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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.
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Paul with young colleague
end '70

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