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Dr. Natalie Boeyink (born in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American bassist, violinist, pianist, composer and educator. She has worked primarily in jazz and Latin idioms as a bassist, and also as a classical pianist and violinist. In 2015, she joined the full-time jazz faculty at University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Education
Natalie completed her doctorate in music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and she holds a MM in Jazz Performance (University of Louisville), and a BM in Jazz Studies (Indiana University).

Music career
Boeyink began her musical journey studying classical violin at the age of five, followed by piano a few years later. Her jazz journey began in middle school, at first on the violin, but when her school jazz combo needed a bass player, she picked up the bass. She chose to focus on bass thereafter, and attended Indiana University with an emphasis on jazz bass.

Boeyink is the former director of the Attica Strings Project, based in Attica, Indiana.

Batuquê Trio is Natalie's latest collaboration, playing contemporary Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Caribbean jazz. The trio's first CD, Transparency, was released in January 2015.

Boeyink has shared the stage with Jamie Baum, Ingrid Jensen, Leni Stern, Reut Regev, Jovino Santos Neto, Joe Piscopo, David ‘Fathead’ Newman, Jon Hendricks, David Liebman and Lorraine Feather. She also performed with the Jerry Tolson Trio and Quartet, and with Jeff Sherman in Louisville, KY; and Bob Stright in Bloomington, IN.