Efraim Trujillo-sax(Jazz op de Zondagmiddag)
02/03/2025 om 16:00
Agenda
Koos Wiltenburg-bas, Thomas Zoetelief-gitaar, Joost van Schaik-drums
Efraïm Trujillo was born in Lynwood, California. At the age of six, he started playing the clarinet, later also taking up the saxophone. Since his childhood, Amsterdam has been his place of residence. He graduated in 1994 at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the direction UM (performing musician). In 2019 recieved his Master’s degree at the same institute. His research about the Blues was rewarded
Trujillo plays on major jazz stages with The Preacher Men, The_Ploctones & New Cool Collective Big Band. He has also collaborated with the Metropole Orkest and Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw. He worked as an arranger for Nederlands Jeugd Jazz Orkest in 2017 and 2018. He is the musical leader, conductor, and arranger of the Amsterdam Funk Orchestra. In 2019 he won the Edison Public Award with his music group The Preacher Men. (see below)
Efraïm has played at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, the Standard Bank Jazz Festival in South Africa, the Tokyo Jazz Festival in Japan and many more festivals. In addition, he worked for many years for the NTR radio programs Mijke & Co Live. There he had the opportunity to play with and arrange for various artists such as Oleta Adams, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Gregory Porter, George Duke, and Chris Potter.