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– Peter Tiehuis, Theo de Jong en Bart Fermie –
Theo de Jong is an allround bass guitar player living in both The Netherlands and Belgium. He works with/has worked with a lot of well-known national and international artists like Toots Thielemans, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Batida, Ekseption, Ilse DeLange and Gino Vannelli.
Presently Theo is involved in the following projects: Peter Hertmans Quartet, Anne Wolf Trio, Fay Claassen, Catharsis.
Theo is teaching bass guitar and ensemble at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Utrecht since 1985 and regularly travels around Europe to do workshops and masterclasses.
Theo is teaching bass guitar and ensemble at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Utrecht since 1985 and regularly travels around Europe to do workshops and masterclasses.
Bart Fermie began his versatile musical career by founding Small Talk, a Dutch latin jazz band.
He studied Cuban and Brazilian percussion in New York, Havana and Amsterdam, toured and recorded or appeared on television with well over 120 artists and bands like Batida, Chris Hinze, Jan Akkerman,Van Dyke Parks, Ernest Ranglin, George Duke, Randy Crawford, Maria Schneider, Ivan Lins, Toots Thielemans, Gino Vannelli, Branford Marsalis.
Bart teaches percussion, didactics and ensembles at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Rotterdam Conservatory. Bart taught percussion workshops in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, UK, Belgium and The Dutch Antilles.