Lucy van Dael

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Lucy van Dael (* 1946 ) is a Dutch violinist.

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Music already played a dominant role in Lucy van Dael's family. Her grandfather was a pianist and organist with a penchant for the music of Gustav Mahler . Her parents gave her piano lessons from an early age. But her love was for early chamber music and the violin, which she had heard in concerts. She studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague . At her final exam she played the more modern works on a standard violin, but the required solo sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach on a baroque violin . After this examination, a prominent member of the jury said: "It's a shame that you are continuing to pursue the path of baroque interpretation, you are too great a talent."

In the early sixties she became the youngest member of the newly founded "Netherlands Chamber Orchestra" under Szymon Goldberg . After a year and a half, her orchestral colleague, cellist Jaap ter Linden and harpsichordist and organist Ton Koopman were looking for a violinist. It was the hour of birth of the “Musica da camera” ensemble. She also received invitations to make music with the married couple Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) and Marie Leonhardt , the latter already had extensive experience in historical performance practice on the baroque violin.

Further milestones were her acquaintance with Sigiswald Kuijken and his brothers Barthold Kuijken and Wieland Kuijken as well as with Frans Brüggen , with whom she founded the orchestra of the 18th century , of which she was concertmaster for eighteen years.

Van Dael taught at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and until 2011 at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam . She was visiting professor in Stanford, Berkeley, Tokyo and Sapporo, Basel, Melbourne, Oslo, Hamburg, London and Jakarta.

Numerous recordings accompany her long career. This includes the recordings of the sonatas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach and the sonatas by Marco Uccellini with Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) as well as one recording each of Italian and English sonatas with the ensemble “Bell'Arte Antiqua”.

Van Dael was married to Anner Bylsma .

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SURNAME Dael, Lucy van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946