Tineke Postma (born August 31, 1978) is a Dutch jazz saxophonist.

Career

At the age of eleven, Postma began playing the saxophone. She studied at the

Amsterdam Conservatory The Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) is a Dutch conservatoire of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the city's vocational university of arts. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...

between 1996 and 2003 and obtained a master's degree in music. Her teachers included

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, and Chris Potter. In 2005, she began teaching at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Postma worked with

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on the album '' The Mosaic Project'' in 2011. She has performed with Greg Osby,

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, Ivan Paduart,

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, and the

Metropole Orchestra The Metropole Orkest (Metropole Orchestra) is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world. A hybrid orchestra, it is a combination of jazz, big band and symphony orchestra. Com ...

Discography

* ''For the Rhythm'' (Munich, 2005) * ''A Journey That Matters'' (Foreign Media, 2007) * ''The Traveller'' (Etcetera, 2009) * ''The Dawn of Light'' (Challenge, 2011) * ''Le Peuple Des Silencieux'' (W.E.R.F., 2014) * ''Sonic Halo'' (Challenge, 2014) * ''We Will Really Meet Again'' with Nathalie Loriers, Nicolas Thys (W.E.R.F., 2016) * ''Freya'' (Edition, 2020)

References

External links

Official site
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