Complex sentence: During the 1994 North Sea Jazz Festival the Bird Award, the highest award in the Dutch Jazz World was bestowed upon Pierre Courbois, since 2000 he is Night in the Order of Oranje Nassau and in 2008 he received the VPRO/Boy Edgar Award.
Split into simpler sentences: During the 1994 North Sea Jazz Festival the Bird Award, the highest award in the Dutch Jazz World, was bestowed upon Pierre Courbois. Since 2000 he is Night in the Order of Oranje Nassau and in 2008 he received the VPRO/Boy Edgar Award.