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Chander Sardjoe studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, Netherlands, using after hours to play in clubs with local bands. Besides the curriculum offered at the institute, he studied a lot of non western music and started researching South Indian Classical music from 1994.
Under the guidance of the head of the New Music Dept. in Amsterdam, Rafael Reina Camara, he learned the solfege system and other basics of Indian classical music, before going to Bangalore and Madras in 1995. There he studied with mridangist N.G Ravi, student to grandmaster Sivaraman. After coming back to Amsterdam from this trip, he joined Steve Coleman’s band Secret Doctrine and played with 5 Elements and Metrics.
Experiments with extended rhythm sections resulted in the record "Ganesh" (1996) featuring grandmaster Umayalpuram Sivaraman on mridangam.
Always having taken a lot of time to "woodshed", slowly but surely the integration and application of non western musical concepts has developed into a very fluent yet articulated approach to the drums, that sounds deceptively easy.
Besides having played with ensembles that try to expand their musical language, chander has worked in a wide variety of musical situations, ranging from studiowork to opera, folkmusic to contemporary classical music.
Besides having done free-lance work, Chander has played and or recorded with (selection):
Steve Coleman and Five Elements U.S 1995
Steve Coleman and Metrics Canada 1995
Steve Coleman and Secret Doctrine Live radio recording Oosterpoort 1995
Aka Moon + Sivaraman CD recording 1996 + tour
Mark Turner, 1996, 1997; recording 1999
Lee Konitz 1998 L'archiduc+Jazz Middelheim 1999
Stephane Mercier +Seamus Blake European tour 1998, recording 1999
ASKO ensemble Sub for Peter Erskine 1999
Dreamtime + Beethoven Academie Premiere 2001
Kartet Bandmember since 1996 two recordings 1998, 1999
Tribu Bandmember since 1997 one recording 2000
Octurn Bandmember since 1999 three recordings 1999, 2000,2002.
Pierre van Dormael Recording 2000
"Trio Miguel Martinez, James Genus, C.Sardjoe" Recording 2000
Greg Osby, Jazz Middelheim 2001 sessions with: Robin Eubanks,David Gillmore,Brad Jones,Chris Potter, Jonathan Finlayson
Joachim Schonecker Trio recording 2002
Fabian Fiorini Trio
Aly Keita African Tour 2003
Since 1994 Chander has been teaching in conservatories worldwide and did masterclasses and extended workshops in renowned music institutes such as : -Sibelius Academy,Helsinki (Finland) -Musikhochschule Berlin(Germany) -Conservatory of Jyvaskylla, (Finland) -Aiguillon (France) and many more.
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