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Vivienne Aerts
Vivienne Aerts is a Dutch vocalist, conductor, and composer with a focus on electronics and multisensory experience design. She has been residing in New York City since 2015 where she has performed at the Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz Standard, Metropolitan room, and Mezzrow and has shared the stage with both national and international Jazz icons such as Lee Konitz, Kenny Werner, Chris Potter, Peter Erskine, and Florian Weber. Together with her husband, who is a pastry chef, she organizes events and performances under the name Vervool using jazz, haute cuisine, and modern art. Aerts is currently working on her third album, Typuhthâng, a musical exchange with over 100 female musicians to empower female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park Congo. In 2018 she spoke at the National Fulbright conference in Mexico and recorded on Kenny Werner’s Vinyl release Church On Mars with Dave Liebman, Terri Lyne Carrington, and James Genus in 2019.
Aerts studied on a Fulbright at Berklee College of Music with renowned jazz musicians such as Danilo Pérez, Joe Lovano, and John Patitucci, among others. Before moving to America, Aerts trained as a jazz/pop choir conductor and got a bachelor's and a master's degree in clinical psychology. She worked several years as a psychologist, teacher, and conductor of several choirs as well as sang with different bands.
Awards
- Umbria Jazz Scholarship Award to study at Berklee (2007).
- Fulbright Scholarship (2012)
- Dutch Zoetermeer Jazz Award (2010)
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Vivienne Aerts: Typuhthâng
by Chris May
Typuhthâng is a luminous, exquisitely crafted suite of music and an album on a mission. The mission is twofold: to mark International Women's Day with a recording performed and engineered by women, for everyone, and to provide financial support to The Femmes de Virunga, a cacao farming collective of 1,500 women in Virunga State Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The album grew out of conversations between the Dutch-born, New York-based singer and composer Vivienne ...
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Vocals
Location
New York City
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
Currently, Aerts is a faculty member at Berklee College of music where she has been instrumental in building a new generation of performers who are not only skilled musicians but also mentally and physically healthy individuals. She is known for addressing core issues artists and educators alike have been grappling with unnoticed for generations: mental health, well-being, and the hamster-wheel effect the neglect of the same threatens to have on the arts eco-system.
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Streetlamps
From: PolaroidBy Vivienne Aerts