​​I grew up in a musical household with two older brothers, listening to mostly rock orienteded music and (English) brassband music.
As a result, me and my brothers were playing two different instruments. My brothers keys/trombone and guitar/tuba and I chose the bassguitar and euphonium (tenor tuba).
After playing in the National Youth Wind Orchestra for a couple of years playing challenging pieces (Sjostakovitsj, Mahler, Barber etc.), I quit playing euphonium. During that time I started at the conservatory Groningen studying bassguitar where I graduated in 1998.
​Thanks to the VSB scholarship I also had the chance to study in New York with the great John Patitucci and Lincoln Goines.
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Since then, my playing field is in theatre music productions, orchestras, musical productions and with a wide variety of Dutch artists on album/single recordings, concerts, events, radio- and TV shows.
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