Dutch saxophonist, composer and Grammy winner Tineke Postma tours internationally as a leader and featured guest. She has released six albums as a leader which have been received with great critical acclaim. Tineke’s next album will be released Spring 2020 which she recorded in NYC with Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis, Matt Brewer and Dan Weiss. The album contains new compositions from Tineke.
Tineke has worked with prominent artists and groups such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Barron, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves, Geri Allen, Nathalie Loriers, Tutu Puoane, the Metropole Orchestra and the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw.
Tineke is part of two Grammy awarded albums by Terri Lyne Carrington (“The Mosaic Project”) and Dianne Reeves (“Beautiful”). She is also received various awards such as the Jazz Juan Revelations Award” (2009 Antibes Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival), an Edison National Category (2011) for the Tineke Postma Quartet album “The Dawn of Light” and the prestigious Buma Boy Edgar Award (2015). Downbeat Polls have listed Tineke as a Rising Star in the soprano and alto saxophone categories.
In 2018, she performed with Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding and the Wayne Shorter Quartet for Wayne Shorter who received a Kennedy Honors Award in Washington. Tineke has performed twice at International Jazz Day Global concerts. In 2012, at the Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York with Wayne Shorter. Most recently, in 2019 she performed in Melbourne, Australia with Herbie Hancock.
Tineke studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Manhattan School of Music (2002) and lived in NYC from 2009-2013. Currently she is based in the Netherlands. She is part of the saxophone faculty of the Codarts Conservatory Rotterdam and also teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.