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MUSICIANS ‘Windstreken’ |
| Pieter de Mast: Saxophone & flutes Sebastiaan van Delft: Organ Niti Ranjan Biswas: tabla |
 PIETER DE MAST made two prior CDs (Tracing and Vista) with the ‘Pieter de Mast Quintet’. He played with this quintet at jazz venues in the Netherlands (including the North Sea Jazz Festival), Belgium and Germany. As a player of multiple wind instruments, he also contributed to numerous theatre productions, musicals and CDs. He plays together with Sandip Bhattacharaya and Kamal Hors in the ‘Synergy Group’, is a member of “Perron 19” and performs as a duo with guitarplayer Olaf Tarenskeen. Besides being a performing musician and a teacher, Pieter de Mast is also active as a composer. The Rotterdam Conservatory gave him the opportunity to study during half a year at the famous "Berklee College of Music" in Boston. |
 NITI RANJAN BISWASis one of the most sought after tabla players in Europe. He has managed to incorporate a unique and appealing blend of tradition and creativity into his music . He has played with some of the great names of Indian classical music including Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia (Flute) and Kala Ramnath (Violin) . He is also a prominent member of “Drums United”, a unique international percussion group. Born in Bangladesh, Niti started his musical journey at the age of five and by his early teens was a favourite accompanist of Dhaka’s premier musicians. He studied with a.o. Professor Sudhir Kumar Saxena and Shri P.K. Shridhar. At present, Niti is teaching Tabla at The Conservatorium of Amsterdam and The Conservatorium of Rotterdam. |
 SEBASTIAAN VAN DELFTtook organ and piano lessons from Evaristos Glassner, Jos van der Kooy and Leo Doeselaar. At the age of twelve he won the improvisation and interpretation award at the Competition for Young Organ Players in Amsterdam. He studied organ at the Hilversum Conservatory of Music and gave organ concerts together with other musicians, such as saxophone and clarinet player David Kweksilber. Since 1999, he has been the regular piano player of the Dutch/Argentinean tango ensemble Sexteto Canyengue led by Carel Kraayenhof. Sebastiaan plays a Klop-chestorgan. |
| GUEST MUSICIANS: Oene van Geel – viola Kamal Hors - ud & voice Jörg Brinkmann - cello |