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Founded in 1982, the Paul van Kemenade Quintet from the
Netherlands blends elements from the European improvised with
American jazz, African- and Spanish music. Blending the
classical with infuences from pop music making all of this
into a cocktail in its own right.
The quintet plays the compositions of all members of the band
and of all guest-musicians but they mainly play work by Van
Kemenade. The quintet had their 25-year anniversary in 2007.
Since 1994 the quintet has frequently cooperated with the South
African musicians Feya Faku and Louis Mhlanga, since 1998 with
Sydney Mnisi and since 2003 with Sonti Mndebele and Bheki Khoza.
Since 2002 the quintet plays reguarly with the West African trio
'Les Frères Guissé' from Senegal. Also projects and
guest-appearances with individual (inter)national musicians like
trumpetplayers Rik Mol and Eric Vloeimans, vocalists David Linx
and Jeroen Zijlstra, tenorplayer David Murray, projects with
vocal groups, with strings and many more. Schoolconcerts is also
one of the activities of the quintet. Info on the quintet
projects may be found under projects quintet.
You can meet several of the musicians in our guestroom.
Info about Paul's other activities you will find under the
banner Private Projects.
On these pages you'll find the full biography,
the latest news, discography
and latest tour dates.
The Paul van Kemenade Quintet is being supported by the Netherlands Fund for
Performing Arts (NFPK+), the provincial Fund for Performing Arts (Provincie
Noord-Brabant) and the Municipality Council of Tilburg.
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