Jan Hollestelle
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Johannes Willem Jozias (Jan) Hollestelle (born 24 July 1947 in Den Helder) is a Dutch bassist, session musician and music teacher.Hollestelle is a son of the baritone David Hollestelle. He took violin lessons as a child. At the age of thirteen, Hollestelle became interested in the bass guitar and familiarized himself with this instrument. Three years later he got a double bass and continued to train on this instrument. After this he went to the Hilversums Muziek Lyceum where he graduated at the age of twenty-one.
With his brother Hans he played in the formation The Torero's. He also played in the Dutch version of the musical Hair in the late sixties. Hollestelle was also part of several other bands over the years, including The Tower, Autopilot, Robinson Cruiser and Spin. Under his own name he released the single Creepy in 1973, which did not make the charts.
Like his brother, he was a much sought-after session musician in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. He played on recordings by The Cats, Margriet Eshuijs, Boudewijn de Groot, Nick MacKenzie and many other artists.
From about 1981 Hollestelle taught bass guitar at the Hilversum Conservatory, and then until 2013 at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. From 1984 to about 2001 he played in the Metropole Orchestra. Since the early nineties he specialized in historical music and took lessons for it from Nicholas Pap. He has since played in various baroque groups.
