The Interfak Big Band 2025 annual concert features Dirk Van der Linden as guest solist. Dirk is known in the Jazz scene for his performance skills on guitar, Hammond organ and piano, but also as composer, producer, and music teacher. With the Interfak Big Band Dirk will focus on his beloved Hammond organ.

The Interfak Big Band grew out of an occasional ensemble that accompagnied the revue show of the engineering students in 1984. Since 1986, the Interfak Big Band recrutes musicians from all faculties of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Hence the name Interfac(ultary) Big Band.

The Interfak Big Band plays a varied repertoire that ranges from classical big band music (Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Glenn Miller ...) over Jazz Standards (Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver ...) up to contemporary music (Bert Joris, Randy Brecker, Henry Mancini, Jaco Pastorius, Tower of Power, Josef Zawinul, Bob Mintzer, Pat Metheny, ...) The IBB also plays compositions by its own members, e.g. Bob Grietens, Karel Goddaer, Nele Ghijs, ...