She has four great passions, which makes her who she is: music, traveling, writing and organizing. She wakes up with jazz, soul, funk & singer-songwriting, till the midnight hour. Music is a life style which suits Angelique in many ways. She is a writer for the Dutch magazine Jazzism (before 2011 she was writing for Jazz which merged with Jazzism). The freelance editor of Jazzism has the oppertunity to interview her heroes, discover new talent and write reportages and reviews about great international festivals and jazz venues.
Angelique also loves to travel which she also does for the travel magazine Grande & Grande Italie. She likes to discover new people, cultures and areas. From metropoles to pure nature areas. She works together with the great photographer, Henk Bothof, who is making a documentry on African and Indian tribe people. They are working on a special Pure Off the Road travel concept.
Finally, she loves to put her creativity in concepts which she can develop and create herself, from festivals to events, workshops and traveldestinations.
Short background:
Angelique studied journalism in Zwolle from 1998 till 2002. She works for several Dutch magazines and is specialized in music; like Jazz, Jazzism, OOR, Heaven (pop/rock), Luister (classical music), Keyboard Plus and Sonic. In addition, she wrote for photography magazines like: Camera Magazine, De Fotograaf and Pf, but also life style magazines.
After the school of journalism, she studied Arts, Culture & Media (specialized in jazz & music) at the University of Groningen from 2002-2006. Her head teacher was the American Kristin McGee. Finishing the university, she was already writing as a freelance journalist, but also worked as a programmer for a Dutch Theatre. From 2007 till 2009 she got the change to create the festival Jazz Vibes, which had two editions. After this she worked as a project manager for a big teenage art event.
In addition to writing and organizing cultural events, Angelique is also making music herself. She sings and plays saxophones. She performed in many different settings exploring different styles and genres. She also wrote some original compositions, with which she won a national songwriting competition in 2004. She got a lot of publicity and was invited to perform in Russia. One of the highlights was a live performance with the wonderful American Lizz Wright in 2009. Now she is focusing on new projects, like Neumann & Van Os, a special duet program, arranged by the wonderful Ilja Reijngoud.
