Nils Fischer Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Netherlands

The 12-piece band TIMBAZO presents a unique blend of salsa timba and jazz. Bandleader Nils Fischer, one of the most important European percussionists, put together an international stellar line-up, including singers Alberto Caicedo, Fabian Nodarse “Huracán”, Nando Vanin, Cubaʼs top percussionists Pepe Espinosa and Calixto Oviedo.Timbazoʼs debut Cd ¡Gracias Joe Cuba! was selected for the Latin Grammys, nominated for the JPF awards in Nashville and for the Dutch Mixed Magazine award. It is included in radio hitlists in Latin America - in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico and other Countries. Timbazo has been performing at major venues and festivals, such as North Sea Jazz Festival [mainstage], Latin Village, Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam and Summer Carnaval Rotterdam for a 40.000-people audience.Descarga.com, New York: "Easily one of the best CDs of the year! Very highly recommended." Latin Beat Magazine, California: "A spectacular debut!"

Leader, percussionist, composer, arranger, producer, manager, funding manager

The Netherlands

In an Inimitable way, the group blends the melancholy of the morna [Cape Verdean blues], the joyful dance of the [also Cape Verdean] coladera with a generous portion of sweeping Cuban rumba, salsa and adventurous jazz. The result: 100% CaboCubaJazz. Both the listener and the dancer are taken on a journey where desire, passion, subtlety and musical fire alternate. Their debut album Rikeza y Valor [2011] has received enthusiastic response worldwide. After a successful release tour as a quintet along the Dutch theaters and clubs, the 2012 tour includes performances in Canada and Norway.The band is extended to an octet format on special request.De Volkskrant wrote : "[...] nice contrasts between sweetness and fire, and between swaying and punching rhythms. [...] A strong groovy blend of exciting call and response singing, sensual melodies and soothing harmonies, brightened by strong arrangements and improvisations."Four starsCaboCubaJazz' vocalist Dina Medina singer is awarded best Cape Verdean Female Singer 2012 at Cabo Verde Music AwardsCD Rikeza y Valor is elected best worldmusic CD 2011 by Dutch journalists

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Journalist Raul Rico (Latin Beat Magazine), praised Nueva Manteca as “Europe’s finest in Latin Jazz”. The Latin jazz mainstay for many years (12 successful albums till date) - is now revisited! Nueva Manteca is back in all its glory - a new, breath taking band with a fresh, international line-up hailing from The Netherlands, Venezuela, Germany & Uruguay. Kick-off for the renewed band wasa triumphant tour in Colombia 2018. Over the years the band performed at prestigious festivals, venues and clubs all around the globe, among them Montreal Jazz Fest, Barranquijazz, SOB's (NYC), Curaçao Jazz Fest, Yoshi's (San Francisco) and many times at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Another highlight has been a performance at Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz together with Paquito D’Rivera and Michel Camilo, other tours featured luminaries like Armando Peraza, Giovanni Hidalgo, Orestes Vilató, Luis Conte & many others.Oscar Cordero – trumpet Ben van den Dungen – saxophone Marc Bischoff – piano Samuel Ruiz – bass Enrique Firpi – drums Nils Fischer – percussion

For many years the Rotterdam Conservatoire has had a high reputation both at home and abroad. Its good name can be attributed to the top quality which it offers in a broad range of areas of study. The Rotterdam Conservatoire consists of five academies; the Rotterdam Classical Music Academy, the Rotterdam Jazz Academy, the Rotterdam Pop Academy, the Rotterdam World Music Academy and the Muziektheateracademie. As a student here you come into contact with almost all the possible music styles and with fellow-students from dozens of countries in all the continents, but in the first instance with strongly motivated and dedicated top teachers, who enjoy international name and fame in their professional field.

Groningen, Netherlands

Percussionist, arranger, composer

Percussionist