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2017
Amsterdam University of the Arts
Viola Festival
Viola Festival
5th National Viola Competition
CONSERVATORIUM VAN AMSTERDAM
with a.o.
Nobuko Imai
Oene van Geel & Wenting Kang
D E S I G N : TWI Z T E R / P E T E R T E B OS OP M A A K : W OU T E R v / d ST R U IJ S
5th National Viola Competition
6th Amsterdam
6th Amsterdam Viola Festival & 5th National Viola Competition
Program 15-19 February 2017
Amsterdam Viola Festival & National Viola Competition
We are very pleased to welcome you to this special viola event. February is once again
dominated by the Amsterdam Viola Festival & National Viola Competition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA). International guests from different countries share their
expertise and bring allure to our festival. Colleagues from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the major Dutch orchestra and ensembles play for us and with us. Big names
from the viola world will give masterclasses and concerts during the Viola Festival and
take place as jury members at the National Viola Competition.
Festival
Special guests are Nobuko Imai, Wenting Kang and Oene van Geel. On a daily basis
there are master classes, concerts and classes given by among others: Marjolein Dispa,
Jürgen Kussmaul, Sven Arne Tepl, Richard Wolfe and Francien Schatborn. The highlight
of the festival is the event on February 18 from 16.30 in Splendor: the program includes
a lecture by violamaker Jan van der Elst, performances by participants from the Viola
Competition, a concert by young viola talents between 7 and 17 years and the result of
an improvisation workshop by Oene van Geel. Early Saturday afternoon, the youngest
viola talents from all over the Netherlands will be playing during a workshop with Judith
Wijzenbeek. This festival connects all ages! Our festival includes a ‘Mozart Marathon’ of
all Mozart quintets on Saturday. Don’t miss this special event!
Competition
The Viola Competition is open to participants with the Dutch nationality or living in the
Netherlands (including students from abroad who study at a Dutch institution). The age
limit is 33 years. The finale takes place on 19 February at 14.00 in the Sweelinckzaal.
Previous winners are: Armen Nazarian (2015), Marc Sabbah (2013), Anna-Magdalena Den
Herder (2011) and Saeko Oguma (2009). The National Viola Competition will take place
for the fifth time. Eighteen talented young violists have been admitted and may appear
before an international jury.
To all guests, colleagues and partners who have supported us, and especially to our audience many thanks for your interest in the VIOLA and this important platform…
Let’s start and celebrate the viola!
Musical greetings,
The viola section Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Francien Schatborn (coordinator), Sven Arne Tepl, Marjolein Dispa, Richard Wolfe,
Judith Wijzenbeek (young talent)
Artistic coordinator: Francien Schatborn [email protected]
Producers: Marianne Berenschot and Clara Brons cva-projectbureauklassiek.nl
WEDNESDAY February 15 Conservatorium
17.00
warming up concours room 4.06/4.08
19.00-22.00
Competition 1st round - 6 participants
19.00-19.25
Carla Regio
19.25-19.50
Evgeniya Peschanskaya
19.50-20.15
Jose Nunes
Sweelinckzaal
-break20.30-20.55
20.55-21.20
21.20-21.45
Hessel Moeselaar
Ursula Skaug
Martin Moriarty
Repertoire 1st Round: 16-2-2017
• one of the Mozart duos for violin and viola, KV 423 or 424,
first movement, no repeats.
• solo work of Oene van Geel, Part 1 Skip Count Sweet Miles Part 2: Gesualdo’s Bovenkamer
• Enescu Concert piece
THURSDAY February 16 Conservatorium
09.00
warming up competition room 4.01/4.32
10.00-17.00 Competition 1st round - 12 participants
Sweelinckzaal
10.00-10.25
10.25-10.50
10.50-12.15
12.15-12.40
Lara Albasano
Kellen McDaniel
Kardelen Buruk
Lotus de Vries
-break13.25-13.50
13.50-14.15
14.15-14.40
14.40-15.05
Esther Fernandez Olalla
Sophie Vroegop
William Murray
Konoe Takehiro
-break15.20-15.45
15.45-16.10
16.10-16.35
16.35-17.00
Hannah Shaw Michiel Wittink
Joosep Ahun
Olga Kowalczyk
Repertoire 1st Round: 16-2-2017
• one of the Mozart duos for violin and viola, KV 423 or 424,
first movement, no repeats.
