VietNamNet Bridge - Modern jazz lovers can enjoy performances of the Dutch Tineke Postma Group on 4 December in Hanoi and 6 December in HCM City.

The quartet plays compositions of Tineke Postma (photo), which can be characterized as experimental yet accessible modern jazz. Postma is praised by many for her melodic playing and the energetic interplay between the members of her group.

Saxophonist and composer Tineke Postma (1978) graduated with honours from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where she now teaches. She was awarded two scholarships to study at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she studied with Dick Oatts, David Liebman and Chris Potter.

In 2006, she received the prestigious French “MIDEM International Jazz Revelation of the Year 2006” award (Victoires du Jazz). She tours regularly with American musicians such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dianne Reeves, Esperanza Spalding and Geri Allen. In 2005 she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Since 2003 Tineke Postma released three cd’s and a dvd. She will record her new cd in February 2009 in New York. Her third cd “A Journey That Matters” (2007) was well received internationally; “The Evening Stardard” (UK) called her “one of the leading ladies in jazz!”

The performances in Hanoi (Youth Theatre, 11 Ngo Thi Nham) and HCM City (Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du, District 1) take place as part of the European Music Festival, co-organised by the Delegation of the European Commission in Hanoi and participating member states.

Free tickets can be reserved and collected at:

Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi, Tel: (04) 37 34 22 51 and 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, HCMC, Tel: (08) 39252011

L ’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi, Tel: (04) 39 3621 64

British Council, 20 Thuy Khue, Hanoi, Tel: (04) 38 4367 80

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