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About The Zapp String Quartet
The Zapp String Quartet is an extraordinary string quartet specialized
in playing improvised music, jazz, rock, ethnic music, contemporary
music and all kinds of combinations of these styles. There is
a long string quartet tradition in classical music. Zapp adds
its own groovy way of playing and percussion techniques, which
enables them to sound in turn like a heavy rock band, a Bulgarian
folk group or a be-bopping jazz band. All the members of ZAPP
are improvisers and soloists in their own right and they all compose
or arrange music for the quartet. Zapp has collaborated with Eric
Vaarzon Morel & Eric Vloeimans, Calefax, Rian de Waal, James
Campbell, Zuco 103, Braam/De Joode/Vatcher, Dox Orchestra, Jazzanova,
Fleurine & Brad Mehldau, David Kweksilber & Jozef Dumoulin
and many others. The Zapp String Quartet received the prestigious
Kersjesprijs 2005. Their most recent program and accompanying
CD which was released in November 2005 and presented in the Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam, is called Passaggio; for this project Zapp has commissioned
renowned Dutch musicians and composers Guus Janssen, Ernst Reijseger,
Corrie van Binsbergen, Randal Corsen and Martin Fondse to write
new music. Their music has a great diversity of moods: swinging
jazz, classical chamber music and hot funk grooves.
Jasper Le Clercq – violin
Friedmar Hitzer – violin
Oene van Geel – viola
Emile Visser – cello
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