BART VAN LIER

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Bart Van Lier - photo Jos L. Knaepen

Bart has been teaching trombone at the Jazz-Light Music Department of the Conservatory Hilversum in the Netherlands, since 1980 and is teaching since September 1998 at the Jazz-Light Music Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music.

Since the 1970's Bart has worked with various jazz ensembles and big bands, including the Mel Lewis - Joe Haider Big Band, The Slide Hampton Trombone Quartet and Peter Herbolzheimer's Big Band. Bart has been a member of the Skymasters since 1975, he also performs as first trombone player and solist with the Metropole Orchestra.

Together with his brother, Erik van Lier, he has participated in "International Trombone Association" workshops in the U.S.A. (Nashville 1987) and England (Eton 1989). In 1997 Bart was soloist at the North Sea Jazz Festival with the Highlight Jazz Orchestra and one year later he was together with saxophonist Leo Janssen guest soloist for a LIVE TROS radio program, also backed by the Highlight Jazz Orchestra.

Bart can be heard on recordings of the Metropole Orchestra, the Peter Herbolzheimer big band and on the special brass album First Brass, M-A music, Hamburg.

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Bart Van Lier (trombone) & Leo Janssen (tenorsax)
(composition Rob Noble - arrangement by Peter Herbolzheimer)
Guest with René Laanen's Highlight Jazz Orchestra (Laren, The Netherlands, March 8th 1998)

René Laanen, Bart van Lier & Conrad Herwig

Bart van Lier - Author "Training Program for Trombone playing"

• I really enjoyed this book! > Bob McChesney
• This book is a welcome addition for both students and teachers of trombone > Jiggs Whigham
• Every brass player stands to benefit from the information in this extended study! > Bill Watrous
• The ultimate book for solving the ever-present problems facing every trombonist; of coordination of embouchure, breath and slide movement> Carl Fontana

Bart plays a Kuehnl and Hoyer Trombone

 

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