Quirine Viersen

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Quirine Viersen (1988)

Quirine Viersen (* 1972 ) is a Dutch cellist . She is the sister of the violinist Saskia Viersen and the daughter of Yke Viersen, cellist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.

education

Viersen received her first lessons from her father, Yke Viersen. Then she studied cello at the Amsterdam Conservatory , initially with Jean Decroos and later with Dmitri Ferschtman. She completed her studies with Heinrich Schiff at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in 1997.

activities

solo

Viersen has been a soloist with all important Dutch symphony orchestras and with major international orchestras, including: Concertgebouw Orchestra with Herbert Blomstedt and Bernard Haitink, Hessisches Rundfunkorchester with Hugh Wolff, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergjev, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with Jean Fourmet , Vienna Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Georges Pehlivanian, Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen, Limburgs Symfonieorkest, Malmö Symfony Orchestra under the direction of Lawrence Renes, Orkest van het Oosten, the Hagen Orchester, Koninklijk Filharmonisch Orkest Vlaanderen de São José, Orquestra do Estonian Symphony Orchestra Paulo, Orquesta Nacional de México, Ulster Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Montgomery, Combattimento Consort with Jan Willem de Vriend. In 2006 Viersen played the cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach for the National Ballet performance with a new choreography by Krzysztof Pastor.

Chamber music

Viersen has been a guest at festivals: the Delft Chamber Music Festival, Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, the Mondseetage and the Salzburg Festival. Since 1996 she has formed a permanent duo with the pianist Silke Avenhaus. With her she has recorded several CDs with works by well-known and less well-known composers. She expanded the duo to a piano quartet with Benjamin Schmid and Hanna Weinmeister. The quartet performs in the hall of the Concertegebouw Orkest and Oosterpoort in Groningen.

CD recordings

Viersen also made recordings with the pianist Silke Avenhaus, with the Koninklijk Filharmonisch Orkest Vlaanderen (cello concert by Reinhold Glière) and the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam (cello concertos by Joseph Haydn).

Awards and honors

Viersen has won prizes at various international competitions: Rostropovitch Concours 1990 in Paris, International Celloo Competition 1991 in Helsinki. In 1994 she was the first Dutch woman to win a prize at the “Competition X” at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Viersen won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2000. This prize was associated with a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta during the Lucerne Festival 2000.

Current projects

In the current 2007/2008 season she plays with the Residentie Orkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orkest , C.Ph.E. Bach Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. She performs for chamber music with Severin von Eckardstein, Silke Avenhaus, Antje Weithaas and Peter Wispelwey.

instrument

Quirine Viersen plays on a cello by Joseph Guarnerius Filius Andreae from 1715, which was made available to her by the National Dutch Musical Instrument Foundation.

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personal data
SURNAME Viersen, Quirine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viersen, Kvirin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972