Bio

Andrius Dereviancenko is an Amsterdam-based saxophonist and composer who works across acoustic playing and live electronics. Growing up in Klaipėda, Lithuania, he started out on the birbynė, a Lithuanian folk reed instrument. Jazz recordings eventually pulled him toward the saxophone, and from there to Amsterdam, where he completed a bachelor's in jazz saxophone and a master's degree in live electronics at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. The city's free improvised music scene is where he found his footing, groove, and freedom to experiment and write his own music.

His projects prove his desire to move between genres: from Jazz to Groove, Dub and electronic music, always staying true to the boundless spirit of free improv, both on stage and in the studio. In 2022 he founded 12 Tribes of Mars: a group that combines the basic elements of the Reggae, Ska, and Dub traditions to blast them into outer space. Heavily influenced by the spirit of free improv, the music is as sexy and danceable as it is uncompromisingly gritty. Their first album, Hidden Sun, was released in 2026 on Dubophonic Records and received many favorable reviews.

Together with sound engineer and sound designer Ruben Kieftenbelt he started electro-acoustic duo Foon [/foːn/] in 2024. Using self-coded software the musicians weave the organic, live sounds of the saxophone and a modular synthesizer, into layered compositions. As in jazz, their composed pieces performed on stage serve as a framework for new improvisations. After their intimate, hyper-focused performances, audiences are left in awe with, as one listener described it, “a melting brain and firing neurons.” They released their first album in 2026, on Relativistic Records.

He also leads Cocktail Party Attack, whose album Anthem of Joy came out in 2023 on TryTone, a label run by a musicians collective of the same name. In 2025 he joined this musicians collective for jazz, improvised music and contemporary composed music. He is active as an organizer in the music scenes of Amsterdam, for instance as the initiator and programmer of multi-genre concert series Wanderlust.

Currently Andrius is working on new music for his solo project, for which he combines the saxophone with electronics and visuals, building live setups where sound and image inform each other, rather than running in parallel. With visual artist Rosa Smits he works on the project Lines of Echo.

People that he collaborated with along the way are, amongst others, Wilbert de Joode, Michael Vatcher, Onno Govaert, Jasper Stadhouders, Franky Douglas, Berima Amo, and Etuk Ubong. In 2013, his quartet won the Leiden Jazz Award. In 2016, his band Morgan Freeman took the Public Prize and Best Composition Prize at Tremplin Jazz Avignon. In 2022, Litterjug, a trash jazz group he plays in, was nominated at the Danish Music Awards Jazz for Best Experimental Album of the Year and New Jazz Name of the Year. He has played at Bimhuis, North Sea Jazz Festival, InJazz, Vilnius Mama Jazz, Palermo Jazz Festival, Avignon Jazz, and Interplanetary Night: Solo Extravaganza.