Being fascinated by drums and percussion since he was a child, Ruben van Rompaey was born (1978) in the city of Bergen op Zoom, Holland.
Ruben started to play drums at a very early age and gradually turned out to be a drummer and percussionist. Be [+]Being fascinated by drums and percussion since he was a child, Ruben van Rompaey was born (1978) in the city of Bergen op Zoom, Holland.
Ruben started to play drums at a very early age and gradually turned out to be a drummer and percussionist. Besides his early-developed passion for Jazz music, he immediately developed a big interest in ethnical musical styles and sounds. At the same time he was constantly being stimulated by the influential Turkish multi-instrumentalist and musicologist Yasar Saka.
During his study at the Rotterdam Conservatory Holland, Ruben made interesting musical voyages to cities like New York and New Orleans, where he stayed for a while to check the musical scenes. Meanwhile, he already worked as a professional drums/percussion artist within well-known Turkish groups in Holland, like the Dostlar Band, as well as being active as a Jazz drummer.
May 1999 Ruben won the Tama Drummers Award, and March 2000 he won the Erasmus Rotterdam Jazz Award, playing his own compositions. After having obtained his Master Degree (cum laude) in Drums and Percussion, Ruben travelled to Istanbul, Turkey, where he lived for a while and was classically trained by the well-known percussion master Alpay Dinletir. The playing of major Turkish percussionists like Yasar Akpence and Mehmet Akatay influenced him.
Ruben performed at a variety of international Jazz festivals, which has brought him to countries like Turkey, West Africa, USA and Japan.
Nowadays Ruben is very active as a professional drums and percussion artist and is working as a teacher at the departments of Jazz and World Music of the Rotterdam Conservatory, Holland.
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