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40-434: The Metropole Orkest was founded in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden at the urging of officials from Netherlands Public Broadcasting , which manages and subsidizes the orchestra. The name of the group was suggested by van der Linden, one of the musicians, who led the ensemble for 35 years until he stepped down in 1980. He was replaced by Rogier van Otterloo , who led the group until his sudden death in 1988. Dick Bakker then held

80-578: A Thing ", began to go viral on YouTube. In 2014, Collier signed with Quincy Jones 's management company and began working on his one-man, audio-visual live performance vehicle, designed and built at the MIT Media Lab by Ben Bloomberg. In 2016, Collier released his debut album, In My Room , which he recorded, arranged, performed and produced himself in the back room of his family home in Finchley , North London . In 2018, Collier began working on Djesse ,

120-482: A Thing ". The videos presented split-screen multitrack recordings of Collier singing each part of the arrangements' harmonies. These videos gained attention with the "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" cover receiving millions of views. His musical activity caught the attention of Quincy Jones , who flew Collier to the Montreux Jazz Festival where he was introduced to Herbie Hancock . In 2015, Collier launched

160-552: A cappella group Take 6 . Collier re-composed Samsung 's signature ringtone , "Over The Horizon", for the Samsung Galaxy S8 /S8+, and was co-producer on two songs from Becca Stevens' album Regina . He helped to score the DreamWorks ' film The Boss Baby with composer Hans Zimmer . He performed with Zimmer and Pharrell Williams at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival . Collier toured internationally for two and

200-478: A concert in Cologne, Germany. He wrote eight of the eleven songs and arranged, recorded and produced the album in the music room of his family home, playing every instrument himself. He recorded and mixed the album over three months. The album was mastered by Bernie Grundman and released on 1 July 2016 through independent record label Membran Entertainment Group. Collier embarked on a one-man world tour which included

240-628: A former colleague with that name. In 1945, he was asked by Dutch authorities who had arrived back from their exile in London to form an orchestra for light music. Picking musician known to him from all over the Netherlands, he thus managed to create the Metropole Orchestra . Famous names from these early years were Benny Behr , Sem Nijveen (both violinists), Kees Verschoor (clarinetist) and Manny Oets (pianist). In 1957, van der Linden conducted

280-562: A four-volume, 50-song album featuring more than two dozen artists and ensembles. The first volume, which featured the Metropole Orkest , Djesse Vol. 1 , was released in December 2018. The second, Djesse Vol. 2 , used more acoustic instrumentation and was released in July 2019. The third volume, Djesse Vol. 3 , was released in 2020. The fourth and final volume for the album, Djesse Vol. 4 ,

320-666: A half years between 1 July 2015 and 18 December 2017, while hosting masterclasses and performances with orchestras and big bands around the world, including the Metropole Orkest . On 9 July, he and Cory Henry performed with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley at the North Sea Jazz Festival . In July 2018, he was one of the guests at Quincy Jones's 85th birthday party celebrations at the Montreux Jazz Club. On 19 July, "Jacob Collier and Friends" performed as part of

360-581: A live show and toured Europe and the US. The performances featured a circle of musical instruments, with six simultaneous looping stations capable of simultaneous playback, backed by synced real-time 3D-captured video loops, projected onto a screen behind the instruments. Central to the show was a custom-built vocal "Harmonizer" instrument that enabled Collier to sing multi-voice harmonies in real-time. The show debuted at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, and Collier later opened for Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea at

400-473: A living from just their work at the orchestra, and faced problems combining the irregular work hours as a musician with part-time jobs needed to supplement their income. The orchestra objected to the situation as described, responding that it feared that the orchestra would diminish in quality or ultimately be forced to shut down completely. In the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards of 2011, Best Instrumental Arrangement went to Vince Mendoza for arranging Carlos ,

