Introduction to me

Dear reader,

As you can read in the 'About Me' part I am Jochem, 15 years old and I love music. I am practically busy with music all day. Whether it is listening to music, making music, talking to music or thinking about music, music is always on my mind. I go to school at Laar & Berg in Laren, The Netherlands, where I follow the MYP, a bilingual program by the International Bacculerate Organization. At my school, creativity is really stimulated, so it is a great environment for artistic development.

I am playing the alto saxophone for the sixth year now, and still enjoying it a lot. I have lessons once a week and I like my teacher, Luc van Gessel, a lot. He is a good teacher who gives you a lot of freedom whilst teaching you a lot as well.

Since this year, he also teaches me the piano. I have had piano lessons for a year when I was about six, but my teacher got ill and she had to stop. From that moment on, I have kind of taught myself how to play the piano, but I cannot really read the piano notes very well, and he is helping me with that.

Also for my fifth year now, I am following classes in musical theatre. I do this in Bussum and am busy with it about ten hours a week. I really love the way you can express yourself and your emotions in the acting, singing and dancing. I have done two major productions so far, being The Wiz and West Side Story. In West Side Story, I had my first leading role, which was really cool. I love being on the stage and doing my thing.

For my Personal Project I am composing a piece of music, so you might find some posts on that in the future as well. I really hope that I can make a nice piece of music that entertains the people that listen to it.

Well, I think I have told you enough about myself so far. I hope you enjoy the things you will read on this blog. You can expect posts on the musical events in my life: the concerts I go to, cool things I did with music and troubles in my Personal Project.

Enjoy!