He has travelled the world extensively (so far 108 countries), searching for collaborations with musicians from cultures quite different to his own, and the musical results have been eye-opening, building musical bridges between cultures not normally within reach of each other.

He has signed a contract with Challenge Records International for a series of 10 CDs named "Songs Inspired By Wandering The Globe", taken from collaborations with musicians all over the world. The first trio CD The Journey,recorded with his new trio featuring Dutch bassist Jeroen Vierdag and Belgian drummer Bruno Castellucci was released worldwide in the spring of 2012,and the second album Impressions of Brazil is recently launched with vocalist / guitarist Ceumar from Brazil.

Mike's father was opera singer Leonard del Ferro (1921-1992), who sang and recorded with Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein, and from the very start his childhood was thus filled with music of the highest order.A native of Amsterdam, he started his career studying classical piano at the age of nine and after falling in love with jazz he pursued his studies on Jazz and received a Masters of Music in Contemporary Music at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

His reputation as a soloist, accompanist, composer and arranger has led to worldwide performances, recordings and tours with musicians such as Toots Thielemans, Jack De Johnette, Randy Brecker,Oscar Castro Neves, Deborah Brown, Erik Truffaz, Jorge Rossy, Scott Hamilton,Richard Galliano, Thijs van Leer (Focus), Harold Land, Jan Akkerman, Norma Winstone, Benny Bailey, Candy Dulfer, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Badi Assad amongst so many others. To date he has recorded 15 albums under his own name and he has appeared on countless albums in many different genres from Dixieland to Salsa.



Ceumar

Ceumar, in Portugese Ceu means Sky and Mar means Sea.This is what perfectly describes this phenomenal singer/guitarist and composer from Brazil.

She was born in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais and at a very young age she moved to Sao Paulo where she was discovered by producer Zeca Baleiro, who produced her first album “Dindinha”. This Album gave her the reputation being “the new Pearl of the populair Brazilian music”.

The collaboration with Mike del Ferro started in Sao Paulo in 2005 and since then the Mike del Ferro trio& Ceumar have been touring all over Brazil and Europe.

Currently Ceumar lives in the Netherlands and she travels back and forth between Amsterdam and Brazil.

A brand new CD of Mike del Ferro trio & Ceumar has been recently released by Challenge Records International.