ABOUT
Natalie Boeyink is an accomplished musician, educator and composer based in Bloomington, IN. She works primarily in jazz and Latin idioms as a bassist. In 2023, she joined the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as Associate Professor of Jazz, teaching courses in jazz history and pedagogy. From 2015-2023 she was based in North Carolina, serving on the jazz faculty at UNCW.
Natalie completed her doctorate in music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and she holds a MM in Jazz Performance (University of Louisville), and a BM in Jazz Studies (Indiana University). Her dissertation was titled, "An Analysis and Description of Female Jazz Instrumentalists." Natalie is an active jazz bassist, adjudicator and educator and she is the former director of the Attica Strings Project, based in Attica, Indiana.
Bajissima Latin Jazz is Natalie’s latest project. Featuring musical talent nurtured in North Carolina, Bajissma’s sound is driven by the lively and infections rhythms of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Batuquê Trio is her seasoned collaboration with drummer Andy Smith and pianist Jamaal Baptiste. Focusing on contemporary Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Caribbean jazz, the trio frequently appears at jazz festivals as performers and clinicians. The trio's first CD, Transparency, was released in January 2015. Their second album is forthcoming in 2022.
Natalie has shared the stage with Jamie Baum, Ingrid Jensen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Christine Jensen, Leni Stern, Reut Regev, Jovino Santos Neto, Joe Piscopo, David ‘Fathead’ Newman, Jon Hendricks, Jeff Coffin, David Liebman, Lorraine Feather and Michael Philip Mossman.
Natalie completed her doctorate in music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and she holds a MM in Jazz Performance (University of Louisville), and a BM in Jazz Studies (Indiana University). Her dissertation was titled, "An Analysis and Description of Female Jazz Instrumentalists." Natalie is an active jazz bassist, adjudicator and educator and she is the former director of the Attica Strings Project, based in Attica, Indiana.
Bajissima Latin Jazz is Natalie’s latest project. Featuring musical talent nurtured in North Carolina, Bajissma’s sound is driven by the lively and infections rhythms of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Batuquê Trio is her seasoned collaboration with drummer Andy Smith and pianist Jamaal Baptiste. Focusing on contemporary Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Caribbean jazz, the trio frequently appears at jazz festivals as performers and clinicians. The trio's first CD, Transparency, was released in January 2015. Their second album is forthcoming in 2022.
Natalie has shared the stage with Jamie Baum, Ingrid Jensen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Christine Jensen, Leni Stern, Reut Regev, Jovino Santos Neto, Joe Piscopo, David ‘Fathead’ Newman, Jon Hendricks, Jeff Coffin, David Liebman, Lorraine Feather and Michael Philip Mossman.