Antoine Trommelen

Antoine Trommelen (soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone) is a self-taught musician and made fame in Dixieland, Swing, and Mainstream-jazz. He is the leader of several jazz bands, an award-winning soloist, and has played with many international jazz greats including Bob Wilber, Tom Baker, Dan Barrett, Bob Barnard, Leroy Jones, Warren Vaché, Harry Allen, George Probert, Dee Daniels, Bruce Adams, Gene Conners, Catherene Russell, Peanuts Hucko, Satoru Oda, Benny Powell, Wendell Brunious, Steve Yocum, Jason Marsalis, John Allred, Randy Sandke, Matthias Seuffert, Enrico Tomasso and Roy Williams. Dutch jazz artists Pim Jacobs, Thijs van Leer, Denise Jannah, Frits Landesbergen, Greetje Kauffeld , and many others. Antoine has appeared at many festivals in the Netherlands (including the prestigious 'North Sea Jazz Festival'), but also at leading European Jazzfestivals like 'Jazz Ascona' and 'Jazz in Marciac'. Antoine was leader of the international Philips World Stars Jazz Band for five years. He also has been a member of the Euro Top 8. Next to the jazz Antoine was a band member of Hollands number one pop-singer Guus Meeuwis for 13 years. He has played in concerts on radio an on TV in the Netherlands, Belgium, France (a.o. Jazz in Marciac), Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark, Switzerland, Hungary, Curaçao, Bonaire, Taiwan and Japan . From 1999 until 2013 Antoine was chairman of the famous Breda Jazz Festival , one of the biggest jazz festivals in the Netherlands , with more than 250,000 visitors annually. Antoine is related to Cees Trommelen, Tiny Trommelen and Mattie Trommelen.