• solo work of Oene van Geel, Part 1 Skip Count Sweet Miles
Part 2: Gesualdo’s Bovenkamer
• Enescu Concert piece
09.30-14.00 Masterclass Nobuko Imai room 4.41
11.00-17.00
Masterclass Sven TeplTheaterzaal
15.30-19.00
Masterclass Nobuko Imai & Wenting Kang
Bernard
Bartok duo’sHaitinkzaal
17.00-19.00 Open rehearsal Oene van Geel viola concert and Sweelinckzaal
teachers concert
THURSDAY February 16
19.30
Oene van Geel & Teachers Concert
Conservatorium
Sweelinckzaal
Oene van Geel violaconcerto with ensemble CvA,
soloist Annemarie Hensens
four movements
Helga Korbar, Maren Bosma (violin) Sara Novoselic (cello)
Mirna Ackers (flute) Gema Lara Ruana (oboe/english horn)
Francisco Ruiz (clarinet) Marjolein Schipper (bass clarinet)
Aideen Copeland (piano) Alberto Rodriguez Rodriguez
(percussion) and Oene van Geel (cajon)
-break-
JS. Bach, 5 Inventionen: C major, C minor, E major, D minor
and F major.
Marjolein Dispa and Richard Wolfe (viola)
Schumann - So war die Sonne scheinet - Frühlingslied -An den
Abendstern - Mailied
Francien Schatborn and Marjolein Dispa (viola) with
Daniel Kramer (piano)
Joel Hoffman. “...the first time and the last” (2009, rev.2015)
Richard Wolfe, Judith Wijzenbeek, Marjolein Dispa and
Francien Schatborn (viola)
York Bowen - Fantasie for Four Violas
Francien Schatborn, Richard Wolfe, Marjolein Dispa and
Judith Wijzenbeek (viola)
Scarlatti - Sonata in F for 4 Violas (L.345) -Allegro con brio
Nobuko Imai, Francien Schatborn, Marjolein Dispa and
Richard Wolfe (viola)
FRIDAY February 17 Conservatorium
09.00 warming up competition room 4.01/4.31
09.00-11.30
warming up competitionBernard
Haitinkzaal
09.30-11.30 Masterclass Marjolein Dispa room 4.05
09.30-11.30 Masterclass Francien Schatborn room 4.08
09.30-11.30 Masterclass Richard Wolfe
room 4.34
10.00-17.00 Masterclass Sven Arne Tepl room 4.38
12.30-17.00 Masterclass Wenting Kang room 4.08
11.30-16.50 Competition 2nd round - 8 participantsBernard
t.b.a.Haitinkzaal
Repertoire 2nd Round: 17-2-2017
30-35 minutes of music, combining (movements from) one of the
following sonatas, and (movements from) one of the following
20th century music pieces for solo viola.
- choose (movements) from one of the following sonatas:
• Martinu, 1st sonata
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Bax, sonata
Röntgen, sonata in c
Milhaud, 2nd sonata
Koechlin, sonata
Badings, sonata
De Cruck, sonata
- choose (movements) from one of the following 20th century solo
pieces:
• Hindemith, solo sonatas
• Ligeti, solo sonata
• Reger, solo suites
• Britten, three suites for solo viola, transcription from the cello by Nobuko Imai (Faber music)
• Stravinsky, élégie
• Penderecki, cadenza
18.00-19.30
Open rehearsal for Splendor Concert with conductor Jürgen Kussmaul Mozart – parts of The Magic Flute
Sweelinckzaal
20:00 Concert Nobuko Imai & Wenting Kang
Bernard
Haitinkzaal
Ligeti Sonate for Viola Solo Wenting Kang
1. Hora lunga 2. Loop 3. Facsar Brahms Sonata in e-minor for violoncello and piano
Nobuko Imai and Martijn Willers, piano
-Allegro non troppo -Allegretto quasi Menuetto -Allegro
-break-
Selection from Bartok 44 duos for two violins
Nobuko Imai and Wenting Kang
No. 44, 19, 16, 28, 43, 36, 21, 42, 7, 25, 33, 4, 34, 1, 8, 6, 9
No. 44 closing with all students of the masterclass on Thursday
SATURDAY February 18
Conservatorium
09.00-10.30
Warming up Mozart Quintets
Sweelinckzaal
10.00-15.00
Young Talent Masterclass Judith Wijzenbeek
room
4.05/4.07/4.09
11.00-13.00
Masterclass Improvisatie Oene van Geel
Bernard
Haitinkzaal
11.00-15.00
Masterclass Jürgen Kussmaul
room 7.03
11.00-14.00
Mozart Marathon
Sweelinckzaal
Mozart Quintet No. 6 in E-flat major 1.Allegro di molto II. Andante III. Menuetto - Allegretto – Trio IV. Allegro
