DUO GAITAR

FEN CONCERT – DUO GAITAR
Rutger Mathys + Marijn van der Linden

2026 May 21th, 8 pm
Wolfgang Neuss Salon, ufafabrik Berlin

Duo Gaitar consists of Rutger Mathys from Belgium and Marijn van der Linden from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Duo Gaitar combines their shared passion for chansons, jazz, and Brazilian music. This takes the two young musicians on an exciting journey that leads their audience through landscapes of colorful sounds, cheerful melodies, and deafening silence.

Rutger Mathys studied chromatic harmonica at the Rotterdam Conservatory, where he played jazz, tango, and Latin American music.

Marijn van der Linden completed his studies as a jazz guitarist in 2005. He shares Rutger’s love of Brazilian music. This led him to play the cavaquinho and the acoustic seven-string guitar. A seven-string guitar has all the warm characteristics of a classical guitar, but thanks to the extra string, it also has a lot of power and groove, as required by Brazilian music.

In the duo Gaitar, they experiment with Latin and tango music, but also incorporate Rutger’s musical roots, which lie in the world of jazz, chanson, and cabaret. The harmonica is a door to fresh, unexplored sounds within these genres.