Tess van der Velde
Tess van der Velde (1992) is an Amsterdam based film/media composer and songwriter. She studied a Bachelor Pop at the Conservatory of Amsterdam from 2011 to 2015. During that time, besides being a songwriter in several bands, she started doing more and more music for commercials.
WebsiteAfter graduating she decided to continue down this path by entering the Master Composing for Film at the Netherlands Film Academy. During her Master’s Degree, she had a chance to collaborate on a number of films and commercials and has been doing so ever since. Her style is best described as light-hearted, dreamy and quirky, but could easily be something totally different. You can listen to her scores in fiction films and series like: ANNE+, Bep & Bodien, VLAM, LIV and Cavello, in documentaries such as De vliegende hond, Skip en de Rhythm Rangers, Zwitserse kust, Zoals zij and Nettiquette and she worked on commercials for De Bijenkorf, Philips, KLM, La Redoute, Amorelie and Zalando amongst others.
"At the beginning, it contains a lot of staring out the window, maybe playing a couple of notes on a piano or a guitar, or singing into my mobile phone, disliking a lot of the things I come up with and starting over."
Interview with BUMA composer Tess van der Velde by Young Film Critic Zanji Sinkala.