Jorik Bergman – Perennial Potpourri

Flutist and bandleader Jorik Bergman was born in Leiden in the Netherlands in 1996 and has lived in Cologne since 2020, where she has made a name for herself as a composer of harmonically expansive orchestral jazz. She calls her own ensemble Jorik Bergman And Her Large, Imaginary Big Band Constellation, made up of musicians who know how to realize her orchestral jazz with humorous seriousness. She has also written for the Subway Jazz Orchestra, realized the “Julius Eastman Project” with eight musicians from Cologne, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels and arranged the strings for “African Sunset” for the debut album of 101-year-old saxophonist Marshall Allen, “New Dawn”. “The quality and originality as well as the colorful differentiation of her compositional work for larger ensembles is extraordinary, and as a flutist she represents a unique and rather rare voice in the jazz context,” says the jury of the “Horst and Gretl Will Scholarship for Jazz/Improvised Music”.