Pianist Cajan Witmer graduated at the Rotterdam Conservatory in 1989.
\nSince 2005 he is a teacher at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen.<\/p>\n
Cajan has been playing in numerous formations over the \u00a0last 40 years.
\nHis focus has been on jazz and latin music.
\nCajan is an excellent accompanist, both for vocalists and instrumentalists.
\nBesides being a pianist, Cajan is\u00a0 composer and arranger.
\nIn 1989 he won a prize for his composition \u201cGoudkust\u201d at the Meervaart Jazzfestival.<\/p>\n
His trio \u201cWitmer trio\u201c was founded in 1994. The trio recorded 5 CD\u2019s. Pianist Cajan Witmer Pianist Cajan Witmer graduated at the Rotterdam Conservatory in 1989. Since 2005 he is a teacher at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen. Cajan has been playing in numerous formations over the \u00a0last 40 years. His focus has been on jazz and latin music. Cajan is an excellent accompanist, both for vocalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cajan.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe CD Cuban Fantasy<\/em> won a prize for the best Latin CD recorded in 2023.
\nTwo years ago Cajan started \u201cBlue Temple\u201d, a jazz quartet featuring the talented tenorsaxophonist Yehorii Uzva.
\nTheir first album will be released this year containing only original compositions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"