Geert Hendrickx is a guitarist, composer and improviser from Ghent. At the age of 11 he came into contact with the guitar as an autodidact in a rock environment. Later on he immersed himself in jazz at the Lemmens Institute and the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp under the guidance of, among others, Frederik Leroux, Kurt van Herck, Ben Sluijs, Bert Joris, Peter Hertmans, Nic Thys, Frank Vaganée and Dre Pallemaerts.

With GIZMO (2015), first in collaboration with American saxophonist Chris Cheek, later with Ben Sluijs, he put himself on the Belgian Jazz map. Arranging in 2018 for the Antwerp Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bert Joris with Joshua Redman as guest soloist and founding Yskan, a quartet with Sam Comerford (Thunderblender), Anneleen Boehme (LABtrio) and Simon Raman (Steiger), wearere logical next steps.

In his solo project, Geert researches all kinds of different sounds on electric, acoustic and baritone guitar. With a wide color palette that ranges from ear-satisfying tones to scraping noise, he creates cinematic soundscapes that wants to stimulate your imagination.