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Harmen Fraanje   Piano, Voice

about

Harmen Fraanje is a pianist and composer from the Netherlands. He leads and co-leads several projects — including the long-standing trio Reijseger Fraanje Sylla and a duo with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen — and performs at festivals and concert venues around the world. He has recorded for leading labels including ECM Records, Winter & Winter, Outhere Music and NXN Recordings. Together with cellist Ernst Reijseger he has contributed to numerous films by Werner Herzog. Harmen is chairman of the Jazz Piano Faculty at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

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Harmen Fraanje is emerging as one of the most impressive European pianists of his generation.
All About Jazz (USA)

He plays silence as much as he plays piano.
Tidningen Kulturen (SWE)

Dutch pianist Fraanje is a real find. Blessed in equal measure with a fine touch and wide-ranging dynamic sensitivity, he has both terrific technique and the intelligence to temper that technique, whenever necessary, in spacious service of the music as a whole.
Jazz Journal (UK)

How does pianist Harmen Fraanje do it? That crystal-clear twinkle in every key he presses. It makes his playing recognisable among thousands. The sound floors you.
De Volkskrant (NL)

The elegantly less-is-more Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje.
Jazzwise (UK)

In recent years Harmen Fraanje has found his lyrical place in the jazz landscape like no one else.
Salt Peanuts (NOR)

While many jazz pianists’ playing lacks clarity, Fraanje’s got it. What’s more, he plays with feeling and elegance.
NRC Handelsblad (NL)

Fraanje is a fascinating and singular pianist whose beautiful playing pulls melodic lines just slightly off the rails, only to return to them gloriously.
Written in Music (NL)