Daria van den Bercken

Daria van den Bercken (* Utrecht , 1979 ) is a Dutch pianist of Russian descent.

Life

Daria van den Bercken started playing the piano at the age of 10. She studied at the Rotterdam Conservatorium and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Mila Baslawskaja . After studying with Naum Grubert , she received her master’s degree . In 2000, a Rotary scholarship enabled her to do postgraduate studies at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington with Menahem Pressler and Leonard Hokanson . She received suggestions for her musical development. a. by Claude Frank , Murray Perahia , Leon Fleisher , Christian Zacharias and Alicia de Larrocha .

Appearances

Daria van den Bercken regularly gives solo recitals in the Netherlands and abroad (including in England, France, Slovenia, Canada, Switzerland, Japan and Germany). a. in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at the Gergiev Festival.

In addition to her solo appearances, she is an active chamber musician. For example, she often works with strings and singers. She also gives concerts in a duo with the Dutch bassoonist Bram van Sambeek and with the flautist Felicia van den End . She also performs with the Atrium String Quartet and violist Jennifer Stumm .

In 2007 van den Bercken made her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - she played Clara Schumann's piano concerto . The debut was also mentioned positively in national newspapers. Then she stepped u. a. with the Gelders Orkest under the direction of Christoph Poppen and again with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin .

Currently (2012) she is particularly dedicated to the works of Georg Friedrich Händel .

Awards

As part of the Dutch debut concerts 2005–2006 (a series of concerts in all the major concert halls in the Netherlands), van den Bercken won the audience award in 2006. She is also a prize winner in the Steinway Competition, the Princess Christina Competition and the Vriendenkrans Competition at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Web links

• Daria van den Bercken's website
• Trade hits the road! (accessed on April 24, 2012)
• Trade At Home! (accessed on April 24, 2012)