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Hanne De Backer is a Belgian baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetplayer based in Brussels. She is an energetic and versatile performer, mainly working in the field of improvised music and has left her mark on the European improv-scene in recent years. 

 

She is the founder of the  g a b b r o collective for which she acts both as a musician and an artistic and production-leader. Since 2021 she has also done all the editing for the  g a b b r o -projects.

 

Currently she is part of several active bands and projects that go from improvised to composed and contemporary music (La Nuée, Barbastelle, Jakob Bro Tentet, Jesper Zeuthen's Empty Pocket Sextet, Condor Gruppe). Besides that she has several improvised constellations with whom she loves  to keep on playing (together with Signe Emmeluth, Terrie Ex, Stephan Deller and Steffen Roth, Beate Wiesinger, Hamid Drake, Andreas Bral, Raf Vertessen, Marta Warelis, a.o.).

 



 

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