Triography

Inspired by the Latin American repertoire guitarist Esther Steenbergen started her own trio with which she plays highly original interpretations of ‘standard’ guitar repertoire combined with compositions especially written for the trio mainly by jazz musicians. By melting and mixing the genres, classical, Latin, jazz and traditional music, the trio created its own sound, style and repertoire which can be listened to at the CDs Repertoire and New!

The trio is at it’s best performing for an attentive audience in venues and at festivals with classical and jazz programming. Pleasure with each other as well as with the audience plays an important role in their concerts.

Composer, arranger and bass player Eric Calmes is just as much at home in jazz, fusion and salsa as he is in classical music. Born and raised at Curacao (Dutch Antilles) he came to Holland at the age of twenty to study at the conservatory in Rotterdam. His vitality, flexibility, adaptability and talent at putting down the bass line under whatever type of group has made him the favorite bass player for many musicians ever since.

Enrique Firpi was born in Uruguay and was fourteen years old when he played his first paid ‘gig’ and has not stopped performing since. A musician must have great versatility to survive in a land such as Uruguay which is precisely his great strength. Enrique Firpi has lived in the Netherlands since 1987; he performs internationally and can be heard on countless CDs.