Simone Honijk & Durk Hijma

Since 2003, Simone has been performing regularly with her Simone Honijk Quartet or as a guest vocalist with various jazz ensembles on jazz and cultural stages and at festivals in the Netherlands and abroad.

She released 4 albums   2007 MOSAIC with her quartet and guest player Niels Tausk (trumpet/flugelhorn) ,  2008 INTERPLAY (The music of pianist Bill Evans) , a duo album with Dutch Boy Edgar Winner 2008 pianist Bert van de Brink,    2017 From This Moment On  with  her quartet and guest player Ellister van der Molen). 2024  A Touch of Cinema and Jazz, the music of Johnny Mandel with sextet (Durk Hijma: guitar, Thomas Winther Andersen; double bass,  Joost Kesselaar: drums,  Natalio Sued: tenor/clarinet , Ellister van der Molen: trumpet/flugelhorn). 

Guitarist Durk Hijma  plays with a great number of established musicians, with the dutch JOC orchestra and was a member of the European Jazz Youth Orchestra. 

Durk is a teacher at the conservatory of Amsterdam and ARTEZ Zwolle.