SAX, CLARINET & FLUTE
Philip De Schutter (Antwerp, 1984)

Sax, clarinet and flute lessons are possible from the age of 8 years old.

Lessons can be followed in English, Dutch or French.

Contact Philip: 0473 62 99 14 – philipdeschutter@gmail.com – Website Philip

Philip De Schutter started playing music at a very young age. When Santa Claus brings him a toy keyboard, he starts replaying the little music pieces that he just heard. A few years later, he goes for his first piano lessons at the Music Academy in Zandhoven. But the lessons are too classical, with too many rules. He decides to stop the lessons.

Two years later, his father gives him a Jazz CD. Philip falls in love with that music. He absolutely wants to learn how to play the Jazz! His parents buy him a saxophone and he picks up the lessons, Jazz lessons this time, at the Music Academy in Lier. Jef Neve is one of his teachers. He’s so full of Jazz and Sax that he quickly decides that he wants to make this his living. As a result, he graduates in June 2009 as Master in Music, for Jazz Sax, Clarinet and Flute, at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven. His teachers, amongst others, are Frank Vaganée, Tom Mahieu, Ron Van Rossum, Dre pallemaerts, Nic Thys, Pierre Van Dormael, Bart Van Caenegem, Lode Mertens … He also took workshops with Phil Woods, Dave Liebman, Toots Thielemans, Kurt Van Herck, Mark Turner, John Ruocco, Maria Schneider, Bert Joris, Bill Carrothers, Mark Levine, …

Philip teaches since 2007, in private lessons as well as in various schools and workshops (workshops in Sint Niklaas, Kreamuze, academy of Lier, academy of Grimbergen, music school in Tremelo, academy of Antwerp, academy of Turnhout …).

Philip participated in various projects: Oliver Nelson Project, Cannonball Adderley Project, Phil & Quill Project, school projects with Nic Thys and Dre Pallemaerts, Tripple Big Band Projects. He also played with Frank Vaganée, Jean-Paul Estiévenart, Toni Vitacolonna, Stijn Wauters, Joey Lim, Natan Wouters, Lara Rosseel, David Broeders, Janos Bruneel, …

Meanwhile, Philip continues studying the composition at the Lemmensinstituut.