Ronald Snijders

Ronald Snijders ( born April 8, 1951 in Paramaribo ) is a Dutch jazz musician and author of Surinamese origin. The flute is his main instrument.

Life

Snijders, son of Surinamese composers Eddy Snijders, began learning the flute at the age of ten years. Later he also played guitar, piano, percussion and saxophone. In 1970 he moved to the Netherlands to study at the Technical University Delft engineering. Then he stayed in Europe to work as a musician; First he played with Willem Breuker, whose collective deep he served until 1977. In 1973, he won the NOS Jazz Concours in Laren. Since 1977 he has focused on working with his own band, with which he also appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival, as in many European countries, but also in Western and Southern Africa, the Caribbean and North America. In his compositions he often draws on music of his homeland as Kaseko, but also to elements of pop and world music. With Kaseko he worked intensively during his musicological studies, which he completed from 1986 to 1991 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. On his albums he played alongside ethno-jazz also own a children's songs and the compositions of his father. He has also performed with the Metropole Orkest.

As an author he has submitted a biography of his father, but also short stories about the everyday life of Surinamese in the Netherlands.

He was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange- Nassau in 2001.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Natural Sources ( 1977)
• Quartz (1983 )
• Funky Flute (1985 )
• Portable Beach ( 1992)
• Kaseko Mundial! Live (1996 )
• Meet the World (1998)
• The Best Of (1999)
• Variyento (2004)

Book publications

• Surinaams van de straat (1994 ), ISBN 90-5333-282-0
• Suriname Kaseko melodies (1996 ), notes
• Geef mij maar een Suriname (1996 ), ISBN 90-5333-453- X
• De man met de piccolo (1998; biography of Eddy Snijders ), ISBN 90-5429-098-6