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Philipp Rüttgers North Sea Jazz Compositieopdracht 2018 at North Sea Jazz Festival
Courtesy of Philipp Rüttgers | Posted on June 21, 2018
Where
North Sea Jazz Festival
Ahoyweg 10
Rotterdam
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When
Fri, July 13, 2018
17:15
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About
Composition Assignment Fairy tales put to music
Every year the North Sea Jazz Festival commissions a promising Dutch jazz composer to write a free composition. In 2018, the honour goes to pianist and composer Philipp Rüttgers.
Philipp Rüttgers (1981) studied piano at the Arnhem ArtEZ Conservatorium, where he also teaches. Rüttgers is bandleader of the Phat Cool Bigband, the KAMA Quartet, and the successful formation Phil’s Music Laboratory, with which he performed at the festival in 2016. Rüttgers is seen as a musical explorer who plays and writes music in an unconventional, surprising and perceptive way, continuously taking new musical paths....