Paul van Kemenade, Altosax

Paul van Kemenade (Rotterdam /the Netherlands 1957)
altosax- composer- bandleader-'Stranger than Paranoia' festival

Started: at the age of 13 and started in 1974 study at the Brabants Conservatory Tilburg and the last year of his study in Amsterdam.

Professional: 1976 he started in a cabaretshow and played in dance/nightclubs till 1980 and since 1977 started with improvisation music and started up own bands / projects playing his own compositions. With a.o. duo van Rossum/van Kemenade, Palinckx & Palinckx, Podium Trio, Gemeente- reinigingsorkest Vaalbleek and Vaalbleek Vokaal by Niko Langenhuijsen, Brevis, bands under own name, dance-projects, big bands, with performers/poets and painters, de Orkaan with a.o. Han Bennink,and Sean Bergin, the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra by Alex Von Schlippenbach with a.o.Kenny Wheeler - Ed Thigpen - Benny Bailey -Gerd Dudek, with the Surinam Music Ensemble, with Aki Takase, Bizar Habit, Eric van der Westen octet, with John Engels/Jasper van 't Hof/Eric Vloeimans.

End eighties and beginning nineties : guest co-leadership with Herman de Wit's workshoporchestra de Boventoon and he was playing (and still is) in a lot of ad hoc ensembles. During 20 years ('79 - '99) he tought hundreds of workshops throughout the whole country and conducted his workshop- orchestra Brabants Leerorkest for 5 years. From 1985-2005 he played leadalto in Willem van Manen's modern big band 'Contraband' and works 25 years in 2007 with his own quintet which have performed with brass bands, popgroups, symphonic orchestras and guest musicians from all around the world.

Awards

• 1984 "Podium Prijs" of the S.J.I.N., the Dutch Jazz Foundation
• 1998 Jazz in Duketown' Award 1998 '
• 1999  "Moderne Industriestad Prijs Tilburg"
• 1999 "VPRO/Boy Edgar Prijs", oeuvre award for professional jazzmusicians in the Netherlands for their contribution to Dutch jazzmusic.
• 2007 a Royal Decoration (lid in de Orde van Oranje Nassau)
• 2008 'Antony Kok' Art Award

At the time he is playing in

• Paul van Kemenade quintet, (also projects with windband/symphony-orchestra/ popgroup) + guests Rik Mol/EricVloeimans/David Murray/David Linx/Jeroen Zijlstra
• Paul van Kemenade Quintet & Faku / Mnisi / Mndebele / Matshiza (South Africa)
• Paul van Kemenade Quintet + & Les Frères Guissé (Senegal)
• Ray Anderson-Han Bennink-Frank Möbus-Ernst Glerum-Paul Van Kemenade International Quintet USA / BRD / NL
• Trio with Eric Vloeimans / Wiro Mahieu ( trp/alto/bass) Two horns and a bass
• Duo with pianist Michiel Braam, two 'Boy Edgar' award winners
• Duo with pianist Harmen Fraanje and duo with pianist Stevko Busch
• Borderhopping (BRD / NL quintet with a.o. Eckhard Koltermann/Achim Krämer)
• Vandoorn trio (with vocalist Ineke van Doorn and guitarist Marc van Vugt)
• Podium Trio (Wierbos-Van Kemenade-Kuiper) three 'Podium Prijs' winners
• Strings Get Wings (stringquartet/cajon/bass/alto with a.o.the French violinplayer Pierre Blanchard / Niko Langenhuijsen)

occasionally with 'Podium Trio' with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Cornell Rochester, with Peter Hofland (electronic music), with Buddha Building (DJ / sampling performer), in a duo with flamenco-guitarist Maurice Leenaars, in trio with Palinckx/ Van Kemenade/ Palinckx (guitar/alto/bass) and as a soloist in several groups/projects.
He has played all throughout Europe, Canada, South-Africa, West-Africa, Indonesia and participates on almost 50 LP's and CD's.

He still teaches now and than guestworkshops and is living in Tilburg since 1974. He was for 7 years programmer of the jazzseries at the 'Theatre Festival Boulevard' in Den Bosch and in 1993 he initiated the 'Stranger than Para..noia' festival at the 'Paradox' in Tilburg and is eversince artistic director/programmer of this succesfull small musicfestival.

He has played with a.o. Ray Anderson, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Aki Takase, Ed Thigpen, Frank Möbus, Cecil Mcbee, Benny Bailey, Gerd Dudek, Rob van den Broek, Heinz Becker, Kenny Wheeler, Manfred Zepf, Thomas Heberer, Christoph Haberer, Conny and Johannes Bauer, Joe Sachse, Han Bennink, Willem Breuker, Misha Mengelberg, Niko Langenhuijsen, Sean Bergin, Louis Moholo, Zim Ngqawana, Feya Faku, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Cornell Rochester, Theo Jörgensmann, Eric Vloeimans, Eckard Koltermann, Piet Noordijk, Hans Dulfer, Ernst Ludwig Petrovski, Kelvyn Bell, Rainer Winterschladen, Stefan Bauer, Michael Heupel, David Murray, Matthias Nadolny, Jasper van't Hof, John Engels, Pierre Courbois, Willem Kühne, Dré Pallemaerts, Erwin Vann, Philip Catherine, Buddy Wells, Pablo Nahar, Franky Douglas, Eddy Veldman, George Lewis, Louis Mhlanga, Toon de Gouw, Leo Cuijpers, Sydney Mnisi, played with the Metropole Orchestra conducted by Vince Mendoza and Jim McNeely, Brabants Orkest and the Brabants Jazz Orchestra, Les Frères Guissé, David Linx, Ba Cissoko, Robin Eubanks, Euregio Youth Orchestra, McCoy Mrubata, Mark Fransman, Bertil Strandberg, Achim Krämer, Bart van Lier, Ray Anderson, Frank Möbus, Ernst Glerum, Michael Sarin, Mario Pavone, Ramon Valle and many others.