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Sam Gevers (Belgium, 1985) is composer, conductor & Music Director of 13 musicals including "Father Damien", "Jeanne d'Arc", "Zoo of life", "Rubens", "King Albert" and “Marie-Antoinette”. These mass productions were visited by more then 300000 people.
He also worked as MD on the musicals "40-45" & "Daens" (Studio 100) and "The Christmas Show" (Deep Bridge). For different recordings he conducted the Budapest Art Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, FAMES Skopje and Bratislava Symphony Orchestra.
Sam wrote many educational pieces, lots of songs for Percussive and challenging compositions for percussion solo & ensemble - including commissioned work for ONSK & WMC.
His work is published at Tapspace and in the "Sam Gevers Percussion Collection" at Metropolis/UMMP. For the solfege method "Tierelier" he composed over 150 vocal lessons.
Since 2010 Sam is full time drummer in the Royal Band of the Belgian Navy. With this band he plays worldwide with guests as Paquito D'Rivera, Johnny Logan, Ozark Henry,...
As a freelance musician he played with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, Symphonic Factory and many more. In these orchestras some famous conductors crossed his path: f.i. Takuo Yuasa (Jap), Jaap Van Zweden (Ned) and Pincchas Steinberg (Ger). In many performances at the Night of the Proms with Il Novecento, he accompanied world famous artists as Donna Summer, Ike Turner, Macy Gray. As freelance drummer/percussion player he worked on many shows as Evita, Elisabeth, Joseph, Oliver!, Fiddler on the roof, Cinderella, Chaplin, Wizard of Oz, Scrooge... Performing all these plays and concerts, he came across the whole wide world.
Currently Sam is teaching "Creative project" at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, AP University College.
He is founder of the trio “Percussive”, which was one the leading percussion groups, touring in the Belgian theatres for the last 10 years.
Sam made a serie of short percussion videos which were broadcasted many times on national television. For one of these movies he was granted with 2 awards at the Corporate Video Festival. He created artistic audio tours for companies as ExxonMobil, DP World and Danone.
Sam Gevers holds a Master of Music (Percussion & Conducting) from the Antwerp Royal Conservatory.
He was taught by Carlo Willems, Koen Wilmaers, Patrick de Smet and Dirk De Caluwe.
Sam also earned his teaching degree, had lessons at the Antwerp Jazz Studio and followed masterclasses with Randy Max (USA), Dave Weckl (USA), Arthur Lipner (USA) and others.
Sam loves a diversity of musical styles, and is being influenced by musical heroes as Dave Weckl, Walk off the earth, Snarky Puppy, Beatles, Strawinsky, Lloyd Webber, John Mayer, FUN., Bernstein, Selah Sue, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Eva Cassidy, Mike Stern,...
Between all his performing activities he is working on more new sheet music.
If you have any question, invitation or composition request, do not hesitate to contact Sam right HERE.
He also worked as MD on the musicals "40-45" & "Daens" (Studio 100) and "The Christmas Show" (Deep Bridge). For different recordings he conducted the Budapest Art Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, FAMES Skopje and Bratislava Symphony Orchestra.
Sam wrote many educational pieces, lots of songs for Percussive and challenging compositions for percussion solo & ensemble - including commissioned work for ONSK & WMC.
His work is published at Tapspace and in the "Sam Gevers Percussion Collection" at Metropolis/UMMP. For the solfege method "Tierelier" he composed over 150 vocal lessons.
Since 2010 Sam is full time drummer in the Royal Band of the Belgian Navy. With this band he plays worldwide with guests as Paquito D'Rivera, Johnny Logan, Ozark Henry,...
As a freelance musician he played with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, Symphonic Factory and many more. In these orchestras some famous conductors crossed his path: f.i. Takuo Yuasa (Jap), Jaap Van Zweden (Ned) and Pincchas Steinberg (Ger). In many performances at the Night of the Proms with Il Novecento, he accompanied world famous artists as Donna Summer, Ike Turner, Macy Gray. As freelance drummer/percussion player he worked on many shows as Evita, Elisabeth, Joseph, Oliver!, Fiddler on the roof, Cinderella, Chaplin, Wizard of Oz, Scrooge... Performing all these plays and concerts, he came across the whole wide world.
Currently Sam is teaching "Creative project" at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, AP University College.
He is founder of the trio “Percussive”, which was one the leading percussion groups, touring in the Belgian theatres for the last 10 years.
Sam made a serie of short percussion videos which were broadcasted many times on national television. For one of these movies he was granted with 2 awards at the Corporate Video Festival. He created artistic audio tours for companies as ExxonMobil, DP World and Danone.
Sam Gevers holds a Master of Music (Percussion & Conducting) from the Antwerp Royal Conservatory.
He was taught by Carlo Willems, Koen Wilmaers, Patrick de Smet and Dirk De Caluwe.
Sam also earned his teaching degree, had lessons at the Antwerp Jazz Studio and followed masterclasses with Randy Max (USA), Dave Weckl (USA), Arthur Lipner (USA) and others.
Sam loves a diversity of musical styles, and is being influenced by musical heroes as Dave Weckl, Walk off the earth, Snarky Puppy, Beatles, Strawinsky, Lloyd Webber, John Mayer, FUN., Bernstein, Selah Sue, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Eva Cassidy, Mike Stern,...
Between all his performing activities he is working on more new sheet music.
If you have any question, invitation or composition request, do not hesitate to contact Sam right HERE.