My self produced singer-songwriter album Pop into Being is out on all digital platforms. I wrote all the songs, played all the instruments (except flute) and sung! One of the tracks features South-African singer Tutu Puoane.
I had the pleasure and honor of playing 2 concerts with the great Fred Hersch. We played music from his "Breath by Breath" album. August 15th 2022 we'll do it again at the Middelheim Jazz Festival in Antwerp!
Line up:
Fred Hresch – piano
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Jonas Burgwinkel – drums
Desguin String Quartet
I’ll be playing with the Brad Mehldau Quartet at the TRANSMISSION – TRANSITION FESTIVAL, featuring my long time friend Joris Roelofs and drum legend Jorge Rossy. This is a special one for me on many levels.
Here’s the details, if you want to see the concert online: TICKETS and INFO
…plans are being made to record some genuine double bass music. First of all, I will do a duo recording with the inscrutable Harmen Fraanje. We will play around with original pieces, improvisations and a few better know melodies arranged for the double bass and piano. Second, slowly but surely, I’m getting ready to play some beautiful Giovanni Bottesini pieces with pianist Artem Belogurov, 19th century style…on three pure guts strings (see picture) and a historically appropriate piano.
The last year, I have been playing a ridicoulous amount of music in wondrous places, from Harelbeke to Vladiwostok and South-Africa with the likes of Tutu Puoane (SA/BE), Dré Pallemaerts(BE) with Pablo Held (DE) and Sebastian Gill (DE), Robin Verheyen (BE) with Marc Copland (US) and the legendary Billy Hart, Becca Stevens (US) & the Metropole Orchestra, Joris Roelofs (NL), Jesse van Ruller Trio, Tineke Postma Quartet (NL), Paul Lay (FR), Jason Seizer (DE) and many more.
And, the Feenbrothers are back! A very nice Dave Brubeck tribute cd is coming out, that my three brothers and I recorded in november 2018. And I’m playing some bassnotes (and singing!) on the 2018 Grammy winning cd “Crazy girl Crazy” by the incredible Barbara Hannigan & Ludwig Orchestra.
Franz von Chossy
More music coming up: there wil be a new (live-) recording for the Michael Moore Quartet, cd presentations for Maartje Meijers album ‘Gedichten van de Torenkamer’ (16 feb, Bimhuis) and a new Franz von Chossy Trio record (16&17 march). Also coming up are some concerts with Medusa Beats feat. Jonas Burgwinkel (DE) and Benoit Delbecq (FR) and a tour featuring Christianne Stotijn, who will be singing ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ by Mahler with the Dutch Wind Ensemble (NBE).
