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born in Being fifteen she switched to trombone. In the meantime she was playing: electronic organ. And in 1987 she graduated at the Conservatory- Maastricht ‘Electronic Organ’ Keyboard/ Synthesizer. Three years later she graduated at the Conservatory Hilversum where she had studied with Bart van Lier ‘Trombone Jazz’. The final concert was a delicious menu of all kinds of musical styles. She presented herself as the all-round musician she is: with an Original Old Style band, her bebop quintet Jazz It Up with saxophone player/composer Carolyn Breuer, big band, Brazilian- and salsa music; on both tenor-en bass trombone, arranger/copyist. Her passion: ‘big band’ was fed since the age of sixteen in several big bands, (Conservatory Big Band Maastricht, From 1990 on she played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra directed by Wil Salden and the Glenn Miller Memorial Orchestra France (trombone/bass trombone/ close-harmony choir). With both orchestras she toured through the Benelux, Concerning pop music she played in the Belushi Memorial Blues Brothers Band, besides playing in many other Dutch en German pop groups (on keyboard, trombone and being arranger). In 1994 her life would change completely because she stayed in the On In She played with the orchestras of: * José Nogueras * Edwin Mulenze * Ismael Rivera híjo y Rafi Cortíz híjo * singer and composer Pedro Arroyo * Amuni Nacer and other people, giving concerts and making TV shows. In October 1994 she introduced her Jazz Quartet at the Chivas Regall Jazz Festival in Her performance with Juan Pablo Torres was seen as stimulance for female musicians. Concerts at the Conservatory of San Juan, different jazz clubs in After her return to the Concerts and a five week tour on a cruise ship in Shortly after, she became the musical director of Big Band Beeg, Grevenbicht. She would transcribe, arrange, and direct a Mambo-project: Fiesta Latina with guest musicians: from Venezuela: Javier Plaza (vocals and percussion) and Gerardo Rosales (percussion) , Jorge Martinez (piano) from Cuba, Randal Corsen (piano) Curacao, Liber Torriente (percussion), Cuba, La Tigresa (percussion) Holland. That’s how May Peters founded a mambo-base in Limburg by workshops and concerts in Grevenbicht, May 1998, the Royal Dutch Embassy of the After her tour in September 1999 with Lucas van Merwijk & his Cubop City Big Band to the Dutch Antilles, she returned to From 2000 until 2003 she was the musical director from the Big Band Swinging Sounds Hoevelaken. Ever since 2001 she plays trombone in the Extended Band of Surinam flute player Ronald Snijders, with whom she recorded several compact discs. She gave concerts on several little- and big, national and international stages (North Sea Jazz Festival ’02 After half a year of managing the Ronald Snijders Black Straight Music she started Coquí Promotions , an agency for salsa groups. F.e. from Venezuela: Javier Plaza and Son Risa, Grupo Sabroso and Kimbiza featuring Yma América. The last fifteen years she played in Europe in Latin/ South American orchestras like Fra Fra Sound, the New Cool Collective, from She shared Dutch stages with famous international artists like saxophone player Boots Randolph, salsa singer/composer Trina Medina and guitarist Path Matheny. But she played also in the Musical the Pink Crocodiles written by Haye van der Heyden & Martin van Dijk on accordion and trombone, and in the “New Swing Show” of Mieke Stemerdink. In the winter of 2004-2005 she did several concerts and TV shows in San Juan-Puerto Rico, with Los Pleneros del Quinto Olivo and William Cepeda. Since 1984 May Peters was not only a teacher of keyboard- electronic organ and trombone at several music schools, she also taught at the Conservatory of Alkmaar Trombone Jazz Ever since 2002 she is also teaching Spanish at the ‘ She made several recordings with a.o. The Glenn Miller Memorial (bass trombone), Ronald Snijders ( Bijlmerjazz, ), Eddie Veldman (Opo Yéyé), Lesley Joseph, From August 2006-May 2007 she was a member of the Department Jazz and Caribbean Music at the Conservatory of Puerto Rico, where she teaches Trombone Jazz and Caribbean Music. Being the trombonist of the Orchestra Elías López she plays with Luís Perico Ortíz. They accompanied Puerto Rican artists like Andy Montañez, Lalo Rodriguez, José Nogueras and others. January until July 2008 she stays in Curaçao, where she participated at the Festival di Tumba 2008. She is organizing a Music Education Program for Children home Brakke Put. She was a guest in the Television show Morú Bon Dia and did successful workshops, concerts and readings for the Fundashión di Músikos and the International School of Music. Besides being a freelance musician, May is the reviewer Music for the Antilliaans Dagblad, In September she gave some lectures about Caribbean Music and directed the big band at the University of Alabama Huntsville, USA. In November 2008 she was the director of the salsa show on Kleurrijk festival in Holland. From December 2008 on she will be in Puerto Rico. More information: mob Puerto Rico :+1-787-6454038 mob Curaçao: +5999-6615905 tel/fax Netherlands: +31-475-481316 mob Netherlands: +31-630667086 SKYPE: may.peters3 To see May Peters play, take a look at these videos:
A descarga with her collegues of the Gran Combo of Puerto Rico during their concert in Amsterdam Nov 2008 ,
Igmar la Reine accompanied by Tune on theTumba Festival 2008,
Solos Connexión Latina, Germany 2002 :
Television show with Lucas van Merwijk & the Cubop City Big Band, the Netherlands 2003:
Radio program Voces dedicated to May Peters ( http://www.informarn.nl/temas/cultura/cul070919_trombonista Interview (internet) www.noticias.nl zoek ‘Vaya Mae’ | ||
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December 19, 2010
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