440-476: A spontaneous audience choir. On 8 December 2023, Collier performed " Last Christmas " at the Royal Christmas Concert at Westminster Abbey . Djesse Vol. 4 was released on 29 February 2024. The singles include "Little Blue", featuring Brandi Carlile ; "Wherever I Go", "Witness Me", "Mi Corazón", and a cover of Paul Simon's " Bridge Over Troubled Water ". At the 2024 Grammy Awards , Collier won

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480-674: A track from the album 54 which the Metropole had recorded with John Scofield . In 1996, the Metropole Orchestra performed the score of Antonia , a film which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. They all also featured in "All Night Long" by Jacob Collier which won an award for the "Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals" at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards . Dolf van der Linden David Gijsbert van der Linden (22 June 1915 – 30 January 1999), known as Dolf van der Linden ,

520-689: A treble singer in classical roles, such as one of the three boys in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Miles in Benjamin Britten 's The Turn of the Screw , which influenced his use and understanding of harmony. Of Britten's harmonic language, he said, "My mind was shattered outwards." He received the ABRSM Gold Medal for the highest mark in the country for his grade eight singing result in 2008. Collier attended Mill Hill County High School in north London and

560-666: Is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and educator. His music incorporates a combination of jazz and elements from other musical genres, and often features extensive use of reharmonisations and close harmony . He is known for his energetic live performances, in which he often conducts the audience to sing harmony or play percussion parts. Collier demonstrates his harmonic expertise in lectures and master classes, particularly with his detailed analyses of songs like Stevie Wonder 's " Sir Duke " and his own music. In 2013, his split-screen video covers of popular songs, such as Stevie Wonder 's " Don't You Worry 'bout

600-801: The Billboard Hot 100 in October 2021. This track is part of Coldplay's ninth album Music of the Spheres , which also features Collier on the track "Human Heart." In 2022, he collaborated with British rapper Stormzy on the album This Is What I Mean . Collier received two nominations at the 65th Grammy Awards : Best Arrangement, Instruments And Vocals for his single “Never Gonna Be Alone” and Album Of The Year for his contributions to Music of The Spheres . Additionally, he appeared in Olivia Rodrigo 's documentary film Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U as one of

640-411: The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards , Djesse Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 each won a Grammy award for "All Night Long" and "Moon River", respectively. The same year, Collier provided backing vocals for several tracks on Coldplay 's eighth studio album, Everyday Life . Djesse Vol. 3 , released on 14 August 2020, features collaborations with various artists and received several Grammy nominations in 2021. It

680-746: The BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. On 29 October 2018, Collier announced a new four-volume, 50-song musical project, entitled Djesse . He titled it as such as a clever reference to his initials: JC ( Djesse , with a silent "D", is pronounced like "JC"). Djesse Vol. 1 was released in full on 7 December, and featured the singles "With The Love in My Heart", "Ocean Wide, Canyon Deep" and "All Night Long". The volume features collaborations with various artists and includes The Metropole Orkest on every track. Collier produced, arranged, and orchestrated

720-564: The BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London, in which he performed, among others, his orchestral arrangement of his original song "In The Real Early Morning" with the Metropole Orkest , conducted by Jules Buckley . In December 2016, Collier collaborated with 150 students at MIT to produce a live concert in Kresge Auditorium , titled "Imagination Off the Charts", playing alongside orchestral arrangements of his repertoire. This residency

760-623: The Purcell School for Young Musicians in Bushey , Hertfordshire. He briefly studied jazz piano at the Royal Academy. Collier began uploading homemade, multi-instrumental content to YouTube in 2011 with a vocal arrangement of " Pure Imagination " from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , and in 2013 a multi-instrumental rendition of Stevie Wonder 's " Don't You Worry 'bout

800-418: The a cappella group Pentatonix . He arranged "White Christmas" for them; it appeared on A Pentatonix Christmas and won a Contemporary A Cappella Society award for Best Professional Arrangement by a Non-Scholastic Group. In February 2016, Collier was featured on Snarky Puppy 's album Family Dinner – Volume 2 , playing "Don't You Know." On 22 August, he took part in a Quincy Jones tribute concert at

