Koen Smits

Trumpet player and audio engineer from the Netherlands, who is a performing and recording artist with Mudita, Sjoerd van Eijck’s OAK, The Paradox Jazz Ochestra, the Hornaments and the Red Light Jazz Society, to name but a few. He also works together with the Metropole Orchestra, the Danish Radio Bigband, and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra among others, and participates in various television productions. Koen is professor of Trumpet, Jazz and Pop at the HKU Conservatory in Utrecht.

De meeste instrumenten verklanken je inspiratie, maar mijn Van Laar Oiram Light gééft me inspiratie.

It is normal that an instrument expresses one’s inspiration. My Van Laar OIRAM light does so much more – it gives me inspiration.