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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY :
Peter Van Huffel is a Belgian-Canadian saxophonist and composer based in Berlin, Germany since 2008. He is best known as the leader of the thrash-jazz trio GORILLA MASK, which toured extensively across Europe and Canada from 2009 to 2025 and released five critically acclaimed albums—four on Portugal’s Clean Feed Records and the debut, HOWL! (2012), on Germany’s Between the Lines. The band’s releases received international praise, with features and reviews in radio and print media worldwide.
His most recent project as a leader is the bassless quartet CALLISTO, featuring Van Huffel on baritone saxophone and live horn-effects processing, trumpeter Lina Allemano, pianist/electronics artist Antonis Anissegos, and drummer Joe Hertenstein. Their debut album, Meandering Demons, recorded at Berlin’s legendary Hansa Studios, was released by Clean Feed Records in 2024.
Other current projects include the trio HELICOPTER with bassist Roland Fidezius and drummer Simon Camatta; an electro-acoustic improvising trio with drummer Sofia Borges and pianist Rieko Okuda, whose debut album Lagrangian Points was released on 4daRecord in 2026; and a trio with bassist Meinrad Kneer and drummer Yorgos Dimitriadis, whose debut album Synomilies appeared on Evil Rabbit Records in 2024. Van Huffel is also a member of Kellen Mills’ avant-prog-jazz project TRYON and Anastasios Savvopoulos’ Resurrection City, while maintaining numerous collaborations with musicians in Berlin and internationally.
Previous projects include Van Huffel’s Berlin-based international octet (2017–2019); the chamber groups HuffLiGnoN and House of Mirrors with singer Sophie Tassignon; the collaborative trio The Scrambling EX with guitarist Andreas Willers and drummers Oliver Steidle and Devin Gray; the duo KRONIX with guitarist Alex Maksymiw; the New York trio BOOM CRANE with bassist Michael Bates and drummer Jeff Davis; and his international quartet that produced the critically acclaimed Fresh Sound Records release Like the Rusted Key (2009), featuring pianist Jesse Stacken, bassist Miles Perkin, and drummer Samuel Rohrer.
During his New York residency (2002–2008), Van Huffel led a quintet featuring Jesse Stacken, Scott DuBois, Michael Bates, and Jeff Davis. The group performed regularly at venues including the 55 Bar and Cornelia Street Café, toured Canada, and released On Common Ground (2005) and Silvester Battlefield (2007) on Fresh Sound Records.
Van Huffel’s discography also includes appearances on recordings by ANIMAL FORUM, guitarist Lily Maase, Dan Nettles’ Kenosha Kid, the Meinrad Kneer Quintet, Sophie Tassignon’s KHYAL, and many others. He has performed with artists including Richard Scott, Ignaz Schick, Lina Allemano, Simon Jermyn, Julie Sassoon, Michael Griener, Chris Potter, Clarence Penn, Scott DuBois, Tobias Delius, Frank Gratkowski, Gebhard Ullmann, Samuel Blaser, Devin Gray, Dan Nettles, Michael Attias, Michael Blake, Thomas Morgan, Tom Rainey, and Nate Wooley.
To date, Peter Van Huffel has released eighteen albums as a leader and co-leader and has appeared on numerous additional recordings as a guest artist and sideman.
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