840-442: The 2015 Montreux Jazz Festival . In July 2015, Beats by Dr. Dre asked Collier to provide music for "The Game Starts Here" England Rugby World Cup campaign commercial. Collier recorded an a cappella version of the hymn " Jerusalem " for the commercial, which was shown on national television before each England match. In late 2015, Collier began preparing his debut album In My Room after performing with WDR Big Band in

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880-494: The 2016 Montreux Jazz Festival. In anticipation of the album's release, Collier launched the "#IHarmU" campaign through Patreon . 100 patrons sent him 15-second video clips of melodies, which he harmonised with vocal parts on his multi-screen layout and uploaded to social media. Collier received more than 130 melodies and donations, including from British jazz artist Jamie Cullum , Ben Folds , Herbie Hancock , and Kevin Olusola of

920-732: The Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals award for "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning". He also performed at the Grammy Awards ceremony, playing " Both Sides Now " with Joni Mitchell , Brandi Carlile , Allison Russell , SistaStrings, Blake Mills , and Lucius . Collier came from a family of musicians and was introduced to music at an early age. With the support of his mother, he learned to play various instruments and became acquainted with musical concepts. His recording career began in

960-540: The Metropole Orkest for its film scores. From 2005 to 2013 the Metropole was under the baton of four-time Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza and performed frequently on the concert stage, at festivals and on recordings of both Dutch and international artists. In European radio broadcasting, its closest counterparts are the BBC Concert Orchestra , and in particular the now defunct BBC Radio Orchestra which had similar instrumentation. The ensembles often performed with

1000-457: The baton until 2005, when Vince Mendoza took over. He gave the orchestra a more international character. In August 2013 Jules Buckley took over the position of chief conductor from Mendoza. The Metropole Orkest is a regular feature at the North Sea Jazz festival and the annual Holland Festival along with many TV and radio programs. The Dutch film and television industry relies heavily on

1040-518: The ceremony, he conducted the Metropole Orchestra for the last time. In 1999, van der Linden died in Hilversum . On 22 June 2015, which would have been van der Linden's 100th birthday, the Metropole Orchestra played a concert of his compositions and arrangements. At this occasion, the first copy of van der Linden's biography, written by Bas Tukker, was presented to Dolf's younger brother Rob. Jacob Collier Jacob Collier (born 2 August 1994)

1080-571: The first British artist to receive a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums. Djesse Vol. 4 was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Collier was born on 2 August 1994. He grew up in North London with two younger sisters. His mother, Suzie Collier, is a violinist, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music 's Junior Academy. His maternal grandfather, Derek Collier ,

1120-658: The latter song, "Een beetje", written by the pianist of his orchestra, Dick Schallies ). In 1969 he refused to go to the Eurovision Song Contest in Spain, claiming that Francoist Spain reminded him too much of his experiences in World War II. Frans de Kok stepped in and was lucky enough to accompany what turned out to be another winning entry, "De troubadour" by Lenny Kuhr . In the 1970 contest in Amsterdam, van der Linden

1160-470: The music, in addition to singing and playing various instruments. In January 2019, Collier embarked on a world tour in support of the Djesse series. Djesse Vol. 2 was released on 19 July 2019, featuring musical collaborations with various artists as well as an a cappella arrangement of " Moon River " with over a hundred vocal contributions from family members, mentors, friends, and other collaborators. At

1200-639: The same guest conductors and soloists, using the same bespoke arrangements. The Metropole Orkest is known for its performances of world music and classic jazz works. It has worked with many prominent artists, including Ella Fitzgerald , Dizzy Gillespie , Al Jarreau , New York Voices , Tori Amos , Bono , Brian Eno , Hardwell , Elvis Costello , Within Temptation , Snarky Puppy , Marcus Miller , Todd Rundgren , Jacob Collier , Markus Stockhausen , Louis Cole , Triptykon , Cory Wong , Cory Henry , Basement Jaxx and Robbie Williams . The Dutch government

