JINA WAS BORN IN HOLLAND TO HER DANISH MOTHER AND INDONESIAN FATHER. HER PARENTS MET AND MARRIED IN LONDON. WITH SUCH AN INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND IT IS HARDLY SURPRISING THAT SHE HAS A BROAD MUSICAL ORIENTATION. IN HER CAPACITY OF PIANO/KEYBOARD PLAYER AND ACCORDIONIST SHE TOURED THE WORLD WITH DIFFERENT GROUPS. NOWADAYS SHE CAN VERY OFTEN BE FOUND SOMEWHERE IN THE NETHERLANDS, PLAYING WITH GROUPS SUCH AS VENUS TUNES LIVE AND GIBRALTAR. SHE STUDIED JAZZ AND LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC WITH JAN HARTONG IN ROTTERDAM, JAZZ PIANO WITH ROB VAN KREEVELD AND COMPOSITION WITH THEO VERBEY AND ANDRÉ DOUW. SHE WROTE ALL KINDS OF PIECES AND FILM MUSIC, FOR EXAMPLE FOR SOME FILMS BY DIRECTOR EDDY TERSTALL.

WITH HIS OBOE JORIS VISITED TEACHERS SUCH AS EDUARD WESLY (EX-CALEFAX). HE GOT SAXOPHONE LESSONS FROM PAUL STOCKER, MARC SCHOLTEN AND OTHERS. WITH HIS TENORA – MADE BY PAU ORRIOLS NEAR BARCELONA – HE KNOCKED AT THE DOOR OF CATALAN TENORISTS LIKE JORDI MOLINA, JAUME VILÀ AND FERRAN MIÀS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF DIFFERENT ORCHESTRAS AND ENSEMBLES, SUCH AS COBLA LA PRINCIPAL D'AMSTERDAM, OF WHICH HE WAS THE ARTISTIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE LEADER DURING SOME TEN YEARS AND WITH WHICH HE MADE WELL RECEIVED CDS AND GOT AWARDS LIKE THE CREU DE SANT JORDI.

AS A DOUBLE BASS PLAYER PIETER WAS TRAINED AT THE AMSTERDAM CONSERVATORY. HIS BIG MUSICAL APPETITE BROUGHT HIM TO ORCHESTRAS SUCH AS THE DUTCH BALLET ORCHESTRA AND THE NORTH NETHERLANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, AND TO ARTISTS LIKE TANIA KROSS, ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ROSENBERG TRIO. IN THE THEATRE WORLD HE ACCOMPANIED MARIJKE BOON, LENETTE VAN DONGEN, LOES LUCA, RENÉ GROOTHOF AND OTHERS. HE WAS A STEADY FOUNDATION OF GROUPS LIKE THE WORLD ORCHESTRA, COBLA LA PRINCIPAL D'AMSTERDAM AND QUINTETO BAILONGO. PIETER ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE START OF A POPSCHOOL IN KOSOVO, VIA MUSICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS.

DIRKJAN GRADUATED AS AN IMPROVISING PERCUSSIONIST AT THE AMSTERDAM SWEELINCK CONSERVATORY AND THE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS OF ARNHEM. AFTER THAT HE STARTED COMBINING JAZZ WITH WORLD MUSIC. DIRKJAN HAS PLAYED WITH NUMEROUS JAZZ AND OTHER GROUPS, SUCH AS: THE DEEP RIVER QUARTET, THE PATRICK SEDOC TRIO, DEXTET (WITH DAVID KWEKSILBER), SHADES OF SOUND (LATIN JAZZ), THE AKKI HAAK BAND, MATTHEW IN BOSTON (FUNKY ORGAN GROOVES), ALL THAT JAZZ AND SOUL (HAMMOND QUARTET), KUIFJE IN AFRIKA (TRADITIONAL MALINKE MUSIC), THE JEWISH MUSIC BAND, THE BENONIES (ITALIAN FILM MUSIC), SOBRE MANERA, THE AMSTEL BIG BAND, PAOLO PASSIONATA, THE SUN PROPHETS, TIPICO TAMPOCO/PARECE PICANTE AND SOWETO AND SOUL.