MILAN VERBIST
Crowdfunding for my debut album!
To fund the production and release of my first album, I have started a crowdfunding! Please feel free to contribute: here are different return services per amount such as a CD, a lesson with me, be a main sponsor, a private concert... It will be a trio album featuring Toon Rumen (bass) and Jens Meijer (drums) and will be released on Origin Records.
Click here to go to the crowdfunding
UPDATE 19/12: We're at 50%! Half way through but still some more to go! Feel free to keep spreading the word! Thanks to everyone who already donated and shared!
2024 Fall Tour
From 1 October, I will play a number of concerts in trio with Toon Rumen on double bass and Jens Meijer on drums. Come to one or more of these occasions to share some music with us, including new compositions and arrangements I've made over the past few months.
For my full concert schedule, visit my Agenda.
Flamenco Jazz Summit CD will be released on August 16, 2024.
I'm very happy to a part of my father Piet Verbist's band 'Flamenco Jazz Summit'. The music was recorded last December, and will be released on Seattle-based label 'Origin Records' in August!
Very happy to announce I won the 2nd place in the '7 virtual Jazz Club' online competition in the under 25 years old category. I sent in my composition 'Dark Days, Darker Nights' which I recorded for Klara with Tristan Baars and Arne Lagatie in 2023. There were some nice comments from the jury:
"The trio works together like a well-oiled machine. The spontaneous music flows from one musician to another with facility and grace. The way the repeating motifs are embellished keeps the music engaging and captivating." - Edoardo Pappi
"I've been very impressed. We've seen Milan before (…), it's just such a joy to see a musician growing and learning along the way. This was a very competent and professional performance. Lovely, swinging performance that I was very happy to hear." - John Fenton
Thanks to 7virtualJazzClub Edition 2024!
Concert Agenda November/December 2023
Upcoming Concerts with Piet Verbist Flamenco Jazz Summit
Very happy to announce four more concerts in Malaga (ES), Antwerp, Lokeren and Heist-op-den-Berg! The concert on 15/12/2023 will be a live audio/video captation.
3 upcoming trio concerts in September and November 2023!
I would like to announce these three concerts in the coming months. All info can be found by clicking on the link on the 'concerts' page of my website!
Upcoming concerts with Trio Verbist/Baars/Lagatie (September-December 2023)
Concerts coming up in May 2023
We've got some concerts coming up at the end of this month with Trio Verbist/Baars/Lagatie!
We hope to see you somewhere:
For the concert at Vagant, contact devagant.antwerpen@gmail.com for free reservations, for the concert at JazzZolder, visit www.jazzzolder.be.
Welcome!
Release concert video 'De Twintigers' (13/3/23)
Today, the concert video is released on VRT MAX. Click here to listen on YouTube! I'll also be in the spotlight at Radio Klara this week:
- in Music Matters, Monday until Thursday around 12h30
- on Friday 17/3 the concert will be broadcast on Klara + interview
De Twintigers: 10 young promising musicians on Klara in 2023
I'm very happy to announce I am selected as one of ten young musicians in VRT Klara's 'De Twintigers 2023'. I recorded a concert at VRT's Studio Toots with Tristan Baars (double bass) and Arne Lagatie (drums) in the beginning of February. It will be released online (VRT MAX) on the 13th of March 2023. That same week, I will be interviewed on Klara! I'm looking forward to share all of this with you, I'm really grateful for this opportunity! I'll keep you posted. (13/2/23)
Milan Verbist invites Bert Joris
I'm very happy to announce I'll be playing with Bert Joris at Izzy Jazz Club, Bruges on 3rd of March 2023. The concert starts at 20h. Info & tickets.
Line up:
Bert Joris: trumpet
Milan Verbist: piano
Piet Verbist: double bass
Jesse Dockx: drums
Thanks to Kobe Gregoir for booking us!
Jazz Middelheim 2022
We had an amazing concert at Jazz Middelheim with 'Flight of the Black Zebra ft. Jakob Bro'. It was such an amazing experience to play with Jakob Bro and to play at this legendary festival in my hometown Antwerp.
Review from Knack Focus (in dutch):
Flight of the Black Zebra feat. Jakob Bro (***)
'Ook dit jaar zette Jazz Middelheim een project op het getouw met studenten van het Antwerpse conservatorium. Mentor van dienst: gitarist Jakob Bro. De minzame Deen kwam in mei naar ons land om enkele dagen te brainstormen met Cedric De Lat (trompet), Milan Verbist (piano), Jasper De Roeck (contrabas) en Simon Van Brandt (drums).
Projecten als deze kunnen al eens tegenvallen: sommige studenten bevriezen door de stress, soms deugen de composities niet. Net daarom was deze editie een uitschieter. Trompettist De Lat kreeg de ondankbare taak om in de schoenen van Bro's trompetbroeder Tomasz Stanko te staan, maar hij deed het met verve. De gelegenheidsband wist de typische ECM-sound van klaterende bergbeekjes uitstekend te vatten. En Bro? Zijn gitaar klonk naar goede gewoonte als een oude radio die van Radio Luxembourg naar Radio Zagreb en terug wordt gedraaid, eindeloos inventief met zijn gelaagde sounds. Well done, chaps, well done.' (Knack Focus)
June 2022: I Graduated!
In june 2022, I played my graduation concert at the 'Kleine Zaal' in DeSingel. After five years of studying at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp, I was really happy to play this final concert with Tristan Baars (double bass) and Arne Lagatie (drums). There are some video's, which you can find here!
Playing at Jazz Middelheim 2022 with Jakob Bro!
I'm very happy to announce I'll be playing at Jazz Middelheim on 15/8/2022 with 'Flight of the Black Zebra' featuring the one and only Jakob Bro!
Line up: Jakob Bro (guitar), Cedric De Lat (trumpet), Milan Verbist (piano), Jasper De Roeck (double bass), Simon Van Brandt (drums)
Antwerp Jazz Orchestra olv. Bert Joris, feat. Chris Potter
Welcome!
Cobalt Trio: 2nd place in '7 Virtual Jazz Club'!
I'm really happy and honored to announce that Cobalt Trio won the 2nd place in the 2021 edition of the '7 Virtual Jazz Club'! I submitted the track Milan's Blues.
I'm looking forward to enjoy the prizes, together with my fellow band members Wolf De Backer (bass) and Klaas De Somer (drums).
Solo Transcriptions & Lead Sheets For Sale!
In the past years, I made a lot of transcriptions: lead sheets, solo's... They are for sale on my payhip account, which you can find here! More sheets will be added regularly!
Solo Piano January & February 2022
Verbist & Zn. @ AMOR
Streaming Concerts
28 October: Blue Bop Quintet @ De Nieuwe Vrede
29/10/2020
On 28/10/20, the Blue Bop Quintet in the concert hall of 'De Nieuwe Vrede' in Berchem, Antwerp.
Here you can find some video's of the concert.
← The band logo (designed by Jennifer Bogaert)
Blue Bop Quintet: West End Blues
Kwaadham Sessions
I played a solo set on a beautiful Fazioli grand piano, during the 'KwaadHam Sessions': two weekends of solo piano concerts at 'Quatre Mains Klaviercentrum' in Ghent.
I'm very thankful for the opportunity to play at such a nice place and on a first class piano!