Cordelia Paw, Richard Wolfe (violin) William Murray,
Asdis Valdimarsdottir (viola) and Mick Stirling (cello)
Mozart Quintet No. 5 in D major -
I. Larghetto - Allegro - Larghetto - Primo Tempo II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Allegro
DOSTOYEVSKI QUARTET Charlotte Basalo Vázquez, Julia Kleinsmann
(violin) Lisa Eggen, Francien Schatborn (viola) and Emma Kroon (cello)
Mozart Quintet No 2 in c minor - I. Allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto in
canone-trio in canone al roverscio IV. Allegro
Anna Cikste, Richard Wolfe (violin) Laura Hovestad, Jurriaan Klapwijk
(viola) and Madara Fogelmane (cello)
-break-
13.00
Mozart Quintet No. 3 in C Major 1.Allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto: Allegro VI. Allegro
CANTO QUARTET Annet Verboom, Guillem Cabre Salagre (violin)
Carlos Delgado Antequera, Marjolein Dispa (viola) and Teodora
Nedyalkova (cello)
Mozart Quintet No.1 in B-flat major I.Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Menuetto ma allegretto VI. Allegro
CHENG QUARTET Hui-Wen Cheng, Wan-Ru Cheng (violin)
Richard Wolfe, Shih-Hsien Tsai (viola) and Sheng-Chiun Lin (cello)
SATURDAY February 18
Splendor
16.30
Lecture Jan van der Elst
Small hall
How to keep your instrument in order (English spoken)
17.15
New year’s reception & buffet
Dutch Viola Society
Foyer
18:30
Viola Pitch Dutch Viola Society
Foyer
19.00
Concert Young Talent
talent between 7 and 17 years old
Small hall
19.00
Viola Lounge
Relax concert with teachers and students of CvA
Attic
20.30
“Bonte Avond”
Attic
Aram Kaciaturian - Andantino for 3 violas
Liselot Blomaard, Rita Proença and Lotte Grotholt
Bach Partita in g-moll für Flöte solo Saeko Oguma
Allemande – Courrente – Sarabande -Bourrée Anglaise
Best performance Mozart duo competition 1st round
Best performance new work Oene van Geel competition 1st round
Part 1 Skip Count Sweet Miles Part 2: Gesualdo’s Bovenkamer
Benjamin Dale - Introduction& Andante for 6 Violas opus 5
Lisa Eggen, Carlos Delgado Antequera, Laura Hovestadt,
Annemarie Hensens, Blanca Sanchez and Floris Faber
-break-
Arie van Hoek - Divertimento for 8 violas (world premiere)
Largo - Allegro – Largo, Largo maestoso, Scherzando, Largo, Presto
Violaclass Rotterdam: Karin Dolman, Ulla Thorsteinsdottir, Esther
Fernandez, Marta Ocette Montoro, Raquel Sanchez Gonzalez, Rayen
Estraviz, Francesca Wiersma and Stefano Sancassan
Presentation/workshop improvisation Oene van Geel
Mozart - Fragments from the Magic Flute, arranged for 4 Violas,
conducted by Jürgen Kussmaul
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja, Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön, Der Hölle
Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Marsch der Priester, Bei Männern,
welche Liebe fühlen, Pa-Pa-Pa
Performed by all the teachers and students of the viola department CvA
23.00
End
SUNDAY February 19
Conservatorium
09.00
warming up competition
room 4.01/4.31
09.00-12.00
warming up competition
Bernard
Haitinkzaal
12.00
Teachers Lunch Concert
Sweelinckzaal
Telemann Concerto no.3 for 4 violas
Grave – Allegro - Largo e staccato - Allegro
Marjolein Dispa, Francien Schatborn, Richard Wolfe and
Jürgen Kussmaul (viola)
Mozart string quintet g-minor KV 516
Allegro - menuetto, allegretto, trio - adagio, ma non troppo adagio - allegro
Peter Brunt, Emma Rose Rooyakkers (violin) Richard Wolfe,
Marjolein Dispa (viola) and Michel Dispa (cello)
14.00
Competition FINAL - 3 participants
Bernard
Haitinkzaal
Repertoire 3rd Round: 19-2-2017
• Enescu Concert piece
• 1st movement of: Bartók or Walton Viola Concertos,
or Hindemith Schwanendreher.
