Study
Thom de Klerk studied at the Royal Conservatorium in the Hague with Jacq. Poons, an old school teacher who let his pupils study musical scales for hours on end. Some of Poons’s other pupils were David Meyer and Louis Stotijn, who both later became solo bassoonists in the Residentie Orchestra in the Hague. In 1935 Thom de Klerk, aged twenty-three, won the appointment to first solo bassoonist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Willem Mengelberg. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra was voted best symphony orchestra in the world in 2008, being in the top ten since its foundation.
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