Gwendolyn Masin

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Gwendolyn Masin

Gwendolyn Masin (born November 17, 1977 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch violinist .

youth

Gwendolyn Masin was born in Amsterdam and comes from a traditional family of musicians from Central and Eastern Europe . Both parents are musicians too. Her mother, the Hungarian Maria Kelemen, is a violist and violinist. Masin's father, Ronald Masin, is a well-known concert violinist and violist of Dutch-Czech descent.

Inspired by her grandmother, director of a music school in Budapest , Gwendolyn Masin began her musical training at the age of three on the piano . At the age of five she took up the violin and made her public debut at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in the first year of teaching . Her family moved to Cape Town when she was six years old and settled in Dublin four years later . The first appearance before an Irish audience graduated Gwendolyn at the age of 11 years during a concert lecture at the National Concert Hall in Dublin and came in the same year live in the most popular TV show in Ireland , of The Late Late Show , on.

The woman, who is considered a charismatic conversation partner, has since been regularly invited to television and radio shows and has performed live in Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

education

Gwendolyn Masin received her first violin lessons in Coosje Wijzenbeek's class. After the family moved to South Africa, she continued her studies with her parents in Cape Town. At six, she became the youngest violinist to receive a Grade 6 diploma with honors from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music . Her extraordinary talent was recognized early on, which is why she took lessons from Professor Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam between 1990 and 1996 . She earned degrees and diplomas in four countries and her university studies were supervised by Igor Ozim , Ana Chumachenco , Zakhar Bron and Shmuel Ashkenasi .

Career

Gwendolyn Masin is characterized by an intensive, worldwide concert activity. She is on tour as a soloist with orchestras such as the Hungarian National Philharmonic, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestras of St. Petersburg and Belarus, the Bern Symphony Orchestra , the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, the Savaria Orchestra , and the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes. She is also regularly involved in performances and recordings by Ireland's most important orchestras such as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as well as the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and Portugal's Concerto Moderno.

The highlights of their chamber music performances include concerts with musicians such as the violinists Philippe Graffin, Jan Talich, Maxim Vengerov and Yuzuko Horigome, the violists Guy Ben-Ziony, Gérard Caussé, Lilli Maijala, Isabel Charisius and Roger Chase, the cellists Alexander Baillie and Pavel Gomziakov , Gavriel Lipkind , Martti Rousi, Alexander Rudin, Julian Steckel and István Várdai as well as the pianists Kit Armstrong , Julia Bartha, Finghin Collins, Robert Kulek, Peter Frankl , Aleksandar Madzar and György Sebök , the wind players Reto Bieri and Kaspar Zehnder , the conductor János Fürst and Gerhard Markson, the soprano Rachel Harnisch and the actor Hanns Zischler .

Gwendolyn Masin has premiered works by Raymond Deane, Urs Peter Schneider , Eric Sweeney , Martijn Voorvelt and John Buckley , among others . Buckley dedicated his first violin concerto to her. She played this at the premiere on September 21, 2013 at the Lucas Theater in Savannah, Georgia with the Savannah Philharmonic, conducted by Peter Shannon . The European premiere of Buckley's work took place in the National Concert Hall, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland on February 3rd, 2015. The performance was conducted by Gavin Maloney. The composer, clarinetist and jazz musician Don Li composed solo pieces and film music especially for her. The works were published on Tonus-Music Records.

Festivals and musical series

In 2004, Gwendolyn Masin launched the international and interdisciplinary series In Search of Lost Time , which was continued in 2010 with a commissioned work inspired by Paul Klee's writings. The composer was Thorsten Encke. In 2006, Masin founded the annual GAIA music festival , which is one of the most important festivals in Switzerland. In 2007 she became Artistic Director of the Carrick Water Music Festival in Ireland, a post she held for three years.

Since 2019 she has curated the “Cocktail for the Muses” program on behalf of Casino Bern . The aim of the series is to build a bridge between classical music and other styles.