16.00
Results
Bernard
Haitinkzaal
16.30
Drinks
mezzo/kantine
Jury
Roland Kieft, chairman, (1960) is a Dutch conductor and
director of the Foundation for Broadcast Music (Stichting
Omroep Muziek) in Hilversum. Previously, he was director of
the Hague Philharmonic and presenter and program maker
at AVRO Classic. Kieft grew up in a musical family: both his
parents played in the Brabants Orkest. He initially
studied cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Later
on he switched to conducting at the Utrecht Conservatory
and at Tanglewood (USA), where he took classes with Leonard
Bernstein. Kieft has stood for nearly all professional
symphony orchestras in the Netherlands, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residence Orchestra. He also
conducted performances with Opera Forum (now the National Touring Opera) and at
major Dutch ballet companies. Kieft was also active abroad, among others at the
Minnesota Orchestra, the Orchestra of Radio France and the radio orchestras of East
Berlin and St. Petersburg. He has conducted in almost all European countries and in
Africa, Japan and the United States.
Additionally Kieft was active in the Netherlands as a conductor of a number of youth and
student orchestras, the Nijmegen Strijkersensemble, Hofstads Youth, Dutch Youth String
Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, the Dutch Student Orchestra (four
times in 1987, 1993, 1995 and 2000) and the UvA orchestra J. Pzn Sweelinck. In recent
years, Kieft was creator and editor at Radio 4 AVRO. He interviewed many famous
musicians over the years: conductor Nicolaus Harnoncourt, cellist Mischa Maisky,
violinist Itzhak Perlman and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.
Jürgen Kussmaul (1944) was born into a well-known family
of musicians and studied first violin with his father, later viola
in Mannheim. After studying at the Hochschule Mannheim
Jürgen Kussmaul received his first appointment as solo violist
in Heidelberg. A few years later he became solo violist with
the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne and taught at the Royal
Conservatory in The Hague, where he came into contact with
the Dutch baroque scene. Since 1970, he plays with Vera Beth
and Anner Bylsma in the ensemble L’Archibudelli. In 1979 he
became a lecturer at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule and
in 1991 he founded the Robert Schumann Chamber Orchestra on got the Art Prize of the
Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.
As a guest conductor Jürgen Kussmaul also leads the chamber orchestra Amsterdam
Mozart Players. In addition, he conducted at the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber
Orchestra B-A-C-H of Ekaterinburg and he performed at various festivals in Europe.
He also led the Gustav Mahler Academy Orchestra of the Eighth Symphony of Anton
Bruckner and the Tokyo Classical Players with a Beethoven program during a tour of
Japan. As a chamber musician and soloist he has given concerts all over the world and
made many CD recordings. He is the artistic director of the Claudio Abbado founded
Gustav Mahler Academy in Bolzano.
Eric van der Wel studied viola with Ervin Schiffer at the
Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Tilburg.
He graduated in solo performance. For a couple of years
Eric van der Wel was Ervin Schiffer’s teaching assistant at the
Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.
From 1983 till 1990 Eric van der Wel was co-principal viola of
the Residentie Orkest (The Hague Philharmonic); from 1990
till 2016 he was a member of the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra. As a violist he played – and still plays –in various
chamber music ensembles with members of the RCO.
Eric van der Wel is member of the Trio Amsterdam-Berlin, a string trio which recently
recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the Lobkowitz Quartet.
