Wouter BERLAEN Electric & acoustic bass

He studied classical piano in the Music Academy of Deinze from the age of 9 until he was 18 years, started to play bass guitar by himself at the age of 16 in parallel with other studies.

After graduating from those schools he went to the Royal Conservatory in Brussels to follow the bass lesson with Bart DE NOLF.

His versatile taste covers all kinds of music from funk, jazz, blues, rockabilly, fusion, salsa , musical...... to experimental stuff and dance music. This resulted in +/- 500 concerts in Belgium , Holland, Germany, France, etc..

He had the opportuniti to tour in Taiwan, playing with Chi-pin HSIEH and Kai-ya CHANG.

As a well-demanded electric and double-bass player he has been working free-lance with various jazz artists : Fabrice ALLEMAN, Paolo LOVERI, Erwin VANN, Laurent BLONDIAU, Marc GODFROID...

He also played the support act of Paul MOTIAN and the electric bebop band.

With the Wannes PEREMANS Trio he ended up in the final of the International Jazz Contest of Hoeilaart in Belgium (8 jazzbands chosen out of 55 bands all over the world).

He is also a regular live and studio session bass player with various pop artists and played with Kevin ARMSTRONG (David Bowie , Youssou N'dour , Keziah Jones) and Ariff DURVESH (Sting , Nithin' Sawhney , Wendy & Lisa). Further on he played on various singles and albums for various Flemish pop artists who signed with EMI music, VIRGIN, BMG/ARIOLA, ARCADE records, SONY music...etc.

He also played with the quartet of Charly D'INVERNO, Steve HOUBEN, Jacques PELZER, Michael BLASS, Ivan PADUART, Paolo LOVERI....

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