 2010, he was awarded the North Sea Jazz Composition Commission. 
Tobias has toured or recorded with many great musicians such as Jasper Blom, Joost Buis, Oguz Buyukberber, Andrew Claes, Damien Cluzel, Esra Dalfidan, Benoît Delbecq, Marc Ducret, Jozef Dumoulin, Kristina Fuchs, Oene van Geel, Onno Govaert, Mark Haanstra, Sylvia de Hartog, Gerri Jaeger, Gijs Levelt, B.C. Manjunath, Lothar Ohlmeier, Timuçin Sahin, Emmanuel Scarpa, Chris Speed, Jasper Stadhouders, Raphael Vanoli and Teun Verbruggen.  

For many years Stavanger, Norway has produced some of Norway’s most profiled improvisational musicians. 24 of these professional players, ranging from local jazz musicians to the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, have come together under the name Kitchen Orchestra as a musical collective exploring the improvisational relationship between the individual and the ensemble in the context of modern and jazz music. Projects vary in size depending on the composer/ band-leader’s desires from solo pieces to full orchestra.

Past collaborators include Alexander von Schlippenbach, Øyvind Torvund, Inbal Pinto, Evan Parker, Keith Tippet, Trevor Wishart, Reidar Larsen, Svein Tang Wa, Steve Beresford, Dave Kane, Per Zanussi and Lotte Anker. Their wide range of musical ventures and collaborations which can be explored on their website www.kitchenorchestra.com. 2013 offers the release of their collaboration with Alexander von Schlippenbach, a commissioned work with Australian composer Anthony Pateras, a continuation of Kitchen Barokk, and the annual festival What’s Cooking.

Kitchen Orchestra is diverse, flexible and always on the look out for interesting collaborations. If you are interested in collaborating with Kitchen Orchestra and/or interested in hosting a workshop, or booking one of the following projects

For booking/ workshops/ collaborations please contact producer Ashley Stubbert
email: kitchenorchestra@gmail.com


info: www.zenovandenbroek.com
booking: info@zenovandenbroek.com

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