User:Jazzcatnine

Gijs Andriessen is a Dutch videomaker and composer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born in 1957 in Den Haag, Netherlands. He finished the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 1981. Participated with the 30 minutes musicvideo "Views" at the first visual music festival in Los Angeles, 1981. In 1983 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he worked as a jazzpianist and composer of songs and soundtracks for films and television. In 1989 he worked as video director for the production companies "Spectrum" and "TV PLUS" directing documentaries and comercials. In 1992 he started a group with singer Marianna Leporace, performing his own songs. In 1995 he moved to Holland again, where he stayed until the end of 1997. Back in Rio, he renewed his jazz/pop group, now called "JazzCatNine". Two years later he founded JazzCatNine video and music productions, working as director,producer, cameraman and editor, simultaneously working as a composer of songs and soundtracks. Lately he has been working with contemporary dance groups, performances and the NGO People´s Palace projects, that works with children from the slums of Rio de Janeiro.