Website: http://www.hellbreker.nl 
E-mail: willem@hellbreker.nl

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Willem Hellbreker is a prominent player of  straight-ahead jazz in the Dutch jazz-scene. He plays hardbop and mainsteam-jazz as played by Dexter Gordon, Hank Mobley and Stan Getz.

He also composes which gives his music a contemporary sound.
He is well in demand by many dutch bigbands. 

Willem studied saxophone at the  Rotterdam Conservatory. In '94 he toured through the USA and played with Bob Brookmeyer and preformed in the famous jazzclub the Village Vanguard in New York . He studied at the  Berklee college of music in Boston, USA. 

In '95 he gave a concert with Rotterdams Philharmonic Orchestra and Stevie Wonder.
Recently he toured through Russia with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. 

Finalist of the Nederlands jazzconcours '96 en winner of the  Dordrecht jazz-price.

Willem Hellbreker Quartet  played on the Northseajazz festival of 2001.  Since then he recorded 3 cds under his own name. In 2006 he recorded a live-cd that was very well recieved.
Willem plays or has played with  Stevie Wonder, Bob Brookmeyer, Bert van den Brink, John Engels, Erik Vloeimans, Hans Dulfer, Denise Janah, Deborah Carter and is currently a member of the Holland Bigband.