Monica Germino

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Monica Germino is an American and Dutch violinist.

Monica Germino with round arch

Germino spent her childhood in Virginia, USA. She studied at the Yale Conservatory and the New England Conservatory . In 1993 she received a scholarship to study music in the Netherlands, where she has lived since.

Monica Germino has performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), the Bang on a Can Marathon (NY) at the University of South Florida (USF), the New York Austrian Cultural Forum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall .

Germino cooperates with the sound artist ("electronic sound designer") Frank van der Weij . Both have commissioned new works for violin and electronic sounds, such as: B. by Julia Wolfe , Donnacha Dennehy , David Dramm, Arnoud Noordegraaf, Heiner Goebbels, Catherine Kontz, and Nick Williams.

Germino ordered a Violectra (electric violin) in 2003 . Several composers have written works for Germino and their Violectra, such as Robert Zuidam's new Requiem (2013), Renske Vrolijks “Violectra Concert” (2012) and David Dramm's “Fuzzbox Logic” (2010). Germino also performs with her group ELECTRA and with the Ensemble Electric Barbarian.

Germino works regularly with the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and the singer Cristina Zavalloni . In 2011 Andriessen composed a violin concerto for her entitled “La Girò”. In 2002 Andriessen wrote “La Passione”, a double concerto for Zavalloni and Germino. In 2009 the Boston Modern Orchestra Project released a CD with Andriessen's compositions entitled “La Passione”. Germino's performance of John Cage's Six Melodies also plays an inspiring role in Andriessen's opera “Writing to Vermeer”.

Germino plays a Joannes Baptista Ceruti violin on loan from the Elise Mathilde Foundation. It is also unusual that Germino sings and plays the violin simultaneously, sometimes with the round arch .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Corinna Fonseca-Wollheim: Monica Germino Puts Electronics and Violin Together, and Myriad Sounds Ensue . In: June 16, 2013 . New York Times.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Fleming, John: Get ready to get wild ... at a violin recital . Tampa Bay Times. February 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tampabay.com
  3. ↑ EXCLUSIVE: Monica Germino on New England Conservatory, 'RACHE' Murder Premiere and Why She's Finally Ready to Play Michael Gordon's 'INDUSTRY' . In: Music Times, LLC , CLASSICALITE, May 27, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2017. 
  4. ↑ Holden, Anthony: Now like a good tune . The Observer (London, UK). November 25, 2007. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Hewett, Ivan: Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music: Music Lives in Everything . The Telegraph (UK). November 19, 2007. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ CGNY: Violinist Monica Germino & sound engineer Frank van der Weij perform as part of the Bang on a Can Marathon . Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, Dutch Performing Arts Events. May 29, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b Deemer, R: Bang on a Can Marathon 2013 Live Blog . NEW MUSIC USA, NEW MUSIC BOX. June 16, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ a b Swed, Mark: Two Louis Andriessen premieres at Green Umbrella . LA Times. February 29, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  9. ↑ Deneuville, Thomas: Bang on a Can Marathon 2013 . I CARE IF YOU LISTEN magazine. June 26, 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  10. ^ A b Matthews, Peter: String Singers . Feast of Music. November 14, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  11. ^ Hughes, Roisin: Deviation . Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. November 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hcmf.co.uk
  12. ↑ Redactie: Monica Germino: wereldster op Provadja-podium, dan New York (Monica Germino: World star on stage at Provadja, then New York) . Noord Hollands Dagblad. October 18, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  13. ↑ Kozinn, Allan: What Do You Get When You Combine Minimalism With Complexity? . The New York Times. May 17, 2004. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  14. ^ Adlington, Robert: De Staat . Ashgate Pub Ltd, August 2004.
  15. ^ Davidson, Robert A .: Louis Andriessen & Orkest de Volharding: seeing is hearing . RealTime Arts magazine (AU). July 27, 2001. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  16. ↑ Trochimczyk, Maja: Music of Louis Andriessen . Routledge, August 2002 (accessed October 31, 2013).
  17. ↑ Frederik van Beuningen: 'Alleen geld voor jezelf is armoe' , De Dikke Blauwe. February 9, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017. 
personal data
SURNAME Germino, Monica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American and Dutch violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century