Pianist and composer Wolfert Brederode (1974) returns to the Festival after making an amazing appearance with his quartet in 2009, and another in 2013 with the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet. His music features a refined and focused touch, concern for natural flow, openness to all kinds of music, and his relentless search for new horizons. In Belgrade he presents the new trio with the highly lyrical album Black Ice released on ECM Records in spring 2016 behind them.

Beside recording albums under his own name in trios, quartets and quintets, he recorded with other groups such as Nimbus, the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet and the Susanne Abbuehl Group and in a duo with the drummer Joost Lijbaart. Wolfert has furthermore worked with notable artists such as David Liebman, Jeanne Lee, Arve Henriksen, Mark Feldman, Wolfgang Puschnig, Ernst Reijseger, Claudio Puntin, Tore Brunborg, Mats Eilertsen, Harry Sokal, Ack van Rooyen, Eric Ineke… He also contributed compositions to several theatre, dance and film productions and is a piano and ensemble teacher at the jazz departments of the conservatories of Tilburg and The Hague.