Wed 7 December 2022
Winner Boy Edgarprijs 2022: Ronald Snijders
The Boy Edgar Prize, the most important reward in the Netherlands in the field of jazz and improvised music, is awarded this year to flutist and composer Ronald Snijders.
with group of friends, yoràn vroom presents his own work from his albums ‘across a spectrum’ (2021) and ‘a forgotten story’ (2023). the music of ‘across a spectrum’ is mainly about the richness of caribbean culture, which the musicians give their own take on with collective improvisation as the common denominator.
the second album ‘a forgotten story’, is the live album of vrooms' reflex project, the concert series of our bimhuis productions department where musicians present their take on the current zeitgeist. the virtuoso drummer called together family and friends to reflect on the covid years. vroom took the perspective of ‘a history student from the next century, relying on backward sources’. together with four percussionists and two dancers, among others, he told a story of dizzying repetition, hope and losing it. now vroom presents a combination of both albums with his group of friends, five virtuoso musicians that vroom loves to play with. special guest is mehdi nassouli, the internationally acclaimed moroccan singer and player of the stringed instrument guembri.