Henk Zwerver

Henk Zwerver is a Dutch guitarist active in the Amsterdam free-improvisation community since 2015, following a long musical career across a variety of styles. His work with acoustic and electric guitar centres on small-group interaction, listening and the changing possibilities of spontaneous collective composition.

He has played with Ada Rave, Marta Warelis, Luís Vicente, Ziv Taubenfeld, Carlo Mascolo, George Hadow, Raoul van der Weide and other improvisers. With Raoul van der Weide he organised the All Strings Nights, a series of meetings for acoustic string players and vocalists that brought together musicians from Amsterdam and beyond. Zwerver has also participated in several ad hoc formations and collaborative performances.

On Creative Sources, Henk Zwerver is credited on Live (CS433), For Oumuama (CS518), Music from any moment (CS530), midnight tea suite (CS577) and Triangle Moments (CS790). The sessions document his electric and acoustic guitar in multiple small groups.