Hannah Strijbos (1989) performs as a soloist and chamber
musician throughout Europe and North America. Born in
Lelystad, the Netherlands, Hannah received her first violin
lessons at the age of eight. Until she was 18 she studied at the
Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Coosje Wijzenbeek,
who encouraged her to pick up the viola. She then started
her undergraduate studies on the viola at the Conservatorium
van Amsterdam with Marjolein Dispa, also receiving regular
coachings with Nobuko Imai and Jürgen Kussmaul.
She complemented her undergraduate studies with an Erasmus exchange at de
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
In December 2011 she concluded her undergraduate studies with the highest distinction.
Hannah is currently based in London. She recently finished her postgraduate degree
with first class honours at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied
with David Takeno and currently holds a Junior Fellowship. As a passionate chamber
musician, Hannah has played with musicians such as Colin Carr, Janine Jansen, Liza
Ferschtman, Godfried Hoogeveen and Nobuko Imai. She is a member of the Berlin based
Jacques Thibaud Trio, with which she performs throughout Europe and the United
States and records on the German label Audite. She also recently formed the London
based Werther Ensemble, a flexible group based around a piano quartet. She was a
member of the Dutch Allegra Quartet for eight years, with which she performed
throughout Europe including several recitals in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Hannah has received several prizes at both national and international competitions,
including the Dutch National Viola Competition (Amsterdam, 2011), The Charles
Hennen International Chamber Music Competition (2005 and 2007) and the Iordens
Viooldagen (The Hague, 2004). Studies and masterclasses were made possible by awards
and scholarships from the Fonds Podiumkunsten (Foundation of the Performing Arts),
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Mengelberg Foundation, Niemeijer Foundation and the
Han Lammers Foundation.
Biographies teachers masterclasses
Nobuko Imai (1943) is considered one of the leading
contemporary viola players. After completing her studies at
the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan, Yale University
and the Juilliard School in the USA, she won top awards at
the international competitions in Munich and Geneva. She
combines her international solo career - which has brought
her together with orchestras of worldwide renown - with
numerous performances as a chamber musician.
Her chamber music partners include Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo
Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman. Nobuko Imai was
formerly a member of the famous Vermeer Quartet and is today a member of the
Michelangelo String Quartet. She taught as a Professor at the Conservatories in Detmold
and in Amsterdam for many years. Currently, she teaches at the Conservatory in
Geneva and is Artistic Adviser at Casals Hall in Tokyo, where she has spent many years
in charge of the festival “Viola Space”.
Wenting Kang (1979) was born in Zhuzhou, China. She
started playing the violin at the age of six but changed to the
viola in 2003. Following her studies in Shanghai and Beijing
she moved to Boston to study with Garth Knox and Kim
Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music.
She also attended masterclasses given by Matthias Buchholz,
Pinchas Zukermann, Roberto Diaz, Tabea Zimmermann and
Bruno Pasquier. The Chinese violist has won several
competition prizes. In 2010 she was awarded third prize in
the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria.
One year later she was presented with the Robertson Prize at the renowned Primrose
International Viola Competition. In 2012 she also won first prize in the Tokyo International
Viola Competition. Since 2004 Wenting Kang has given regular concert performances.
She has played in major concert halls in Asia, America and Europe and has participated
in the Morningside Bridge International Music Festival in Canada, the Orchestra
Academy of Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Verbier Festival Academy and the
Monadnock Festival, the Steans Institute of Ravinia Festival and the Yellow Barn Festival
in the USA. These festivals gave her opportunities to play chamber music with artists
such as Donald Palma, Kim Kashkashian, Alan Kay and Paul Katz. In 2014 she took part
in Chamber Music Connects the World. Since 2013 Wenting Kang has been studying as a
Young Soloist at Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai.
Violist / composer Oene van Geel (1973) is a true adventurer
in music. Influenced by jazz, chamber music, Indian music
and free improvisation, he has applied his virtuoso
improvisation skills and his composition talents to a wide
scope of musical activities.
He toured in Europe, India, Japan, the USA and Canada. As a
player he is currently active with: Zapp4, Estafest, The
Nordanians, Haanstra & van Geel and a duo with Matteo
Mijderwijk. Besides these groups he is regularly invited as an
improvising guest soloist. He has won the Boy Edgar Award (2013), the Sena Performers
Toonzetters Award (2012, with Zapp4) Kersjes Award (2005, with Zapp4), the Deloitte
Jazz Award (2002), Dutch Jazz Competition (2001) and the Jur Naessens Music Award
(2000).
