Rik van der Made presents his quintet in the legendary Mike's Badhuistheater! An evening full of young up-and-coming musicians, crazy solos, compositions and much more..!
Rik van der Made (21), born in Roosendaal, The Netherlands, is currently a final year jazz student at the Conservatory of Tilburg and will be doing his Masters at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He writes his own work for his own group, Rik van der Made Group. In 2021 Rik was nominated and became a finalist for the "Conservatory Talent Award" where one of his compositions will be arranged for and accompanied by the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw. He is also a finalist of the "Grachtenfestival Jazz Competition" in 2022 and nominated for the Jaques de Leeuw Prize. Besides this project he can also be seen and heard in the Young Metropole (2021) National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NJJO 2019/2020) conducted by Ruben Hein, the swing band Dukes of Jazz and the wind section SBR Horns. With these different line-ups he has played on various stages and festivals throughout the country such as, North Sea Jazz, Concert at Sea, Jazz in Duketown, Bimhuis, Lantarenvenster, Tivoli Vredenburg, Amersfoort Jazz, PaRaDoX, Grachten Festival Amsterdam, Sound of Europe, Make It Jazz Festival, and more to come.
“…he presented us with one of the most outstanding auditions applications we have seen…” “…his playing is technically fluid, musical inventive and he shows a deep musical awareness and flexibility ‘in the moment’. …with an extremely strong compositional style that showed breadth and diversity in his reference points…” - Professor Nick Smart, Head of Jazz Programmes Royal Academy of Music London
"Van der Made is a real storyteller on the tenor sax, ..." - Brabants Dagblad