Reinier Baas

About Reinier Baas

Reinier Baas is known as a master guitarist, but also as a surprising composer. In his repetoire: the surrealist opera ‘Reinier Baas vs. Princess Discombobulatrix’, for which he collaborated with soprano Nora Fischer and cartoonist Typex, or the album ‘Mokum in Hi-Fi’, an ode to Amsterdam, created with saxophonist Ben van Gelder. Reinier has appeared as a soloist in the Metropole Orkest, the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw and the WDR Big Band. He has written a symphonic work for the Pynarello orchestra, and is currently active as a guitarist in the punk-jazz group Bughouse together with Benjamin Herman and in a trio with Ben van Gelder and Han Bennink.

Close Distance

How do you perform music in a time when experiencing things together is almost impossible? During the COVID-19 pandemic, we invited creators to seek answers to this question. For Close Distance, Reinier’s presents ‘Relief Party’: “A hopeful preview of a future where social promiscuity and physical closeness are once again possible, and this is lavishly celebrated.”

Close Distance was made possible with help of Ammodo Art.