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Jan-Bas Bollen (born 13 May 1961 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch composer, performer, bass player, educator and digital artist.

Education and career

Jan-Bas Bollen grew up in a family of professional musicians, pianist Thom Bollen and singer Hélène Alant. He first studied violin with Jan Bor and at age 9 and was the youngest participant in the Oscar Back Violin Competition (Amsterdam, 1971). He continued his studies with Herman Krebbers and Jeannelotte Herzberger at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. After a preliminary year with Joep Straesser at the Conservatorium of Utrecht in 1987-1988, he continued to study composition and electronic composition at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague with Gilius van Bergeijk and Theo Loevendie from 1988-1992 and also followed the Sonology course.

During his studies in The Hague, Bollen co-founded the Ensemble HEX together with British composers Richard Ayres and Geoffrey King in early 1990. Until its demise in 1996, Bollen remained artistic director and manager of the group and commissioned many new compositions.

From 1998-2017, he taught performance, composition, contemporary music analysis, Digital Media and improvisation at various institutions in the Netherlands, a.o. at Faculty for Art, Media and Technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts, Media Music at ArtEZ Conservatorium (Enschede) and Codarts Classical Music Academy (Rotterdam).