Jochem van Dijk

Fay and I moved from Brooklyn to the Catskills in April 2023, and my time since September 2022 got pretty much all used up between buying a house(!), moving to the country from the city, undertaking a massive house renovation, and work. Now in 2024, it is finally time to emerge again musically and start…

Events for 2024 April 13, 2024 /After 10 years, again! Duo with Claire deBrunner (bassoon) Aron’s Place, Brooklyn, NY Events for 2018 news: Dec. 129:30-11:30PM1s, 2s, and 3s: Round Robin ImprovisationsZurcher Venue and Gallery · Brooklyn, New YorkLauren Lee, Damien Olsen,,Ras Moshe Burnett, Adam Dym, Dave Zakarian, David Tamura, Leonor Falcón Pasquali, Andrea Wolper, Prawit Siriwat,…

Sept 30th/ABC No RIO – Oct 23rd/OTWO, Freddies Bar with Evan Gallagher’s Mess-Ensemble I am a big fan of Evan’s music; the parts he writes are just fantastic. Now If I just could play them properly. Oh well. Combustible sonic adventures for usually > 10 musicians. Oct 13th-Air Space Spectrum 121 Ludlow St, 2nd Floor…

I pe4rformed with Evan’s Group back in May, which i enjoyed greatly, because I love his music. It was in the ABC NO Rio, and supposedly a video of the event is to be posted soon. In the meantime the pic will have to do it for now, where I, not quite versed in the…

As a bass guitarist one normally observes two options, when one wants to record the bass guitar: close mike or DI. As the frame of reference for the bass guitar is so steeped in being a part of whole, and a subordinate one at that, it had never entered my mind when I started to…

Feb 28 8:30 PM Freddy’s Bar and Backroom 627 5th Ave between 17th & 18th St. Brooklyn NY 11215 Phone: 718-768-0131 http://freddysbar.com/ I am very psyched about this….that is a killer band, people! “Snelbinder (Dutchman Jochem van Dijk, who until now you only could have known as a composer and arranger for and with vocalist…

I have started a new project where I record solo improvisations at home, -early in the morning that is-, before i go off to work. They are tentatively called “Mood of the Day” (all of them, so far- so much for being imaginative). The idea is to just play something and let things go where…

The dynamic duo of ken Kobayashi and myself have recently contributed the background music to an adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae, directed by Gerald van Wilgen, that was featured on the Philadelphia fringe fest. I should bve able to post some of our noise soon.