Willem Breuker (b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 4, 1944) is a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist. In 1967, with percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool (ICP), with whom he regularly performed until 1973. He was a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra and the Gunter Hampel Group. Since 1974 he has led the 10-piece Willem Breuker Kollektief, which performs jazz in a theatrical and often unconventional manner, drawing elements from theater and vaudeville. With the group, he has toured Western Europe, Russia, Australia, India, China, and Japan, the United States, and Canada. He is also known as an authority on the music of Kurt Weill. In 1997 he produced, with Carrie de Swaan, a 48-hour, 12-part radio documentary on the life of Weill entitled Componist Kurt Weill. In 1974 he founded the record label BVHaast.

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