Jyoti Verhoeff

Jyoti Verhoeff is a singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. At the age of four, she discovered the expressionistic power of the grand piano, while visiting the house of composer Simeon ten Holt, a friend of the family. She started playing by herself at the age of eight when her parents bought her a piano.

Having been born with disabled eye vision, she had to find ways beyond the usual ways of studying music to express her rich inner world through the piano and with her voice. Because of her dedication and unique talent for music she was able to develop a virtuoso piano technique and an authentic, organic and intuitive style of composing.

Her reduced eye vision made her highly sensitive and she has a very accurate and detailed hearing. Jyoti: "Music became a journey to become fully present in every frequency of a note, a growing awareness of an intense and deep way to communicate beyond our common belief structures."

Jyoti was a finalist at Mooie Noten, as well as a finalist at the singer-songwriter competition De Grote Prijs van Nederland 2013.

Her debut double album Riven was released in June of 2014. Many accomplishments surrounded the release of this album, including a tour with folk icons Faun, selling out the Paradiso Amsterdam Main Hall, and an audience with astronaut André Kuipers who received the first copy of Riven - Full Moon, Dark Moon.

Her music was also featured in the eaxtraordinary award winning film De Nieuwe Wildernis/In Dialoog met de Natuur.

Whether she plays solo, as a duo or with a full orchestra and choir, the intense, captivating songs take the listener on an enchanting journey, after which they are left behind at the shores of the land of the living.