Hi onepointers,
I have unhacked my site. The new design and everything else is now online here: http://maartenornstein.com/
All new and shiny
Maarten Ornstein
15 blog entries
We at Splendor Amsterdam have put together a brand new, one week summer academy. All you need to know about the music and the business, with a wide variety of coaches in both music and media. Plus, you get to play a concert at the Grachten Festival. Go here for more info:
http://splendoramsterdam.com/summer-academy/?lang=en
Album release concert in Bimhuis Amsterdam, January 22nd.
http://bimhuis.nl/concerten/duo-maarten-ornstein--sunna-gunnlaugs
The new album of my trio DASH! is out! DASH! Off features 51 minutes of new music, recorded live in Splendorr Amsterdam. Available on CD or as a digital download in MP3, WAV or FLAC. Get it here: http://maartenornstein.bandcamp.com/album/dash-off
Been a while since I did any serious composing, but this summer is filled with it. Piano solo, piano quintet, and a large piece for ensemble with vocal soloists. Let's get cracking. See my site and/or social media feeds for details and updates
Read all about them here: http://maartenornstein.com/news
Great stuff coming up with the Maarten Ornstein - Mike Fentross Duo, project Spoken Beat Night, and more.
Tonight the last concert, in Korzo Theatre Den Haag (NL). Show your love
http://korzo.nl/en/productions/jazz-syria
Special concert right here in Amsterdam. In my own club Splendor. Do I need to tell how important this is? No I don't.
http://splendoramsterdam.com/concerten/jazz-syria
Wednesday March 11 I'm playing with the great Rima Khcheich and other superb musicians at the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Holland. Do not miss this one
http://bit.ly/1Npd4aM
My trio DASH! with some very special guests celebrating the band's 10th anniversary in Splendor Amsterdam. Take a look http://on.fb.me/1AU7oPu
Well, except for the events thingie but really folks, just go my site for the agenda.
http://maartenornstein.com/
Maarten Ornstein plays tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet. On occasion he plays tarogato, electric saxophone, MPC and laptop computers. He is also a composer and arranger. He leads the free funk ensemble DASH! and performs as a soloist. Additionally, he plays with performance poet and singer Jeannine Valeriano, and is a member of Splendor Amsterdam.
Maarten Ornstein has composed for the Calefax Reed Quintet, the North Sea Jazz Festival, Ties Mellema, Koor Nieuwe Muziek Amsterdam, Xenia Meijer, the Metropole Orchestra, New Cool Collective Big Band, Orkater Theatre Company, Anouk van Dijk DC, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Helena Rasker, the Ricciotti Ensemble etc etc, he was co-leader of the modern jazz trio Jungle Boldie (with Tony Overwater and Wim Kegel) and has played with the likes of Pat Metheny, The Ebony Band, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, Ilse de Lange, Ayman Tayseer, David Liebman, Arturas Bumsteinas, Claron McFadden, Red Mitchell, Rima Kcheich, the Schoenberg Ensemble etc etc.