Biography
Omer Govreen (b. 1994) is a double bassist. He studied at the Jazz Institute of the Rimon School of Music, a prestigious joint program with Berklee College of Music, on a scholarship from the Bracha Foundation. In 2016, Govreen moved to Amsterdam to begin his bachelor's degree in jazz at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In 2019, his band, the Aviv Noam Quartet, won the Motivation Prize at an international jazz competition. In recent years, Govreen has co-led two jazz bands: Garden Crack (with Nino Baleyte and Adrian Moncade) and Govreen/Sever (with Aleksander Sever, Floris Kappeyne and Wouter Kühne). A sought-after bassist on the jazz scene, he has performed as a sideman with Billy Cobham, Tineke Postma, Benjamin Herman, Anat Fort, Jimmy Halperin and Michael Moore, among others.