“Chasing Penguins’ is permeated with a very personal signature and an effortless smoothness you could expect from this class act.” – Guy Peters (Enola)
“Chasing Penguins is not about explicit pointers; it’s about invention while you go along. Not without direction and purpose, but with an open and stimulating combination of harmony and restlessness.” – Guy Peters
Bram De Looze is a jack of many trades who travels and performs frequently with Piano e Forte, LABtrio, MiXMONK, Joey Baron and multiple ensembles alongside Dre Hocevar, Stephanos Chytiris, Stéphane Galland, Samuel Ber, Mark Schilders, and Antoine Pierre. Recently, he was granted a SABAM Jazz Award for ‘Young Talent’ at the Gent Jazz Festival.
Nathan Wouters studied his last year at the University of Göteborg (Sweden), where his teacher was Anders Jormin, and has finished his master’s degree with greatest distinction. He has worked with several professional musicians, such as Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Hilmar Jensson, Aki Takase, Rudi Mahall, Kris Davis, Alexi Tuomarila, John Ruocco, Kurt Van Herck, Dré Pallemaerts, Bert Joris, Erwin Vann, Ben Sluijs, Jeroen Van Herzeele and Joachim Badenhorst.
Steven Delannoye was selected to attend the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York. At MSM, he worked intensively with pianist Phil Markowitz, who shared his experiences of playing together with the great Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman of the saxophone summit.
“Like most of Teun Verbruggen’s projects, Chasing Penguins manages to find that delicate balance between accessibility and idiosyncrasy. It takes personality and elasticity to pull it off with conviction, and these guys have it in spades.” – Guy Peters
André Fernandes – guitar
Teun Verbruggen – drums, electronica
Bram de Looze – piano, fender rhodes
Steven Delannoye – tenorsaxophone
Nathan Wouters – bass