Name Ilse Huizinga | Role Singer | |
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Born October 15, 1966 (age 57) ( 1966-10-15 ) Beverwijk, Netherlands Education Conservatorium van Amsterdam Albums Beyond Broadway, Easy to Idolize, The Sweetest Sounds, Voices Within, The Intimate Sessions, Out of a Dream Similar People Denise Jannah, Fay Claassen, Rita Reys, Ilse DeLange | ||
Ilse huizinga on the streets where you live
Ilse Huizinga (October 15, 1966) is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.
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- Ilse huizinga on the streets where you live
- Ilse huizinga in zandvoort highlights april 2013
- History
- Awards
- Discography
- Samples
- References
Ilse huizinga in zandvoort highlights april 2013
History
She lived in Australia for a year and attended the University of Amsterdam where she received a degree in Public Administration. From 1993–1996 she studied music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and took master classes with Dianne Reeves and Margriet Eshuis.
Her informal debut was at Ronnie Scott's, and she has also performed at Concertgebouw and Amsterdam's Bijlmerbajes prison. She has toured in Spain, Turkey, Switzerland, and France, and regularly performs in the United Kingdom. A winner of the Schiedam Jazz Award, she has represented the Netherlands at the international jazz festival in Vienne, France. In 2011 Huizinga formed Vocal Jazz Trip, a tour operator based in Amsterdam that hosts vocal jazz master classes and jazz themed city breaks in Paris, Berlin, Rome, New York City, Prague, and London
KLM selected Huizinga's debut album Out of a Dream for its in-flight entertainment program. On Voices Within she recorded her own voice five times. Her third album The Sweetest Sounds was voted Album of the Week on Dutch radio and is played on specialist jazz radio stations across Europe. In 2001 Huizinga recorded an album devoted to the songs of Richard Rodgers entitled The Sweetest Sounds. It was nominated for Holland's oldest music award, The Edison Award.
Huizinga's most celebrated collaboration is with her husband, the pianist, composer, and arranger Erik van der Luijt. Other notable collaborations include double bass player Sven Schuster, percussionist Frits Landesbergen and double bass player Ruud Jacobs, who is said to have been coaxed out of retirement for Huizinga's 1999 album Voices Within. It was Jacobs who suggested dubbing Huizinga's voice five times to create a close harmony sound on this album.