Isabelle van Keulen

Isabelle van Keulen (born December 16, 1966 in Mijdrecht , Netherlands ) is a Dutch violinist and violist .

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She started playing the violin at the age of six. She began her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and later continued with Sándor Végh at the Salzburg Mozarteum . The central element of her work is chamber music and, last but not least, the interpretation of contemporary artists. Contemporary composers such as Theo Loevendie and Erkki-Sven Tüür wrote violin concertos for them.

In 1996 she founded the international chamber music festival in Delft in her home country . There she worked both as an interpreter and until 2006 as a director. She has given concerts with Leif Ove Andsnes , Håkan Hardenberger , Gidon Kremer , Heinrich Schiff and Thomas Adès , among others .

In 2011 she founded the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble together with the pianist Ulrike Payer, the bandoneonist Christian Gerber and her husband, the double bass player Rüdiger Ludwig, in order to perform Astor Piazzolla's compositions on international concert platforms, resulting in a CD / DVD / BluRay -Production of the Challenge Classics label and extensive concert activities in this genre as well. Since 2012 she has been teaching music for violin and viola as well as chamber music at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences .

At concerts around the globe she played among others with the orchestras of Berlin Philharmonic , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , Vienna Symphony Orchestra , Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , London Philharmonia Orchestra Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Basel Chamber Orchestra .

She has worked with conductors Mark Elder , Valery Gergiev , Neeme Järvi , Sir Neville Marriner , Sir Roger Norrington , Osmo Vänskä , Hugh Wolff and David Zinman .

CD (selection)

French Violin Sonatas Vol. 1 and 2, 1995
Alfred Schnittke Viola Concerto & Witold Lutosławski Chain II, Koch 1995
Classical music for millions - Mozart by Isabelle Van Keulen, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, 1997
Violin sonatas by Brahms, Dietrich and Clara and Robert Schumann, 1998
Eloquence - Mozart (violin concertos) by Isabelle Van Keulen, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra 1998
Erkki-Sven Tüür Violin Concerto, ECM 2003
Sergej Prokofiev - works for violin and piano, with Ronald Brautigam, Challenge, 2012
Tango! - Music by Astor Piazzolla, Challenge 2013
Ludwig van Beethoven - all violin sonatas with Hannes Minnaar, piano, Challenge, 2014
Grand Tango - music by Astor Piazzolla with the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble, Challenge, 2016
Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto, together with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Julian Steckel, violoncello and Stefan Vladar , piano and conductor, Capriccio 2016
Ángeles y Diablo - Music by Astor Piazzolla with the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble, Challenge, 2018
Sergej Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.1, Walton - Viola Concerto and Vaughan-Williams - “The Lark Ascending”, Andrew Manze, Kerri-Lynn Wilson and Andrew Litton, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Challenge 2018

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personal data
SURNAME	Keulen, Isabelle van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch violinist and violist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mijdrecht , Netherlands