Oene composes for his own groups, but also writes for other ensembles / soloists. In 2015
Oene wrote his first viola concerto for Emlyn Stam and the New European Ensemble
(premiered 18 December, Bimhuis, Amsterdam). Oene often gets commissions by
festivals such as the Cello Biennale Amsterdam (2016 and 2008) and North Sea Jazz
Festival. As a player and composer he was involved in theatre productions and he has a
special interest in dance. At this moment he is scoring a documentary for Lataster films
(to be premiered October 2016). In 2017 Oene and composer Florian Magnus Maier will
compose a new opera for the Dutch National Opera.
Francien Schatborn (1969) graduated in 1995 with honors
from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where she studied
with Jürgen Kussmaul. She attended master classes with,
among others, Tabea Zimmermann, Fyodor Drushinin and
Kim Kashkashian, and chamber music with Menahem Pressler
and Istvan Párkányi. In 1994 she received the Silver Laurel of
the Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
with pianist Jeannette Koekkoek, with whom she forms a duo
and gives recitals in the Netherlands, Italy, France and the US.
Their first duo CD with romantic Dutch music, was published by Etcetera in December,
2003. In 2006 their second album was released, including all viola sonatas by Rontgen.
Both CDs were very well received.
Francien Schatborn has been solo violist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra since 1995. In addition, she performed with Dutch Piano Quartet and giving
regular concerts in Europe, USA, South America and Asia, including the Music Society
led by Christiaan Bor. As a soloist she worked with orchestras such as the Radio
Chamber Orchestra, the North Holland Philharmonic Orhest, Holland Symphonia, Dutch
Student Orchestra and her own band, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently,
Francien is also teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Judith Wijzenbeek (1983) studied viola with Marjolein Dispa
and Nobuka Imai at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and
obtained her bachelor’s degree with distinction in 2007. She
continued her study with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hans
Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In 2009 she obtained
her masters degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Judith has also succesfully completed the Academy of the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2008-2009. She plays in
several chamber music ensembles, such as Ensemble Galante
and the Sequenza String Trio, with which she regularly performs home and abroad.
She has been a viola teacher at the Sweelinck Academy of the Conservatorium van
Amsterdam since 2008.
Richard Wolfe (1953) was born in New York and pursued his
violin studies with Aaron Shapinsky and Dorothy Delay and
graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he studied
with Walter Levin (La Salle Quartet). He then spent five years
in Israel as a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and
during that period became interested in the viola. He settled
in the Netherlands in 1983 and has been principal viola soloist
for the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra since 1986. He often
performs as a soloist with this orchestra. He is also very fond
of chamber music and is a member of the Sergiu Luca Ensemble Music in Context in the US, the Explorations Ensemble in Belgium and other ensembles in the Netherlands. In addition to his teaching activities at the Conservatorium van
Amsterdam, he teaches at festivals in Palma de Mallorca and Fontainebleau, France.
Marjolein Dispa (1962) studied with Ervin Schiffer and
graduated cum laude from the Royal University of Music in
Brussels. She studied chamber music with the Amadeus
Quartet at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Additionally,
Marjolein Dispa took part in courses with Kim Kaskashian,
André Gertler, Isaac Stern, Wolfgang Jahn and chamber music
with the Bartók Quartet and the Trio de Prague. Marjolein
was a prize winner at the Charles Hennen Chamber Music
Competition with the string trio Boussu. She was also a prize
winner at the Internationale Musiktage Goslar and a prize winner at the Dutch National
Impresario Competition with the NOG-Ensemble.
She performs regularly as a chamber musician and soloist throughout Europe as well
as in Russia, Israel and Australia and she is a regular guest at numerous international
festivals. She has been the principal viola with the Swedish String Orchestra Camerata
Roman for several years. At the same time, she plays in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and
the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. Remarkable are her recent concert tours based
upon the solo-repertoire of Telemann and Bach. Besides numerous radio and television
recordings, she has recorded CDs as a soloist performing chamber music by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Atterberg. Marjolein Dispa regularly gives
master classes in Germany, Belgium, France and Switzerland. She is also a teacher at the
Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Sven Arne Tepl (1966) studied viola and chamber music at
the conservatories of Detmold and Cologne with members of
the Amadeus Quartet, Christoph Poppen and Nobuko Imai.
