Kadri Tegelmann, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross
Biography Kadri Tegelmann, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross
Kadri Tegelmann
repertoire reaches from renaissance, baroque, classicism and romanticism to contemporary music and thus has multi-faceted engagements in Dutch opera and concert stages. Since 2016, she has been a guest artist of the avant-garde theatre Silbersee and in 2018, took up the part of Sibyl Vane in Dorian Gray, an opera co-production of Silbersee and Ulrike Quade Company. Kadri is a member of La Sfera Armonioso, a Dutch baroque ensemble and orchestra. In winter 2020, Kadri will premiere her first trio-CD with Maarten Ornstein and Mike Fentross.
Maarten Ornstein
plays tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet. On occasion he plays tarogato, electric saxophone, MPC and laptop computers. He is also a composer and arranger. He leads the free funk ensemble DASH! and performs in duo with Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, with lutist Mike Fentross, and as a soloist. Additionally, he plays with performance poet and singer Jeannine Valeriano. Maarten Ornstein endorses Légère reeds and is a member of Splendor Amsterdam.
Maarten Ornstein has composed for the Calefax Reed Quintet, the North Sea Jazz Festival, Ties Mellema, Koor Nieuwe Muziek Amsterdam, Xenia Meijer, the Metropole Orchestra, New Cool Collective Big Band, Orkater Theatre Company, Anouk van Dijk DC, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Helena Rasker, the Ricciotti Ensemble etc etc, he was co-leader of the modern jazz trio Jungle Boldie (with Tony Overwater and Wim Kegel) and has played with the likes of Pat Metheny, The Ebony Band, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, Ilse de Lange, Ayman Tayseer, David Liebman, Arturas Bumsteinas, Claron McFadden, Red Mitchell, Rima Kcheich, the Schoenberg Ensemble etc etc.
Mike Fentross
first studied with Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, then with Nigel North and José Miguel Moreno.
He has built a solid reputation as a “continuist”, playing in renowned orchestras like Les Arts Florissants, and is much in demand in his country as well as abroad. He plays and records regularly with great European ensembles such as Capriccio Stravagante, Les Arts Florissants, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Harp Consort, the New London Consort and Al Ayre Espanol.
In 1991 he founded La Sfera Armoniosa, a group devoted to the performance of 17th-century music. Since 1996 Mike Fentross is guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
