Niels Van Heertum

Niels Van Heertum is a Belgian euphonium player working in jazz and improvised music. He studied jazz euphonium at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and leads the acoustic quartet Veder. In 2018 he received the Sabam Jazz award for young talent. He was a founding member of Ifa y Xango, which won the Young Jazz Talent contest of the Gent Jazz Festival in 2011. His first solo record, JK's Kamer +50.92509° +03.84800°, came out in January 2017, followed that October by Veder's Evergreen on Aspen Edities, with Joachim Badenhorst, Eivind Lønning and Ruben Machtelinckx.