Armin Van Buuren Tickets

From Leiden to the decks

Armin van Buuren was born in Leiden, in the Netherlands, on 25 December 1976, into a musical family. He spent the money from his paper round on records and credits the electronic pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre as a major influence, alongside the Dutch producer Ben Liebrand, who later mentored him in mixing and production. As a back-up plan he studied law, and he finished a Master's degree even as remixes and club nights filled his weekends.

A State of Trance and Armada

In June 2001 he aired the first episode of A State of Trance. The weekly show grew into a global brand with its own label and event series, built around features such as Tune of the Week, Progressive Pick, Future Favorite and the fan-presented Service For Dreamers. It won the International Dance Music Award for Best Mix Radio Show ten times between 2007 and 2020, and its mix albums have charted the sound of trance and progressive twice a year since 2004.

In 2003 he co-founded the label Armada Music with Maykel Piron and David Lewis, the three names giving the company its "Ar-Ma-Da" title. Run from offices in Amsterdam, London and Laren, it has its own club, radio studio and production studios.

Records and the stage

His artist albums run from 76 (2003) and Shivers (2005) through Imagine (2008), Mirage (2010), Intense (2013) and Embrace (2015), and tracks such as "Communication" and "Blue Fear" remain fan favourites. "This Is What It Feels Like" with Trevor Guthrie, from Intense, was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards.

On stage the milestones are just as clear. In July 2010 he played to 200,000 people on the Museumplein in Amsterdam as the Dutch national team were honoured, and in 2013 he performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the newly crowned King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. The same year he became the first solo dance artist to play Madison Square Garden. In May 2017 he marked twenty years as an artist with two sold-out shows at the Amsterdam ArenA.

Beyond the dance floor

The A State of Trance event in Utrecht has drawn tens of thousands of fans, and the brand has staged nights in Sydney, Mumbai, Miami and Mexico City as well as stage takeovers at Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival and EDC Las Vegas. He has also shown a quieter side: Piano is a 15-track album of his own piano pieces, each recorded in one take in Dolby Atmos, with strings at ConcertLab in Utrecht. He shaped its 14 original compositions and one interpolation with his piano teacher, Geronimo Snijtsheuvel, and called it a different side of himself rather than a step away from dance music.

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Tickets currently start from £28.50. The average starting price across listed events is £29.