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17/02/2012

February, busy but more or less relaxed

I am priveleged!

I get to play so many different concerts in this time with so many great people. And lots of cartes blanches. I can pick my own repertoire, the form of the concert. And I am loving it.

In the mean time I am taking pictures with my lomography cameras.

What more could I want?


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Ties Mellema

+2012 (5)
+April (2)
HCB
St. Muziekkamer Assen raadt 'Shadows' aan
+February (2)
February, busy but more or less relaxed
More photos on lomography.com
+January (1)
Wat een weekend, blog voor de KAM
+2011 (38)
+December (1)
Blog voor KAM
+November (4)
Chamber tips: "The Sponge"
Watch my photos on Lomography.com
Review Vandoren BL3
Amstel Quartet arrived in Platteville, WI
+October (4)
Making a living
Great learning session with Erik Bosgraaf
My first developed roll of Lomography
My view on a masters study
+September (4)
Recording week
Ian Wilson - Dog and Gun
Maarten Ornstein's Leap Frog
Ties Mellema on Uitcast, interview and fragments
+August (1)
Great stuff coming up!
+July (3)
Back home
North Sea Jazz Festival 2011
Uitgast Festival
+June (5)
Cuts
De feiten, leer ze kennen
De feiten, leer ze kennen....
Ties Mellema on Virus
Amateur musici gezocht voor spannend locatieproject Festival Uitgast
+May (5)
Joshua Redman @ Bimhuis
Saxophone Concertos; Repertoire Ties Mellema, with orchestra
Programmes 2012-2013 now online (English)
Long line
Programma's '12-'13
+April (2)
Portugal masterclasses
Off to Portugal
+March (4)
Ties Mellema and Pascal Meyer play an improvisation
Ties Mellema and Pascal Meyer play Bozza's Aria
Ties Mellema and Pascal Meyer play van Onna's Caïro Awakens
Grunberg helpt
+January (5)
Saúl
Beautiful video
To feel or not to feel
Richard Dawkins
Splendor openingsconcert
+2010 (56)
+December (11)
Ties Mellema in Muziekwijzer, every day at 13:15 starting Monday 20-12, ending Monday 27-12
Otto Ketting - Medusa
Ketting/Berio, Netherlands Music Prize Award Ceremony
BNN Today 1-12-2010
Vroeger
Ravel's Pavane, with Pascal Meyer Piano
Webern - Quartet
An inspriring evening with Willem Jeths
A free afternoon
This is fantastic! Watch it, really...!
Saturday night
+November (21)
In Dalian, last day in China
Last day, now in Dalian
Wordt Splendor lid!
Lucas van Woerkum's Documentary about Ties (Dutch)
Berio's Sequenza VIIb
David Dramm - In the Beginning, on VPRO's Vrije Geluiden
Bach's Allemande BWV 1013 on Vrije Geluiden TV
In Bejing
In Macau, on tour with the Amstel Quartet
Blog 13-11 (posted later)
Blog 13-11 (posted later)
Revised CV Ties Mellema (Dutch)
Revised CV Ties Mellema (Dutch)
Blog 12-11-10 (post date is later)
Mijn bedankjes tijdens de uitreiking van de NMP 2010
Een blog van Masjinist over de uitreiking van de NMP
De speech van staatssecretaris Zijlstra
Preparing for the Netherlands Muziek Prize Award concert
One week to go
A week's work
Back from US tour
+October (4)
Waiting @ LAX to fly to Alaska
On tour with the Amstel Quartet, 2
On tour with the Amstel Quartet
On tour with the Amstel Quartet
+July (2)
Een email aan de directrice a
Een email aan de directrice a.i. van het Fontys Conservatorium.
+June (5)
Etnische Registratie?!?!?!
Etnische Registratie?
Waarom droeg Hans Abbing juist bij aan de door hemzelf veronderstelde ...
