Wolfert Brederode and Mischa Andriessen

Wolfert Brederode (1974) started playing classical piano and violin at the age of seven. In his early teenage years on he also discovered pop- and jazz music and started composing his own music. 

In 1999 he graduated with honors from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he had been studying with ao Frans Elsen, Albert Brussee and Rob van Kreeveld.

Wolfert has since then developed into one of the most prominent and authentic  voices on the Dutch jazz scene. His refined and focused touch, the concern for natural flow, his openness and a relentless search for new horizons are characteristic features of his music. 

He debuted with groups such as Nimbus, the Wolfert Brederode Quintet & Trio, Binary Orchid, Duo Lijbaart/Brederode and Batik. Later he founded his lauded international quartet with Claudio Puntin, Mats Eilertsen and Samuel Rohrer. Ensembles of current interest are Ruins  and Remains, a project with drummer Joost Lijbaart and the Matangi Quartet, the Wolfert Brederode Trio with Gulli Gudmundsson and Jasper van Hulten and duo Lijbaart/Brederode. As a leader he recorded four albums for ECM Records.

As a much in demand sideman Wolfert has been working extensively with ao Susanne Abbuehl, the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet,  Celano/Baggiani/Badenhorst/Brederode and Kika Sprangers’s No Man’s Land. As a sideman and with his own ensembles he recorded several albums, and toured and performed at festivals throughout Europe, North- and South America, Canada, Asia, Australia and Africa. Four albums on which he collaborated have been awarded with an Edison Award. Wolfert has furthermore worked with artists such as David Liebman, Arve Henriksen, Mark Feldman, Tore Brunborg, Ack van Rooyen, Jeanne Lee, Mathias Eick, Michel Portal and Marilyn Mazur.

 Apart from performing Wolfert composes regularly for dance, theatre and film productions and he also works as a producer. Wolfert is a main subject teacher jazz piano & ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and Fontys in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Poet Mischa Andriessen (1970) debuted in 2008 with Uitzien met D, winner of the C. Buddingh’ Prize. His follow-up, Huisverraad (2012), received the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize, and in 2014 he was awarded the Charlotte Köhler Stipendium. Dwalmgasten (2016) was met with critical acclaim, after which he served as writer-in-residence at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. His 2019 collection Winterlaken won the Awater Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Paul Snoek Prize.

Since 2020, Andriessen has been teaching at the Amsterdam Writers’ Academy. His fifth collection, Het Drogsyndicaat, earned him the Jan Campert Prize and a longlisting for the Grote Poëzieprijs. In 2022 he published his first short story collection, Probeer De Hemel Mijn Huis Te Maken, nominated for the J.M. Biesheuvel Prize. His latest poetry collection, Pieta, appeared in 2024.

He also writes about visual art and music for Trouw and Het Financieele Dagblad.