Erik Veldkamp composer

Erik was born August 5, 1969 in Wapenveld, The Netherlands. He has studied at the Hogeschool Constantijn Huygens (1986-1991) but continued his musical education at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, where he studied jazz- and leadtrumpet, later followed by jazz arranging. In 1996 he finished his schoolyears. During his college-years Erik had already played with the Metropole Orchestra, the Skymasters, the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and various popbands.

He has recorded and played with various big bands, ensembles and orchestras such as the WDR Big Band (Cologne), Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), NDR Big Band (Hamburg), King of Swing Orchestra, Brussels Jazz Orchestra (Belgium), Big Band Bremen, Sunday Night Orchestra, HR-Bigband (Frankfurt), Holland Big Band, Summit Jazz Orchestra (Regensburg), Ten of the Best, Rhine Phillis Orchestra (Koblenz), Philharmonie Zuidnederland (Maastricht), Noordpool Orchestra and of course the above mentioned.