February 2010 in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the world premier of Ian Wilson's 'Sarée in Kassel', written by request of Ties Mellema for Mellema and the Insomnio Ensemble.
May 2010: Ties Mellema plays Bach Flute Partita in the Azijnfabriek, Den Bosch
+May (3)
Een lekenvisie van een muzikant op de verkiezingscampagne 2010 Voor mi...
Uit Keuzes in kaart 2011-2015 – Effecten van negen verkiezingspr...
Ian Wilson Eén van de meest poëtische stukken die ik ooit ...
+April (4)
Mijn alarmmail aan de directie van het Fontys Conservatorium: Beste al...
Op het conservatorium ben ik doodgegooid met de boodschap dat we zakel...
De tournee is bijna voorbij
Eén week na mijn Nederlandse Muziekprijs examen Vorige week woe...
+March (4)
A short text about teaching saxophone at the Fontys Conservatory
http://www
http://www
De toekomst van de klassieke muziek Ik speel op de Nederlandse en buit...
+February (2)
Pat Metheny on Kenny G Question:Pat, could you tell us your opinion ab...
Ties Mellema substitutes for legendary baritone saxophone payer Willem van Merwijk in the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet.
+2009 (51)
+December (5)
Gelukkig maar, en daarna zien we wel weer
This is just too cool: Handel´s Messiah in manuscript online: ht...
We had great fun, and no rehearsals in Felix Merites
Waiting for the vegetables to get ready, another blog entry
We zullen doorgaan Met de stootkracht Van de milde kracht Om door te g...
+November (2)
In the hotel in Luxembourgh after my first day of masterclasses
It's there, my new CD, finaly
+October (4)
In North Carolina, New Bern with the Amstel Quartet
Allemachtig zeg: Saxofonist Rutger Molenkamp stopt bij Zijlstra De ban...
On tour with the Amstel Quartet
Almost off to another Amstel Quartet tour
+September (2)
The new Living Colour album is not so good
I had quite a quiet time, didn't even take the time to blog
+August (2)
I am not exagarating when I say Uitgast was great
On tour with the Amstel Quartet
+July (2)
Amstel Quartet tour coming up
Holidays
+June (2)
Editing the final version of my new CD 'On the Other Hand'
A free day after a full, full day in Tilburg with auditions (some good...
+May (2)
With all this twittering I write less on my blog
Doing some work
+April (6)
http://www
Martin Bril died
Why do men not get birth leave (zwangerschapsverlof?)?
Today great concert with Amstel Quartet and Duo Vertigo in Nijmegen
Ties Mellema writes an article for NRC Next
Wow, I'm tired
+March (10)
Check it out
In LA, California, watching Mythbusters on our free night
http://www
The Amstel tour flow has kicked in
http://www
http://www
We arrived in the US, North Carolina, 2morrow an early day with some o...
Listening to the radio tonight I heard Jeroen Weijerink speak about th...
Stageverslag Ties Mellema Fontys Conservatorium Tilburg
Another round of NFPK
+February (7)
A more or less free day
Het zit erop
Radio Kootwijk, day one: De eerste dag zit er op
Off to Tilburg, new music with Amstel Quartet, Museum de Pont
Oh yeah: http://www
Wow, still dead tired
http://www
+January (7)
Busy time has started
Home late, sleep
Watching 'Tales of the Unexpected' on youtube
Back from a tour with my quartet
Holiday's over
http://extra
Happy new year, from me and my new MacBook Pro
+2008 (77)
+December (9)
macbook/macbook pro? firewire/no firewire? zo many choices, so little ...
Oh, and: http://www
So I hung up curtains in the living room so we could sleep there and w...
Wow, what a weekend, two concerts with new repertoire
Almost off to some concerts in Den Bosch, our own liittle festival wit...
http://www
'On the Other Hand', 23 August 2008, NEW VIDEOS ADDED 1 DEC 08. Grachtenfestival, Amsterdam Conservatory. David Dramm - Hangman (Premier) and Rossini's Ave Maria su Due Note.
