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Quirine Viersen - cello |
FRANK MARTIN
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra KODÁLY, RICHARD STRAUSS, JANÁCEK, WEBERN Works for violoncello & piano INSPIRED BY… VAN BEETHOVEN, MARTINU, HINDEMITH BRAHMS, HUMMEL, CHOPIN
Works for violoncello & piano |
Dutch cellist QUIRINE VIERSEN belongs international to the leading musical personalities of the younger generation. With her powerful, intense and virtuoso playing, she has convinced the public, as well as the press and colleague musicians of her special musicality. With her performance in concerto and recital and with her participation at festivals, she has shown a broad insight in classical music literature. Quirine was already a winner of various prizes at national and international competitions, such as the Rostropovich Competition in 1990 in Paris, the International Cello Competition in Helsinki in 1991, and in April 1994 Quirine Viersen was the first Dutch musician to win a prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In that same year she also received the Dutch Music Award.
The most important prize awarded to her up to now was the Young Artist Award 2000 which was presented to her by the Credit Suisse Groupe. Quirine received her first cello lessons from her father, Yke Viersen, who is a cellist in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Later on the conservatory she received lessons from Jean Decroos and Dmitri Ferschtman. She closed her studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 1997 as a student from Heinrich Schiff. Among the most important orchestras and conductors Quirine performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Herbert Blomstedt and Bernard Haitink, Hessische Radio Orchestra with Hugh Wolff, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with Jean Fournet and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta. In January 2005 she will play with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Georges Pehlivanian. In the domain of chamber music Quirine is also in great demand. She is regular guest at festivals such as the Delft Chamber Music Festival, Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz and the Mondsee Tage and has played in the famous Risor Festival in Norway, Luzerner Festwochen and Mondsee Tage in Austria.With her duo-partner pianist Silke Avenhaus with whom she forms a duo since 1996, she obtained an important place in the international concert life. Quirine plays on a Joseph Guarnerius Filius Andreae cello from 1715 placed at her disposal by the National Music Instrument Foundation. |
