Tineke Postma
Background information
Born	(1978-08-31) 31 August 1978 (age 45) Heerenveen, Netherlands
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Saxophone
Years active	1989–present
Website	tinekepostma.com

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 and Manhattan School of Music between 1996 and 2003 and obtained a master's degree in music. Her teachers included David Liebman, Dick Oatts, and Chris Potter. In 2005, she began teaching at the Amsterdam Conservatory and is part of the saxophone faculty at Codarts Conservatory Rotterdam.

Postma worked with Terri Lyne Carrington on the Grammy Award winning album The Mosaic Project in 2011.^[1] She has performed with Greg Osby, Geri Allen, Ivan Paduart, Esperanza Spalding, and the Metropole Orchestra. In 2019, Postma was named Rising Star for Soprano Saxophone in DownBeat magazine's Critics Poll.^[2]

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)
• Aria (Edition, 2023)