Bart van Lier

Bart van Lier was a member of the following ensembles: the Tony Nolte TV
Orchestra, the Netherlands Jazz Orchestra, Rogier van Otterloos TV Orchestra for the program Music All Inn, Boy's Big Band, and Slide
Hampton's 4trombone group.
From 1977 he played in Cees Slinger's Just in Case, the ³Frans Elsen Septett (until 1979), the Ramblers (until 1980) , the Skymasters and
today he still plays with the Peter Herbholzheimer Big Band and Nueva Manteca.

Bart has been teaching at the Hilversum Conservatory since 1980, as well as the Hague Conservatory (1977-83 and 1991-94).
He has a post at the Rotterdam Conservatory since 1998.
The trombone Model Bart van Lier went into production by Fa. Kühnl and Hoyer in 1994, and the same year his technique book Coordination Training Program for Trombone Playing was published for the international market. He was appointed permanent first trombonist and soloist of the Metropole Orchestra in 1992, and since 1990 his own groups Bart's Bones and Trio Bart van Lier have been performing for the Nederland Impresariaat. In 1998 the Bart van Lier- Ilja Reyngoud quintet was founded. Over the years Bart has given Trombone workshops in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. Noteworthy recordings are First Brass (1985), Bart's Bones (1991), and his solo album with the Metropole Orchestra, Twighlight (1998).