Education
Roelofs studied trombone and violin at the conservatorium in Amsterdam.
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Annemarie Roelofs
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Career
In December 1977 she began playing with English avant-rock group Henry Cow and appeared on their last album Western Culture (1979). She also performed with Guus Janssen and Maggie Nicols, and began working in German theatre in 1979. She also has a band of her own, "The Waste Watchers" with Johannes Krämer and Dirk Marwedel, which released Music From the Land of Milk & Honey in 1997.
Roelofs has worked in the Feminist Improvising Group and the United Women"s Orchestra.
She has also worked in projects with Lindsay Cooper, Heiner Goebbels, Alfred Harth.
Membership
She was a member of several musical groups, including Henry Cow and the Feminist Improvising Group, and has performed in the Netherlands and England. Roelofs is a member of the cabaret-duo "Niemann and Roelofs" with Cornelia Niemann, the duo Plenar/Roelofs with pianist Elvira Plenar, and the "Triple A" trombone trio with Annie Whitehead and Abbie Conant.
