Nick van Dijk
Lecturer in Jazz, Coordinator of third year jazz studies
BMus Massey, BMus(Hons) AdvDipExMus WP, PG in Jazz Music Kon Cons (Neth), MMus Massey & Well
Nick van Dijk teaches jazz composition, theory, combo, jazz trombone
and trumpet, and improvisation. He plays trombone, trumpet, flugelhorn
and piano.
Active as a professional jazz player, Nick van Dijk has performed
in festivals, concerts and in clubs around New Zealand, North
America, Asia and the Netherlands with artists such as Steve Lacy,
Kenny Wheeler, Robin Eubanks, Bobby Shew, Conti Condoli, Chucho
Valdes, Joe La Babara, Jonathan Besser, Nathan Haines and Mike
Nock. He also has extensive orchestral experience.
Nick has recorded music in a variety of musical styles, including
instrumental jazz with Big Band Den Haag, the Vaughn Roberts Big
Band, CLBOB, Norman Meehan, Paul Dyne, and his own CD Oceans Like
This for quintet, voice and orchestra. Pop and rock recordings
include The Black Seeds and Rhombus, TVNZ and RNZ, and support
work for Ray Charles, John Rowles and Kiri Te Kanawa.
He has composed and arranged for groups such as RNZAF band, Vector
Wellington Orchestra, Baroque Voices, NZSM orchestras and ensembles.
He was also the first jazz musician/composer to be officially invited
to teach and perform at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of
Music in China in April 1997.
Current projects include researching multiphonic counterpoint
for trombone, and books on jazz brass playing and improvisation.
Contact details
phone: +64 4 801 5799 ext 6535
room: 1C24, Mount Cook Campus
email: nick.vandijk@nzsm.ac.nz
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