Musical Encounters serie: Yoràn Vroom invites… Joost Kroon! - Teatro Munganga

About Yoràn Vroom

Yoràn Vroom started with music at a young age. He attributes a significant part of his musical development to studying drums with the Surinamese/Dutch drum master Eddy Veldman and West African percussion with Master Ponda O' Bryan. Yoràn graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory and is currently active there as a percussion teacher in the jazz department.

Currently, he is active as a composer and leader of the band Group Of Friends and active in the Dutch/European (jazz) music scene. He has worked with and continues to work with internationally renowned artists Frank McComb, Ed Motta, Cory Henry, Kinga Glyk, and many others.

About Joost Kroon

At the age of just eleven, Joost Kroon made his debut in the professional circuit as a percussionist with the Rotterdams Volkstheater. He graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatory in 2003 with a 10 cum laude.

He played with Ken Stringfellow, JB Meijers, Candy Dulfer, Kane, Hans Dulfer, and Hans Teeuwen, among others.

His current projects are New Cool Collective, Sven Hammond, Matt Simons, Ladies Of Soul, and Studio Kroon. Joost is affiliated as a lecturer with the conservatories of Amsterdam and Haarlem.