We do not exist in isolation; our meaning is found in connection, collaboration, and shared experience. Being an artist also means being engaged and serving the community through the arts.

•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’, a nationwide concert and festival organization

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

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

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

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

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

•2018-19; 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 my Lotz Collection in four episodes — a collection of CDs received from musicians during travels around the globe

•2019, Initiator of the BIM Podium Prijs 2019, an award by BIMpro for small venues

•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 and festival at the Vollenhove flats, Zeist

•2021 – 2024; Jazzcafé Zeist, a monthly jazz concert at Kasteel Zeist

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