Mike Bindraban LL.M. (1980) is MD, Creative Director and co-founder of renown international music & arts agency Good Music Company (GMC), project supervisor and strategic advisor at the City of Rotterdam for the Program on Colonial & Slavery History and for the parliaments of The Netherlands, Curacao, Saint Martin and Aruba. He is also member of the Supervisory Board of Rotterdam Festivals, Artistic Director of Mondriaan Jazz Festival (The Hague, NL), Advisor at the Dutch Performing Arts Fund and was invited as special program curator for the 2023 edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival, where he curated the Sounds of Diversity program and created The Diaspora Suite. Mike was also former Head of Program for Festival Jazz International Rotterdam (Rotterdam, NL) and Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Mike finished two Masters in Law in 2004 (Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law) after which he worked as an attorney on Saint Maarten (Caribbean), where he grew up as a child from parents from Surinamese/Indian descendants. In 2011 he founded Good Music Company together with his business partner and long-time friend Jurjen Mooiweer and shifted his career towards building his international company and his passion for (jazz) music. Based in Rotterdam (NL), the company represents, manages, books an exclusive roster of internationally acclaimed and award winning artists in (jazz) music in all its progressive and contemporary crossovers. The artist clients they exclusively represent include highly acclaimed, multi-award winning artists like Snarky Puppy, Dawn Richard, The Bad Plus, Makaya McCraven, Nate Smith, Avishai Cohen (t), Brandee Younger, Ben Wendel, Shai Maestro, Mark Guiliana, Erik Truffaz, Matt Johnson (Jamiroquai) & many more. GMC has also worked with a.o., Cory Henry, GoGo Penguin, Cory Wong, Ledisi, Pharoah Sanders, Hermeto Pascoal, Bobby McFerrin, India.Arie & more. Mike works closely together with acclaimed orchestras like the Metropole Orkest, London Contemporary Orchestra, Tokyo Phil, Stockholm Phil & more.
