Melissa Venema

In December 2005, Melissa auditioned at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, when it was decided that she immediately get lessons from Frits Damrow. Frits is international trumpeter, solotrompettist at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and he has several textbooks for trumpet attributed to his name.
Frits led Melissa to the entrance, on 22 April 2006, for the Young-Talentenklas of the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Melissa has passed that test and it is in September 2006, in addition to her ordinary school, began her classical studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where they also were less aware of Frits Damrow. Meanwhile there it was also determined that Melissa made very good progress.

Furthermore Melissa will regularly appear as soloist in various parts of the country with the known Zaanse organist Dub de Vries. It provides concerts with both classical and religious music. In addition, they shall appear with him sometimes with different choirs in the country. Melissa plays among other things, together with famous artists such as Liselotte Rokyta, Martin Virtue, Carla Leurs and Yta van der Zwaag.

Melissa, in the summer of 2006, participated in a summer project in Oostzaan. The composer Erik Waerts selected only Melissa for an eight and a half minute solo from the song “Concerto for Trumpet and Youth Band”. She was by far the youngest. The entire concert is on a CD. Erik Waerts has sent Melissa a personal card that read: "Thanks for the wonderful performance of my trompetconcert! Good luck with your (trumpet) future".

Melissa also auditioned for the famous semi-professional Gelders Orchestra Fanfare selected and presented on January 13, 2007 to this very successful solo orchestra played in the major sports in Wez.

Il Silenzio (The Silence)

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Il Silenzio is an Italian song most notable for its trumpet tune. It was written in 1965 by trumpet player Nini Rosso and Guglielmo Brezza^[1] and became a world wide instrumental standard which has sold more than 10 million copies.^{[citation needed]} It became a number one hit in Germany, Austria, Italy and in Switzerland in 1965.