BLINK QUARTET

BLINK QUARTET is a Netherlands based string quartet, performing written and spontaneous music that uses improvisation as an important part of the music-making process. Creating works together across different disciplines, finding uncommon stage setups or locations are some of the group's interests... Geerte is a Dutch violinist and workshop leader specialised in improvisation, co-creation, community art and site specific work. In her work, the violin, movement, voice and text are all integrated, often used in a collaboration based on co-creation or improvisation with other artists. As a teacher and coach, she works with the master students of the HKU and ArtEZ guiding them in creative music-making, community art and side specific composition projects... The backgrounds of the musicians involved are classical music, contemporary classical, jazz, free improvisation, music theatre and pop. This mixture is characteristic of the specific rich Dutch cultural environment.