Gwendolyn Masin at GAIA Music Festival

Educational activity

Gwendolyn Masin has taught violin and chamber music master classes not only across Europe, but also in Israel, the United States, Mexico and South Korea. She received her PhD on historical and modern violin pedagogy from Trinity College in Dublin in 2012 . Her award-winning book on violin pedagogy entitled Michaela's Music House, The Magic of the Violin was published in English by Müller & Schade in 2009 and is available worldwide. In 2018 the book was also published in German. At the time of publication, she was the youngest woman to have her own teaching method for the violin.

Gwendolyn Masin has been a violin teacher at the Haute école de musique de Genève since 2013 .

Awards and honors

Gwendolyn Masin has received numerous national and international awards in Ireland, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In addition, as the Dutch representative at the Global Stipends Awards, she received the International Music Award, was nominated for “The Outstanding Young Persons of Switzerland” in recognition of her achievements , and received support from numerous institutions such as the Swiss Society for the Promotion of the Performing Arts.

other activities

Charitable activity

In 2020 she launched the master class “The Exhale” - a retreat for musicians that offers a holistic approach to learning. Participants gain access to areas that are otherwise rarely found together in one place, including professional training, yoga, Alexander Technique , Feldenkrais , meditation, nutrition, music theory, pedagogy, analysis of contemporary music, composition, improvisation, moderation in the artistic field and psychological counseling. After the event had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Gwendolyn Masin developed an online format for musicians with the aim of addressing typical problem areas of professional musicians such as B. to work on recurring injuries caused by stress or stage fright within a protected room. Many of the events are free or funded through donations. Gwendolyn Masin's initiative was rewarded with more than 1,000 registrations for 114 events within the first two weeks.

instrument

Gwendolyn Masin plays a Florentine violin made by Lorenzo Carcassi in 1761.

Discography

- 15 Squared - Don Li (2006)
- GAIA Music Festival 2009 (2009)
- GAIA Music Festival 2013 (2013)
- Eugéne Ysaÿe Sonata No. 3 in D Minor Ballade (2016)
- ORIGIN (2016)
- ORIGIN (2016) (Vinyl)
- ZuekunftsNostalgie - Oli Kehrli (2016)
- GAIA Music Festival 2016 (2016)
- ORIGIN Edition Deluxe (2017)
- FLAME (2017)
- TROIS (2018)

bibliography

  • Michaelas Musikhaus, The Magic of the Violin 1, Lessons 1-7 (Müller & Schade, 2018) ISBN 978-3-905760-12-5 , ISMN M-50023-553-8 ;
  • Michaelas Musikhaus, The Magic of the Violin 1, Lessons 8-16 (Müller & Schade, 2018) ISBN 978-3-905760-13-2 , ISMN M-50023-578-1 ;
  • Michaelas Musikhaus, The Magic of the Violin 1, Lessons 17-24 (Müller & Schade, 2018) ISBN 978-3-905760-14-9 , ISMN M-50023-579-8 ;
  • Michaelas Musikhaus, The Magic of the Violin - booklet with 16-page piano supplement (Müller & Schade, 2018) ISMN M-50023-811-9 ;
  • Michaela's Music House, The Magic of the Violin (Müller & Schade, 2009) ISBN 978-3-905760-04-0 , ISMN M-50023-448-7.
  • Violin Teaching in the New Millennium: In Search of the Lost Instructions of Great Masters - an Examination of Similarities and Differences Between Schools of Playing and How These Have Evolved, or Remembering the Future of Violin Performance (Trinity College Dublin, 2012), title of PhD thesis.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gwendolyn Masin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.gaia-festival.com/downloads/GalaSchweiz_2014_34_12_GwendolynMasin.pdf
  2. http://www.gaia-festival.com/downloads/05_GAIA_ENSUITE_2011.pdf
  3. https://www.casinobern.ch/programm/cocktail-fuer-die-musen-4/
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  5. http://www.the-exhale.com
  6. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/64557