Ties Mellema/Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra play JacobTV's Tallahatchie Concerto.
Not even teaching today
+November (13)
Still sick, even had to cancel a date with good friends in Emmen
The flue
19 December 2008: De Nacht at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg
An old fashioned Sunday
Gershwin's American in Paris is a great piece, a fantastic piece
We might have a name?
Just came back from a stroll through town with my good friend Dick and...
Programme notes for Milhaud's 'La Creation du Monde' by Ties Mellema (Dutch only)
Chills people: http://de
Busy busy busy, but relaxed
No name yet
Done
The day before the recording of my new CD 'On the Other Hand', trying ...
+October (11)
It's a boy
http://nl
Joshua Redman yesterday in the BIMHuis, great stuff
Ten free downloads by the Concertgebouw Orchestra LIVE: http://kco
Another 4tet rehearsal today
Finally: I have found a Mark VI baritone sax
In Dutch only: http://www
A familiy meber pointed out to me recently that Fritzl wás for ...
I don't understand legal matters often
The Dutch Netherlands Bank will give me my money back
Friday the 13th is a long week, if not months in October 2008
+September (2)
So
The days after the 'On the Other Hand' concerts
+August (4)
Oh yeah
Well, back from the dead
In New Jersey now after spending some days in NY
Great weblog entry on the first Pieter vd Doesfestival June '08 by Cou...
+July (3)
http://www
About to go off on holidays to Terschelling
A good day today
+June (10)
Today all day exams at the Fontys Conservatory
http://www
2nd Try-Out 'On the Other Hand' Concert in the Thomaskerk here UPDATED 18 JUNE 2008
About to go off to the Stedelijk Museum with a friend of mine
Emio Greco - Pieter C
3 Smart Things About Music 05
Today was a good day
In spite of the fact that my quartet is playing with a substitue, we s...
WOW
I am learning to let go
+May (11)
Dear Council for Culture
i finished my updates to the site with help of my webmaster, Peter Gro...
Video registration of the first try-out of 'On the Other Hand', May 19, 2008. Keep checking back, videos will be uploaded periodically!
Check out my Monday night concert on this site, click on the about tie...
Yesterday I was a host in the radio show 'Opium' on behalf of the Amst...
Hand therapy this morning
I ordered Piano Technique by Walter Giesking to learn about mental pra...
Listening to Toots Thielemans and Kenny Werner now
Things are still ok
What a lovely day
Not much news
+April (4)
A friend of mine pointed me this out: http://forum
"Being patient when it seems to be im-pos-si-ble, that is patienc...
Joan de Ruijter of Schapenwolk made a short film with an interview with Ties Mellema talking about his injury.
Comforting music : http://www
+March (1)
it's been a while since my last post
+February (5)
(Dutch only) Goeie: http://startpagina
More Cole Porter Songs with Thomas Hampson
“Everyone knows what attention is
The secret: http://www
Who is this? It's
+January (4)
Thomas Hampson, Ties Mellema, Liza Ferschtman, Wilmar de Visser, Wolfram Rieger play Cole Porter songs at the Prinsengrachtconcert
Last day in Caracas and unfortunately I got sick yesterday, a flu
Na het lezen van 'Haydn', een biografie van Pierre Barbaud,vielen mij ...
Ever since my puberty I have been fascinated by the music of Haydn
+2007 (130)
+December (14)
Scientist and author Lewis Thomas once suggested how the people of Ear...
Great stuff http://www
Very funny parody of our minister president in HP De Tijd of this week...
Someone once asked Jean Cocteau, "Suppose your house were on fire...
http://www
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hos...
What a day, thank you Holland public transportation (not
After some days of lots of stuff to do, especially conservatorywise I ...
