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Amsterdam-based guitarist/composer Jeroen Kimman could be considered something of an anthropologist within the Dutch creative music scene. He's not strictly a composer, not strictly a hired gun "impossible guitar parts" player for modern ensembles, not strictly a gifted colorist for chamber jazz ensembles, not strictly a country music geek or ex math-rocker: his thing is more about collecting different approaches, learning from and slightly warping every musical angle that presents itself.

Like most professional chameleons, his cv is necessarily diverse. But whether playing jazz-related or improvised music, performing composed music with small ensembles or large orchestras, playing and/or composing for film, animation, theater, music theater, and contemporary dance productions, or even playing mariachi in funny pants for a wedding gig: there's a joy and a challenge in all of it, looking for the sweet spot.

He has performed and/or recorded with Sleep Gunner, Brown vs Brown, Rosa Ensemble, Asko|Schönberg, Bugpowder, Roomtone, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Michael Moore’s The Persons, Ensemble MAE, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Nieuw Ensemble, Buisonic, De Nationale Opera, Noord Nederlands Toneel/Club Guy & Roni, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, So Horse, Leo Svirsky’s River Without Banks, Theater Utrecht, MAZE Ensemble, Schupp & van Dijk, 33 1/3 Collective, Doelen Ensemble, Qubit Philharmonic, Opera Spanga, Kweksilber Big Band, Polyband, WijkSafari, VocaalLab, NBE, Music for Speakers, Pumporgan, ZT Hollandia and many others.

Apart from these what you might call "social endeavors", he records and produces his own music under the monniker Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido.

And for what it's worth, he studied jazz guitar at the Arnhem conservatory, and plays a little pedal steel and banjo as well.