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Mark Tuinstra
His focus is wide, he loves jazz and free improv but also African and Indian music, and pop. This shows that Mark loves to play with others, only to PLAY; not restricted to any musical boundaries or conventions. This made him tour all over Europe, Brazil, Guatemala, Turkey, Japan, Senegal, Egypt, Jordan, Beirut, Japan, South-Africa etc. In The Netherlands he played on festivals like Lowlands and the Musicmeeting and in numerous jazzvenues like the BIMhuis in Amsterdam.
Mark currently plays in the Nordanians, in an 8 piece Mbalax-band with Senegalese singer Omar Ka and classic/electric/calypsoband dr. Jordan Institute and Trio Atomico. Besides that he is one of the organizers of the Keppler Sessions in Amsterdam (which he co-hosts with bassplayer tony overwater), he regularly composes music for Dutch television and he is a teacher at De Popschool in Amsterdam.