Allard Buwalda (www.allardbuwalda.nl) is known from TV / Radio and Theater, where he has been seen and heard with several shows like The Voice of Holland, Idols, X-Factor, the Edwin Eversband, and from TV Show Even tot Hier. Furthermore, there is a very good chance that you will unconsciously hear him almost daily, since as a studio musician he is responsible for a lot of Radio / TV and commercial tunes. As lead alto / soloist he was a member of The Skymasters, AB-4, The Beau Hunks, Cor Bakker and until 2007 the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw. We are now quite a few years later and Allard has already joined the narrow top of Dutch musicians and has already won two Jazz prizes in 1990, namely the prestigious Pall Mall Swing Award and the Denon Swing Award. He has also made three solo CDs: Together (1992), The Right Track (2005) and in 2008 The Return of the Elephant with The Phonebone Quintet which has been nominated for an Edison Jazz Award. Apparently effortlessly he manages to move within several styles of Jazz and Pop music, in which he makes lyrical use of all saxophones, clarinets, flute, piccolo and EWI in a lyrical manner. Since 1996 Buwalda has been a major teacher of Saxophone Jazz and Pop at the Artez Conservatory in Zwolle. He also collaborated on countless CD’s of national and international artists with his horn section The Jayhorns (incl. Sia, David Guetta, Alain Clark, Marco Borsato, etc.). Allard Buwalda plays exclusively on Selmer saxophones.