Jazz Saxophone/Woodwind
I think the best thing about studying at KCB is that there are a lot of meta elements here: you can play anything you want and the jazz professors will give you the best advice to support the type music you want to play. This is how I was able to fully develop my music style.
Teaching Staff
Jeroen Van Herzeele
Jeroen Van Herzeele had the opportunity to perform jazz standards at an early age on stage considering that his father was a musician too. After a short study of classic saxophone, he dedicated his life to jazz music and started attending workshops and seminars, in the meanwhile following courses at the Jazzstudio in Antwerp.
Jeroen soon started exploring other forms of music (free jazz, rock, blues, soul, gospel,...), elements clearly present on Gratitude Trio recordings. He found his own sound on the instrument, intimate, spiritual and instinctive, a sound in accordance with his soul. He is constantly perfecting the jazz language, seeking the experiment in a soulful confrontation with the challenges of a changing world.
He likes to let his far out improvisations being carried on a city jungle beat, modern dance rhythms, without losing his acoustic power, breath.
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Bruno Vansina
Vansina [...] manifests himself as an ardent and agile alto saxophonist who plays compelling solos and draws angular lines. Though he is able to play a dragging ballad subtly and eloquently. (c) De Standaard 2012.
Saxophonist Bruno Vansina studied in Antwerp, The Hague and Brussels with among others Bart Defoort and John Ruocco. In 2003 he won the Prize for Best Soloist at the Breda Jazz Competition, part of the Frederik Leroux Quintet.
Vansina is perhaps best known in his own country for his work with the big band Flat Earth Society (FES). He is active in groups like Rebirth Collective and in the recent past in Ewout Pierreux 5, Tuesday Night Orchestra, Simple, Little Dots ... and has been a frequent guest at the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Scoreman, Pieter Embrechts, Lady Linn & Her Magnificent Seven, El Tattoo Del Tigre ...
But you only get to know the true Vansina through his own projects, including the trio Vansina-Verbruggen-Gudmunsson. A number of CDs of this trio have already been released on RAT Records (the label Vansina founded with Teun Verbruggen): Trio Music, In Orbit, Tokyo Qunatize.
More info can be found on his website.
As of the academic year 2020-2021, Bruno Vansina teaches Jazz Saxophone at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, succeeding John Ruocco.
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