Magpie Music Dance Co.

Rozemarie Heggen studied double bass at the conservatories of Maastricht, Amsterdam and
The Hague. During her studies she has been the solo bassist of the National Youth
Orchestra of the Netherlands and the Jeunnesses Musicales Worldorchestra.
She has been working as a free-lance musician in all the main orchestras, chamber
orchestras and contemporary music groups in the Netherlands, such as The Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Asko/Schonberg Ensemble.
Nowadays she is mainly working as a performer of contemporary music and as an
improvising musician. She has been a member of experimental groups like the Maarten Altena
Ensemble, The Electric Aardvark and Het Nieuw Ensemble.
Over the years she has collaborated with several choreographers, a.o. Yoshiko Chuma(New
York), Gonnie Heggen(Amsterdam), Sylvain Prunenec(Paris). She has performed with the Ex
Orkest, and with electric guitarist Terrie Ex she has made a duo cd Fiets
which has been released november ‘02.
With Huib Emmer, Henk Bakker and Anne Laberge she collaborated on the ‘Kraakgeluiden’
cd for the Unsounds label which has been released september 2003.
She has been a member of the punk/rock/impro band The Ex from october ‘02 until
february ‘05 which resulted in the cd Turn released in september ‘04.