Bram Stadhouders was born into a musical family 1987 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He is interested in atmospheric music through improvisation and composition. He plays guitar, guitarsyntesizer and laptop.

He's active in various projects, and he's very concentrated on creating his own music, through his duo with Onno Govaert, and also a larger band which is in development right now. A new CD of this will be recorded and released soon. He also makes a solo produced album every now and then.

When he was 6 years old his father started a long and intensive period of teaching him to play the guitar. In this time he got 2 classical guitar awards at the age of 8 and 9, plus performing experience at a young age.

At the age of 11 he got his first electric guitar, with which he played in a rockband called Grab. With members of his age at that time, they played in important venues and festivals, there were a few documentaries and tv-shows about them, made some videoclips, and they were in the local newspapers quite often... They played some originals and covers. It was fun to see, too... During that time, Bram also played with Noel Redding, the bassist of Jimi Hendrix, at the National Guitar Awards.

At 12 he totally got into jazz after seeing a video from the Pat Metheny Group. He started exploiting his dads jazz vinyl and cd collection, and started a jazzband called Solar, with which he played a lot of gigs, jazzfestivals, in the Heinken Music Hall, Jazz in Duketown, opening gig before Jan Akkerman and Russel Malone, the winning on the Prinses Christina Concours. at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2002 and much more.

At 17, when the jazzband stopped, he played a lot on jam sessions and gigs with great dutch jazz musicians like Harmen Fraanje and Hein van de Geyn. He had a lot of great experiences in the jam sessions in Tilburg, where there were always progressive musicians who were feeling the need to go further than standard jazz. In these times he recorded a soundscape-like record and a trio-record with improvisations.

He's also always been into electronics, recording his own music since he was 14, and seeking for other ways of playing his guitar. He's now studying composition at the Utrecht School of Music and Technology, but he's living in Amsterdam. He's playing a lot with his new personal set of guitar and guitarsynthesizer connected to his laptop, which provides a totally new galaxy of sounds.

Bram Stadhouders has gained national recognition in his homecountry Netherlands. In 2008 he was chosen as a "Young VIP”, the most prestigious prize for upcoming improvisers, followed by a tour through Hollands most important stages.

Bram is always seeking for artistic development and creating music that moves people to higher emotional levels.

List of prizes Bram has won:

1997 - Brabants Gitaarconcours
1998 - Brabants Gitaar Ensemble Concours
1999 - National Guitar Awards
2002 - Prinses Christina Concours
2007 - Young VIP tour