Jef Neve

Born in 1977 and classically trained at Leuven's Lemmensinstituut, the Flemish pianist has showcased his skills in everything from orchestras to funk-pop bands, but achieved his big breakthrough when he teamed up with bassist Piet Verbist and drummer Teun Verbruggen to form the Jef Neve Trio. Touring worldwide for more than 15 year now, Jef wrote 15 albums, more than 10 soundtracks for films, 2 classical piano concerti, chamber music, etc. Performing as solo pianist, with his band, as a soloist with classical orchestra's, as a conductor of his own orchestra,... He worked together with a whole list of musicians (ao. Branford Marsalis, Jamie Cullum, Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat, José James, Dré Pallemaerts, Richard Galliano, Typhoon, ) and his newest album is "That Old Feeling", an album where he invited 8 fantastic vocalists to sing a song on this album: Madeleine Peyroux, Robin Mckelle, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Sam Sparro, @Johnny Manuel, @Monique Harcum, @Sam Merrick and @Typhoon. For the live tour, he will ad his rhythm section of Nathan Wouters and @Jens Bouttery and horns by Teus Nobel, Andy Dhondt and Pieter Kindt, while Monique Harcum and @Sam Merrick will do the vocals. Jef wrote 3 piano books "Start", "2" and "Play" accompanied with his solo album Sharing Life Stories - The Music Of "Start 2 Play". In 2023, he launched 2 new books, @Reflections in Black and White.