Ben Van Gelder

Dutch saxophonist and clarinetist, born in 1988. He grew up in a musical family, and began playing saxophone at the age of 11. Ben became involved in the jazz scene at an early age, was already a prize-winner as a student, and appeared at such prestigious jazz venues as the North Sea Jazz Festival. Beginning in 2003 he studied at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and after receiving the Stan Getz/Clifford Brown Fellowship, migrated to New York in 2006 to study under the likes of Mark Turner and Lee Konitz at the prestigious New School.