Festivals and concert series

•1993/94; Organizer and co-founder of the first ‘Utrechts Jazz Treffen’ Festival

•1994; Critic for the magazin ‘Muziek en Onderwijs’

•2000 – 2014; Co-programmer of the ‘Music: World Series’ national wide concert & festival organization

•2007 – 2011; Programmer of a weekly  improv concert series ‘u-ex(perimental)‘ at the SJU Jazzpodium and Centraal Museum, Utrecht

•2011 – 2022; Member of the government board of the association for improvising musicians, BIMpro.

•2012; Curator of the ’U-Jazz Festival’, Utrecht

•2014 – 2020; Advisor composition ’Fonds voor Podium Kunsten’

•2016 – now; Director of the Festival ‚Jazz Op De Sofa’, Zeist

•2018 & 2019; Organizer of the ‘HKU Flute Festival‘

•2018; Curator of the ‘Taipei International Improvisation Music Festival’ (TIIMF), Taiwan. Edition ‘Focus On Holland’

• 2019, editor for the the Concertzender radio presenting (and donating) in four episodes my Lotz Collection – a collection of CD I got from musicians during my travels around the globe

•2019, Initiator of the BIM Podium Prijs 2019. An award by the Union Of Improvising Musicians (BIM Pro) for a small venue

•2020; Curator of the Lotz Of Music Series in collaboration with Beauforthuis, Austerlitz

•2020/21; Curator of Mark My Wor(l)ds concert series in collaboration with Museum Speelklok Utrecht

•2020/21; GIST! A collective of Utrecht based artists with a festival and concert series

•2021 – now; VOLfest. A monthly world-music concert series at the Vollenhove flats, Zeist

•2021 – 2024; Jazzcafé Zeist. A monthly jazz concert at the castle Of Zeist.

•2023/24; Curator of the Mark My Wor(l)ds concert series in collaboration with Molen De Ster, Utrecht