Jacques Meertens (born 16 April 1948)[1] is a Dutch clarinetist. He was the principal clarinetist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from September 1990 until his retirement in April 2013.[1] [2] He plays on a German Reform-Boehm system clarinet.
A native of Limburg, Meertens studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Bram de Wilde, who was principal clarinetist at the Concertgebouw Orchestra between 1940 and 1975.[1] Meertens was clarinetist at the and in Haarlem before he joined the Concertgebouw Orchestra.[3]