Influenced by his musical family Ewout Dercksen picked up a guitar being 8 years old. At the age of 14 he played guitar, bass and saxophone in a school band. Now he works as a musician, saxophone teacher and conductor of several big bands and smaller ensembles. Music has been a big part of his life, especially writing music. He is the leader of the Hardrubber Saxophone quartet, for which he writes most of the material.

Since 2002 he writes music for other artists and companies: Bananafish, Free&Easy and Nightbirds among others. Recently he released his WAYout-Ewout album containing a selection of music he wrote during his travels in Canada and Spain in a ten-month period. The thing he loves about writing music: ‘ The beginning of a song is just like working but if you have things running a song practically writes itself and that is big fun. Join the fun, and experience Ewout Dercksen’s pop and jazz influenced music. No WAY-out