Gerlieke Aartsen

About Gerlieke Aartsen

Gerlieke Aartsen is an oboist, music teacher and children’s theatre maker. She gives oboe lessons in Landsmeer and provides music lessons and interactive musical theatre performances for children.

Music lessons

Gerlieke gives private lessons on the oboe, cor anglais and oboe d’amore. She also teaches through Muziekvereniging Amicitia and teaches music in the classroom.

• Oboe lessons
• Cor anglais lessons
• Oboe d’amore lessons
• Music lessons

Children’s performances

With Glenn Liebaut, Gerlieke performs as the duo Bas en Uk, creating interactive musical theatre performances around the theme of Kinderboekenweek. The duo visits schools and also performs in libraries.

• Interactive musical theatre performances
• Workshops at children’s performances

Performances

Gerlieke performs in a range of ensembles and at regular and less usual concert venues. With harpist Mirjam Rietberg, she performs a repertoire that includes classical music, tangos and klezmer.

• Performances at concert venues, schools, hospitals, care homes, asylum seeker centres, living rooms, exhibitions, conferences and parties
• Chamber concerts with harp

Education

Gerlieke studied oboe at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and graduated cum laude from the Master’s programme in 2012. In 2016, she completed the part-time Music Teacher programme.