In the United States he studied viola and chamber music
in Hartford and New York with Lawrence Dutton and the
Emerson String Quartet. From 1998-2006 he was a member
of the Utrecht String Quartet and from 2000-2007 solo violist
of Amsterdam Sinfonietta. With both ensembles he recorded
several award winning CDs.
In addition to his work as guest principle with several international orchestras and his
international chamber music career collaborating with musicians such as Paolo
Giacometti, Dmitri Ferschtmann, Pauline Oostenrijk, Antje Weithaas, Christoph Richter,
Vladimir Mendelssohn, Arno Bornkamp, the Emerson, Brodsky and Auryn Quartets, Sven
taught at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and held a professorship at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in London where he worked as a conductor as well. He was
artistic director of Holland Symfonia for three years and from 2009-2013 artistic director
and board member of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Netherlands Chamber
Orchestra, and an external consultant for the Britten-Pears Programme in Aldeburgh, UK.
Since 2006 Sven has been teaching viola and chamber music at the Conservatorium van
Amsterdam. He is also advisor of the NMF, AFK and board member of the NJO, NNO
and the Delft Chamber Music Festival. Sven is jury member of the Netherlands Music
Prize. From 2013-2016 he was Vice-Principal / Director of Classical Music & Music in
Education at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As of April 1st, 2016, he has been
appointed Artistic Director of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague.
Ticket information
All activities at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam are free of charge, no reservation
possible.
Splendor activities “Bonte Avond”: Pre-sale 12,50-, normal tickets 12,50-, membership
Splendor 10,-, membership DVS, 10,- and CJP 10,-.
Splendor New Year’s reception & buffet Dutch Viola Society: Free for DVS membership,
otherwise 5,-. (applications: [email protected])
Masterclasses payment
Masterclass: 40,- , and Bartok duo’s 75,- for external participants. To be paid in advance
by bank transfer: Conservatorium van Amsterdam, IBAN: NL52RABO0309034426, BIC:
RABONL2U. (please mention your name, which masterclass(es) and date(s)
Locations
Conservatorium van Amsterdam Oosterdokskade 151, 1011 DL Amsterdam,
020 5277550 www.conservatoriumvanamsterdam.nl
Splendor Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116, 1011 LX Amsterdam, 020 845 3345
www.splendoramsterdam.com
Information desk
Foyer Conservatorium van Amsterdam a.o.: detailed schedule masterclasses,
schedule second round and final competition, biographies & repertoire participants.
Route Conservatorium van Amsterdam > Splendor
Conditions viola competition
Participants should have the Dutch nationality or should be living in the Netherlands
(including students from abroad who study at a Dutch institution). Age limit is 33 years.
Participants competition
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4.
Lara Albasano (1996)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA2
Imai/Dispa
Jose Nunes (1996)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3
Imai/Schatborn
Carla Regio (1989)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA2
Wolfe/Tepl
Evgeniya
Peschanskaya (1991)
Royal Conservatoire The Hague MA1
Zemtsov
5. Ursula Skaug (1997)
Royal Conservatoire The Hague BA2
Zemtsov
6. Martin Moriarty (1994) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3
Imai/Dispa
7. Hannah Shaw (1984)
The Juilliard School
MA
2008
8. Hessel Moesselaar (1995) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3
Dispa
9. Konoe Takehiro (1997)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA1
Schatborn/Imai
10. Olga Kowalczyk (1993) Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA1
Tepl
11. Lotus de Vries (1996)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3
Schatborn
12. Esther Fernandez Ollala Rotterdam Codarts
MA1
Dolman
(1994)
13. Michiel Wittink (1995)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3
Schatborn
14. Sophie Vroegop (1989) Royal Conservatoire The Hague BA4
Zemtsov
15. Joosep Ahun (1989)
Royal Conservatoire The Hague MA2
Zemtsov
16. William Murray (1985)
Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA2
Imai
17. Kellen McDaniel (1991) Royal Conservatoire The Hague MA2
Zemtsov
18. Kardelen Buruk (1996)
Royal Conservatoire The Hague BA3
Asdis
Valdimorsdottir
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