1240-466: The special guests. On 2 May 2022, Collier was the subject of Alan Yentob 's BBC One television documentary series Imagine... , in the episode Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens . On 29 September 2022, Collier released his first live album , Piano Ballads (Live From The Djesse World Tour 2022) , which includes 11 covers largely improvised by Collier on stage, many of which involve

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1280-602: The winning Dutch entry to the Eurovision Song Contest , "Net als toen", sung by Corry Brokken . In the year after, he and his orchestra accompanied the Eurovision Song Contest which was organised by Dutch TV in Hilversum. Afterwards, he was asked by, amongst others, the BBC to do some work for them. All in all, between 1957 and 1971, van der Linden conducted 13 Dutch Eurovision entries, amongst which two winners (in 1957 and 1959 -

1320-485: Was a Dutch conductor of popular music with a reputation which extended beyond the borders of the Netherlands. David Gijsbert van der Linden, the son of a salesman of musical instruments, was born in Vlaardingen , near Rotterdam . Before World War II , he played in some different bands as a pianist and tried his hand at arranging music for these bands. His colleagues started calling him "Dolf", because he reminded them of

1360-479: Was a violinist who also taught at the Royal Academy and performed with orchestras around the world. Collier has said: "We sing Bach chorales together as family—it's just so much fun." He is partly of Chinese descent through his maternal grandmother, Leila Wong. At age 10, Collier portrayed Tiny Tim in the Arthur Allan Seidelman film A Christmas Carol (2004). At the same time he was performing as

1400-410: Was asked by RTÉ to step in and conduct " All Kinds of Everything " by Dana , another winner. In the 1970s, Dolf van der Linden tried to rejuvenate and modernise his orchestra. In 1980, he retired, and his successor as chief conductor of the Metropole Orchestra was Rogier van Otterloo . In 1995 he was awarded a Golden Harp for his outstanding achievements for entertainment music in the Netherlands; at

1440-405: Was considering withdrawing funding from the orchestra but, at the last minute, in December 2012, politicians secured funding for the orchestra until 2017. Starting on 31 January 2017, an online survey was held to select a group for a joint project. Six months later, Epica was elected from 650 suggestions, winning the most of 60,000 votes. Without revealing the title of the existing Epica song that

1480-681: Was nominated for the Album of the Year , and the single "All I Need" was nominated for Best R&B Performance . "He Won't Hold You" won Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals , making Collier the first British artist to win a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums. In November 2020, Collier released the book Songs of Jacob Collier , featuring solo piano and vocal arrangements for 19 of his compositions. Collier co-wrote and provided background vocals for SZA 's single " Good Days ," released on 25 December 2020. He also contributed background vocals to Coldplay and BTS 's " My Universe ", which topped

1520-471: Was released in March 2024. In 2017, Collier was awarded Grammy Awards for his arrangements of the " Flintstones " theme and Stevie Wonder's " You and I " on his first album. In 2020, Collier won Grammy Awards for his arrangements of " All Night Long (All Night) " from Djesse Vol. 1 and " Moon River " from Djesse Vol. 2 . In 2021, he won a Grammy Award for " He Won't Hold You " from Djesse Vol. 3 ., making him

1560-554: Was the subject of a documentary film, Imagination Off The Charts , which won a regional Emmy in June 2018. In February 2017, Collier won two Grammy Awards for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for the Stevie Wonder song " You and I ", and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals for a cover of " Flintstones ". In March he made his US television debut on The Tavis Smiley Show , performing "You And I" with jazz-gospel

1600-440: Was to be recorded, a joint studio session was scheduled to take place in Hilversum on 13 December 2017. In the build-up to a Dutch parliamentary debate on the culture budgets, scheduled for 30 May 2018, the Metropole Orkest announced that by 2018 the subsidy budget cuts in the preceding years had caused a 50% reduction in the amount of work the orchestra could offer its musicians. Many of its musicians were no longer able to make

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