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20/02/2012

News letter February 2012 now online "Great stuff coming up!"


19/02/2012
Ties is looking for a large and good sounding living room with lots of wood to record his new CD 'Princepiration' with EnAccord and Wilmar de Visser, three days between 4-8 July. Please write me an email via the contactform on this website.
09/11/2011

Ties Mellema is now endorsed by Vandoren. He plays Vandoren AL3, SL3 and BL3, Vandoren classic reeds and Vandoren ligatures (Optimum, M/O).

28/10/2011

Amstel Quartet finishes diverse recording sessions: their own CD, Amstel Tracks II and Ruud van Eeten's debute CD on which they play his 'Punctus Einz'.

29/09/2011

Shop Paypal payment system back online. Order your CD's now!

22/09/2011

Composer Ian Wilson about Ties' Dutch premier performance of 'Dog and Gun' for sax and electronics:
"This is really beautiful – a totally different take on the music which I completely enjoyed! Well done, very cool!"

10/08/2011
Parool, 8-8-'11, an announcement of concerts in August
03/08/2011

Time Out Magazine August '11: "Critic's Picks, best action of the month": Ties Mellema, EnAccord, Wilmar de Visser: "Prince with a twist"

06/07/2011

Donate now to Ties' Prince project, his attempt to combine contemporary music with the music of Prince.

15/06/2011

An audience reaction to Ties' concert in Leiden (Dutch): "

Ties, je performance in Leiden (hofje) was geweldig. Je bent werkelijk een virtuoos. Je experimentele deel, moet je heus op cd zetten. Hoewel het beeld erbij, minstens zo interessant is."

01/06/2011

Enthousiaste amateurmusici gezocht voor spannend locatieproject tijdens Festival Uitgast 21 augustus 2011

18/05/2011

Saxophone Concerto repertoire Ties Mellema now online

18/05/2011

Programmes 2012-2013 Now online (English): Ties Mellema/Hans Eijsackers; Half Bloof, the Music of Prince, Shadows (solo saxophone); Minimal Ties (minimal music now and then)

04/05/2011

Dutch Heights, Award winning Dutchmen, page 376: "Mellema consistently treats the listener to a new understanding of whatever piece he is playing, in jazz it known as improvisation, in classical it is called interpretation."

04/05/2011

Nieuwsbrief programmeurs nu  online (Dutch only)

03/05/2011

Programma's '12-'13 nu online

15/02/2011

Jean Marie Londeix about Ties Mellema's latest CD, for full review see the 'press' section:

"throughout magnificent!"

14/01/2011

New Amstel Quartet 'Amstel Raga' out now. Featuring Niti Ranjan Biswas, tabla. Available in the Amstel Records webshop in this site.

21/12/2010
This week every weekday at about 13:15 plus Monday 27 December Ties Mellema tells about his favourite known and unknwon music on Muziekwijzer, Radio 4, hosted by Edwin Rutten. A.o. Raaf Hekkema plays Paganini, Verklarte Nacht, Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Creation du Monde, Van Klaveren and much more.
21/12/2010
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