ReligiousShit Taoist - Shit happens
Oh and, check it out: lastfm
Yesterday was the first night of our new concert series in the Ysbreke...
Two nights of average 10 hours of sleep and I feel more rested
December: Sinterklaas, Christman and of course my recital in the Conce...
+November (7)
Great site: http://musicovery
A good quote I found and something I am working on: Aristotle consider...
Bert vd Brink's podcast is great: http://www
Playing The Old Castle with Residentie Orchestra this week
In Luxembourg right now
All up and running again
Life has started again
+October (11)
Saw a movie about Edith Piaf, here's the real one: http://www
Exploring the internet in bed
Well, back from tour, but I got sick
Yesterday we had a great concert in NY state
With Amstel Quartet in Buffalo now
In Connecticut now, we just arrived
In Hollywood/LA now
In Lancaster California
About to go off to Los Angeles and New York
Sometimes I underestimate myself
Saxophone, blessing or curse?
+September (9)
Yesterday we worked with Henk Schut, theatre director
Yesterday William was buried
Last week William Raaijman died of heart failure caused by an epilecti...
Sometimes you have to look for magic, or even better, you accidentily ...
Check this out
Yesterday I was in the Media building in Hilversum where Wijnand and I...
Not much going on
A quote from an interview with Marcel Mule in 1994: "The [Marcel ...
Not much news, well actually, I am a bit tired and don't really feel l...
+August (9)
My good friend Niels Bijl just opened his website: www
Yesterday Wijnand and me played two concerts on one day: de Amsterdam ...
Yesterday and today rehearsals with Wijnand for the Uitmarkt
Me, Liza, Wilmar and Wolfram with Hampson, rehearsing the morning befo...
Yesterday I played with Wilmar and Liza together with Thomas Hampson i...
Long time no write
Back from NY with the quartet
Routine has started this week
Ties Mellema's set-up
+July (4)
Back from Chili
In Chili now
A short note from Galicia in Spain
Glenn Gould and Berg opus 1, on the same CD as his arrangement of La V...
+June (12)
Top 5 best pieces for saxophone, in no particular order: -Edison Denis...
I have been practicing on my new horn, the Reference, I bought it, I d...
Yesterday me and Wijnand played our own 'Concert in the Park', Vondelp...
Another session with Anner Bijlsma today
The holidays are coming
My top 5 deserted island list: (in no particular order) -Heavy Metal B...
The Hague was looking for a new festival after the North Sea Jazz left...
Yesterday during the concert in Luxemburg we played Sweelinck again
Monday today
This past week I had to turn down some applicants for the conservatori...
First week of Dogtroep performances
Blog time
+May (14)
Almost off to Dogtroep general rehearsal
Two interesting articles in NRC next today
http://www
Great day today
Lesson with Anner Bijlsma today again
Two more Bolero's today
I had my first practice session after the Bylsma lesson
Busy times for me now
Wijnand Van Klaveren's site is online: www
Just ordered zwei akte by Kagel for harp sax and a stripper (which sta...
I'll return the references to Bakker
I have two reference altos in my house right now
Today we had the first Dogtroep rehearsal with the quartet on locaiton...
Yesterday was Koninginnedag (Queens day) in the Netherlands; The queen...
+April (8)
Yesterday Wijnand and I played intermezzo's during the award ceremony ...
Friday afternoon
Back from US
Last evening before Carnegie
Last days in NY
While listening to Brahms' first pianoconcerto I am packing my suitcas...
The last pieces of lead weigh the most we say in Dutch
We just came back from our Latvia tour in Riga and outside
+March (8)
Check this out and be amazed: http://www
Back from our tour with Merlijn Twaalfhoven
In Qatar now, the residency of the Dutch ambassador
An unexpected quasi free day today
This weekend performances at our house in the Pieter vd Doesstraat 98-...
Preparing for the Arabic Emirates tour with Merlijn Twaalfhoven
Wednesday night
Today Amstel Quartet played in the Noorderkerk in Amsterdam
+February (14)
Yesterday was my birthday and Ailed invited some friends without me kn...
Browsing though Richard Dawkins' website (http://richarddawkins
Right, with the right material (well, other material) I can finallly s...
One blog entry just before I am going to yoga
What a healthy Sunday morning: running in the park with Beethoven 6 (B...
Today at Matthew's in Edam I tried all of their C* mouthpieces and too...
Right ,the AL3 mouthpiece definately does not work
Yesterday we played at Gert-Jan's party with the quartet in Overtoom 3...
Yesterday night I studied for the first time trying to use Werner's me...
Kenny Werner's book is a revelation for me
Writing this message at the Artez Conservatory
Ties Mellema and his music
Sometimes there are more prozaic things to do
Many things to think about
+January (20)
Tuesday evening
Now off to Arnhem to teach and then I have a lesson from Brian Pollard...
Tired
Good rehearsal with Wijnand today
Back home
My parents got a dog: 'Kanjer'
22:00 Back from Tilburg
Today I taught in Arnhem
Keep an eye open for the Amstel Quartet CD with works by Faure, Glazou...
Dinner at Evert's was great
Today I met with Bram van Sambeek (bassoonist)
Evening now
I just realised today that I wrote an article about my influences just...
Today we had exams in Tilburg
Michael Brecker passed away last Saturday
We premiered out new programme Ghosts of the Amstel this weekend in De...
Today another session with my personal coach
Trying to find a book on Glazunov to get more inspiration about this c...
Normal life started again
HAPPY NEW YEAR
+2006 (24)
+December (7)
We did it: we played Glazounow I and II by heart
Ties Mellema and Wijnand Van Klaveren play Milhaud's Scaramouche
Christmas today, well in Holland at least, second Christmas day now
Yet another entry today
Yet another blog entry on this boxing day, well still almost, it's 23:...
Ties Mellema plays Jacob Ter Veldhuis' Garden of Love
Nobody can see my website yet, but my blog has been integrated in my n...
+November (2)
Back from Lithuania with the quartet
We recorded Faure's Pelleas et Melisande in Haarlem in Studio Gras...
+October (2)
Yesterday we did a concert at the Royal Concertgebouw and it was good
My last post was September 14th
+September (1)
First full day off (well, one lesson of one hour at 1800) since a loon...
+August (1)
Yesterday Wijnand and I had a masterclass with clarnettist Charles Nei...
+July (2)
In Denver right now with Evert and Dick
I came back from Russia with the quartet last week
+June (4)
Friday night
Friday 1030, just came back from running and took a shower
Right, wednesday today
One month almost since my last entry
+May (1)
In NY, we just came back from Mexico to visit Ailed's family in Pu...
+April (1)
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 so it's official now
+March (1)
Thursday, March 23, 2006 Thursdaymorning today, my sister's birthday w...
+February (1)
Monday, February 13, 2006 Blog: In the train to Arnhem, on my way to m...
+January (1)
Saturday, January 21, 2006 I can't believe it
+2005 (10)
+November (1)
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Tuesdaymorning, working on the computer, pc
+October (1)
Saturday, October 29, 2005 Yesterday concert in Vaals with the quartet...
+September (1)
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Again on the phone with Apple Care
+August (1)
Monday, August 29, 2005 Day after Uitmarkt and I am dead tired, we're ...
+July (6)
back from the tour to Los Llanos (the Venezuelan planes) and the Andes
Today in Merida and tomorrow of to a 4 day tour to los Llanos
Tonight we are off to Meridad for a 4 day tour through the Venezuela w...
Second day in Caracas
Yesterday I went to a concert in the Teresa Carrenho in Caracas
The pain in my shoulder has almost disppeared
+2004 (1)
+April (1)
The Classical Saxophone Tone
+2001 (1)
+July (1)
Didactic paper 2001 by Ties Mellema