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Harmen Fraanje is an Amsterdam-based Dutch pianist, composer and educator, known for his lyrical voice and his natural sense of flow. Rooted in jazz and improvisation, his music is driven by a constant search for openness, depth and connection.

He leads and co-leads projects with musicians from across Europe and beyond, including Reijseger Fraanje Sylla and a duo with Arve Henriksen, records for some of the most respected labels in contemporary jazz, including ECM, Winter & Winter, Hubro and Astropi, and writes music for his own projects as well as on commission. Together with Ernst Reijseger, he has contributed as a performer and increasingly as a composer to the music of ten films by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog.

Alongside his performing and composing career, he is Chair of the Jazz Piano Department at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading institutions for jazz education, and a regular faculty member of the Siena Jazz Workshop in Italy.

“Harmen Fraanje is emerging as one of the most impressive young European pianists of the past decade.”

— AllAboutJazz (US)

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