Welcome to the website of Frans Vermeerssen, saxophonist, arranger and composer, based in the Netherlands.
 

NEWS

•  Few gigs, but composing the one-hour-long Stenen Man Suite. The music is to be performed live to the film by Frits Boersma about Caspar de Robles, the 16th Century Governor for the lowlands. The music will be played by the ca. 45-piece Frysk Fanfare Orkest, with acoustic bass and guitar added, and also features a boy soprano singer. Premiere is expected to take place in September 2013.
  
   
•  TALKING COWS  plays some concerts, in Friesland and Gent, Belgium. Check out www.talkingcows.nl for more tourdates and other information.

• Read this nice column by Kevin Whitehead in Jazz Bulletin 84, september 2012: