saxophonist and composer, bo van der werf is graduated from the amsterdams conservatory
he leads and writes for octurn, his main project
he also plays with jozef dumoulin’s band LIDLBOJ, with sanne van hek's NETWORK OF STOPPAGES and with the brussels jazz orchestra
He also leads his own small ensembles and plays free-lance with different groups
besides writing for octurn, bo also composes music for films, for dance and for contemporary classical ensembles
he recently directed his first documentary movie ' satyajit ray negatives', which was shown at many major film festivals (teheran film festival, buenos aires film festival, bombay international film festival, festival du documentaire de paris, tiburon film festival california, mediawave budapest , kolkata film festival, ... )
you can watch this film on-line:
