Friso van Wijck

Friso van Wijck (born in 1974) is a Dutch composer, drummer, percussionist and improviser based in Rotterdam. His music draws on contemporary composition, modern jazz, free improvisation and experimental rock and metal. He teaches composition and improvisation at Codarts Rotterdam Conservatory and works across both rigorously notated music and spontaneous performance.

He has composed for ensembles including Asko|Schönberg, Nieuw Ensemble and Doelen Ensemble. His own project Candy Container brings together detailed composition, electronic sound and the energy of collective improvisation. As a drummer, he has worked with Bulliphant and with musicians such as Dirk Serries and Benedict Taylor, moving between complex rhythmic frameworks and subtle percussive sound exploration.

On Creative Sources, Van Wijck performs on Hightailing (CS441), a Bulliphant quintet with Ruben Verbruggen, Bart Maris, Thijs Troch and Gonçalo Almeida, and Le Sud (CS780), a freely improvised trio with guitarist Dirk Serries and violist Benedict Taylor recorded live in Rotterdam on 29 September 2022. The two albums reveal contrasting settings for his interest in texture, collective listening and dynamic contrast.