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Izak
Boom
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© Photo by Pauliina
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Until 1998, Aina's pianist and composer Izak
Boom combined a career in music with teaching
activities. After that he toured the Netherlands
with the popular theatre shows of the Rotterdam
Berini's and Youp van ‘t Hek.
A musical Jack-of-all-trades, Izak masters a
variety of stringed instruments, like the guitar,
mandolin and 5 string banjo, as well as the
piano. He accompanied artists performing in
a host of different genres. Izak is also an
active member of his Dutch group Vals Plat and
Ibo & de Alibi’s.
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Singer Pauliina May is Aina's Finnish face.
She was raised in a musical environment and
refined her skills at the conservatories of
Helsinki and Rotterdam. She graduated from Rotterdam
Conservatory in 2000.
Through the years, she explored the worlds of
jazz, salsa, Argentinean tango and Finnish traditional
dance music. Pauliina has performed at international
festivals and in jazz clubs with various orchestras
and big bands from Finland, Estonia, Romania
and the Netherlands.
Pauliina May
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© Photo by Izak Boom
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After studying for 3 years to become a civil
servant, Sybren van Doesum decided it was time
to do something else, and devoted his life to
making music.
It was not so surprising as it looks, though.
Born in a musical family, he started playing
music at eight. After two years of general musical
education, he chose the trumpet to be his instrument
of passion.
Now, almost twenty years later Sybren has a
lot of different things to play. Besides Aina,
he plays Jazz, Latin-jazz, pop, funk, chansons
and theatre music. In each genre his own style
is clearly recognisable.
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Mikko Karjalainen
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Bass player Mikko Karjalainen
brings along a second Finnish face to Aina. After
studying jazz double bass in the Kokkola Conservatory
in Finland he came to Netherlands to continue
his studies. He graduated from the Conservatory
of Amsterdam in May 2005. In Finland Mikko did
a few theater projects, a lot of American and
Finnish dance music shows and also a project based
on the text of Kalevala composed by Markku Suominen
and Sakari Kukko. He also performed and recorded
briefly with the famous Finnish-Spanish-Senegalese
folk music group Piirpauke. In addition to his
involvement with Aina, Mikko is busy with a musicology
study at the University of Amsterdam. He can be
heard at the brand new cd of the Dutch pop group
Room
Eleven as well as gigging with various jazz
groups around the Netherlands.
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