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COEN MOLENAAR

KEYS/ PIANO/ PRODUCER/ COMPOSER/ TEACHER

foto by Willem Wijnen

Coen Molenaar is a fulltime musician, composer, teacher and producer working worldwide and in a wide range of styles like jazz, fusion, dance, funk, R&B, rock, neo-soul.
Still touring with the legendary Jan Akkerman and his own groups like Tristan , The New Conrad Miller Trio and On Impulse. Also releases neo-classical solo piano pieces under his alter-ego Mylleri

Studied jazz-piano, with Bert van de Brink, Jasper van het Hof and Michiel Borstlap at the Utrecht Conservatory
between 1989-1996. Working as a piano/ Ableton teacher at the Haarlem Conservatory since 2011.

Worked/ toured and recorded a.o.

with Jan Akkerman, Heston (USA) , Randy Brecker (USA), Jamal Thomas (USA)
Chris Hinze, Eddy de Clercq, Guthrie Govan(UK), Deborah Carter(USA), Berget Lewis, Do (piano on candlelight version Heaven)
, Edsilia Rombley, Brown Hill, Josee Koning, Carole Denis/ Nick van Gelder (ex Jamiroquai) (UK)
, Ghazem Batamuntu (USA), and various Dutch singers: Lisa Noya,
Angela Groothuizen, Julya Lo.Ko , Des'ray (Desiree Manders).

Concerts Jan Akkerman

Concerts Tristan

Concerts Niels van der Gulik - Een ode aan Ramses

Concerts Yasam Hancilar Band

Recordings/ releases a.o :

Mylleri, Le Printemps du Coeur (4 parts), (March 2022)
Mylleri, L'Hiver du Coeur (4 parts), (December 2021)
Tristan, What Could Possibly Go Wrong (April 2021)
Yasam Hancilar Band, Rush Hour (September 2020)
The New Conrad Miller Trio, Con Alma (January 2020)
Jan Akkerman , Close Beauty (October 2019)
RD , Sum of its Parts (September 2019
) Tristan, The Spice of Five (April 2019)
The New Conrad Miller Trio, Live@Injazz Rotterdam (March 2019)
Jamal Thomas, Funk Don’t Move (2018)
The New Conrad Miller Trio, Sounding Silence (2018)
Heston , transparency (2017)
Mr Richard Parker, Road of hope (2017)
Writersday, Desert songs (2017)
Tristan, live in concert (2017)
Tristan, lifestyle (2016)
MYCA, all fish in the sea (2016)
AINA , de horizon (2016)
Mr Richard Parker , Road of hope (2016, single)
Writersday, Picking flowers on the moon (2016)
Definite Option , while you were sleeping (2015)
On Impulse, Dernier cru (2015)
Tristan, 2nd Phase (2015)
Tristan, Full power (2014)
On Impulse , On Impulse (2013)
Erica Young, Angel (2012)
Jan Akkerman , legendary concerts (2011)
Brown Hill, it’s personal (2011)
Jan Akkerman, minor details, (2011)
Sebastiaan Cornelissen trio feat. Randy Brecker (2011)
Rene Engel Group (2011)
Rayn Bechoe (2011)
Eddy de Clercq, Musique Exotique (2010)
Christmas cover up, with Eddy de Clercq, silent night (2010)
Inge M, I see you (2010)
Duprix, Here I am (2010)
Ruben Hoeke, Coexist (2010)
Brown Hill/ Hitmeister D, will you ever know (2010)
Chris Hinze/Claron mc Fadden, art of baroque (2009)
Bert Barten , Don Quichot, (2009)
Duprix, ep (2009)
Deborah J Carter; blue notes & red shoes ( 2009)
Jan Akkerman, dvd live in concert, the hague jazz festival 2007( 2008)
Jan Akkerman (live in concert 2007)
Jan Akkerman, cu2; live in tokyo, 2007
Carole Denis, ep4b, as the world goes round, 2007)
Chris Hinze , africa impressions ( 2008)
Chris Hinze combination live ( 2008)
Daniel Sensit, part of you (2007)
Berget Lewis , Finally, (2007))
Orange Snow, 2007 (hammond),
Deborah Carter (Daytripper, a Beatles tribute, 2006),
Des'ray ("classics" 2006)
Ger Vos (welcome to my world, 2005)
Chris Hinze combination ("back on the map",2dvd & cd, 2004),
Deborah carter (round moonlight, 2001,/ girl talking' 2004),
Jan Akkerman (I'm in the mood, 2003)
Do (Heaven 2002),
Reno Steba (secret passage, 2000),
U-man (hate to fake, 2002)

Coen’s equipment:
Yamaha motif xs8, xf6, fender rhodes mark i, hammonds m100, l100 and x5,
studio electronics se1x, additional roland & korg , ableton push 2, synths, neko 76 (signature),

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