Drums

Ap Verhoeven

Ap Verhoeven is a Dutch drummer associated with Rotterdam’s adventurous contemporary jazz and improvised music scene. He was part of the original formation of pianist and composer Filippo Deorsola’s trio Anaphora, alongside double bassist Jonathan Ho Chin Kiat. The trio’s music deliberately moves beyond conventional jazz structures, combining composition, free improvisation, shifting rhythmic ideas and a genre-fluid approach. Verhoeven appears on Anaphora’s 2022 debut album Lexicon I, released on the Italian Auand label. Within the trio, his drumming contributes to an interactive approach in which rhythm, form and improvisation are constantly reshaped, giving the music its exploratory and unpredictable character.

Netherlands