Dago Sondervan Quintet

Listen to one of the tunes we play :

Almost Blue (Elvis Costello)

For booking and info :

call : +32 486 83 91 57 or send me a mail : Sondervan1@gmail.com

Dago Sondervan : Drums & Vocals

I started playing  jazz when I was still in my early teens , being very fortunate to be able to attend  the only school in Belgium teaching jazz at that time : the Jazz-studio of Antwerp. They  had some great drummers as teachers from whom I learned a lot  : Billy Hart, Dré Pallemaerts & Jan De Haas.

After finishing my education I got  involved  into the early Belgian electronic dance-music scene.

I started DJ-ing , spinning Jungle and rave-tunes at famous clubs like Fuse,  Brussels and the biggest  electronic festivals of Belgium, I Love Techno, ten days off, It’s like a jungle.

I produced a lot of experimental electronic music using the names Anton Price and Bohrbug.

Meanwhile I worked as a drummer , being  a session player for well-known  bands.

Daan, Styrofoam, Little Criminals, Think of One, Trixie Whitley, Buscemi, Nive Nielsen, etc

and for theater : Het Paleis & Laika.

The last couple of years I love to sing in my projects, interpreting the music of Randy Newman , supported by a band and a full string-orchestra or playing standards with my quintet, and also using vocals in my electronic compositions.

Let me introduce you the members of my quintet :

Jon Birdsong : Cornet

Jon Birdsong on cornet. He was born in Texas, USA
and lived and worked in San Francisco and New York, having played with Beck, Calexico, Smokey Hormel and Miho Hatori among others.  He is currently living in Antwerp where he has toured with and recorded with groups like Think of One, FES, Stijn, Raymond Van Het Groenwoud, Deus, Dijf Sanders. He is currently working with his own?.uh? creative project Special Choir and plays with Koen DeCauter and Les Blauw..

Yannick Peeters : Double bass

Yannick (13/04/1981) started playing piano at 8 and changed later on to double bass. She attended several workshops from Phillipe Aerts, Nic Thys, Gary Peacock, Bill Carrothers Trio, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Marc Ducret. She graduated from the conservatory of Antwerp in 2005, where she got basslessons from Piet Verbist and Gulli Gudmundsson.
In 2004 she studied half a year at the music school in Göteborg, Sweden, where she got lessons from Anders Jormin.
She is currently playing in different bands such as Muni, Ewout Pierreux Trio, aNoo, Eve Beuvens Trio and her own trio with Fredrik Hamrå (dr) and Joel Wästberg (ts).

Antoon Offeciers : Piano

Antoon works for theater and with a well-known rockgroup from Antwerp : Sukilove. He was a member of the Muze 5, a jazzcombi who played a show every week in the famous Jazz-café De muze for at least five years.

Eric Morel : Saxophone

He was a founding member and the saxophone player of the,  now ceased , famous band Think Of One. In 2007 they won the Boundary Crossing Award of the BBC .Former member of the Flat Earth Society of Peter Vermeersch. And he works with one of the leading theater company’s of Belgium : TG Stan
Following musicians are playing regularly with our band :

Jean-Paul Estiévenart , Glenn Magerman, Eve Beuvens, Dajo De Cauter,  Ramsy Irani, Wout Gooris, Nathan Wouters,