Gwendolyn Masin

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

Youth

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

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

The current as a charismatic conversationalist woman has since been regularly invited on television and radio shows and came to live in Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Training

Gwendolyn got her first violin lessons in the class of Coosje Wijzenbeek. Due to the move of the family to South Africa, she continued her studies with her parents in Cape Town. At six years old she was the youngest violinist who got a grade 6 Diploma with honors from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Her exceptional talent was recognized early on, so she took with Professor Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam between 1990 and 1996 classes. She earned degrees and diplomas in four countries and their university studies were supervised by Professor Igor Ozim, Professor Ana Chumachenco, Professor Zakhar Bron and Professor Shmuel Ashkenazi.

Career

Gwendolyn is characterized by an intense, world-wide concert activity. It is available as a soloist with orchestras such as the Hungarian National Philharmonic, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestras of St. Petersburg and Belarus, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra and the Savaria Orchestra on tour. In addition, she contributes regularly to performances and recordings of Ireland's most important orchestras such as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra National Youth Orchestra of Irelandund Portugal Concerto Moderno.

Among the highlights of her chamber music performances include concerts with musicians such as the violinist Yuzuko Horigome, violist Isabel Charisius and Roger Chase, the cellist Alexander Baillie, Pavel Gomziakov, Gavriel Lipkind, Martti Rousi, Alexander Rudin and Julian Steckel and the pianist Julia Bartha, Finghin Collins Robert Kulek, Peter Frankl, Aleksandar Madzar and György Sebök, the conductor Janos Fürst and Gerhard Markson and the actor Hanns Hisser.

Gwendolyn has premiered works by Raymond Deane, Urs Peter Schneider, Eric Sweeney, Martijn Voorvelt and John Buckley. Buckley dedicated his first violin concerto. This she played in the first performance on 21 September 2013 by Lucas Theatre in Savannah, Georgia with the Savannah Philharmonic, conducted by Peter Shannon. The composer, clarinetist and jazz musician Don Li composing both solo pieces and film music especially for them. The works were published by Tonus- Music Records.

Gwendolyn has been teaching since September 2013 violin at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève in Switzerland.

Festivals and music series

In 2004, Gwendolyn called the international and interdisciplinary series In Search of Lost Time to life, which was continued in 2010 with a design inspired by Paul Klee's writings commissioned work. Composer was Thorsten Encke. In 2006, Masin the annual GAIA Chamber Music Festival, which is now regarded as 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.

Educational activities

Gwendolyn Masin already taught throughout Europe in violin and chamber music master classes. At Trinity College in Dublin in 2012, she received her PhD on historical and modern violin pedagogy. Your award-winning book about violin teaching titled Michaela 's Music House, The Magic of the Violin was published by Müller & Schade 2009 and is available worldwide. In the publication, she was the youngest woman with its own teaching method for the violin.

Awards and Honors

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

Instrument

Gwendolyn plays on a violin Florentine, which was made ​​in 1761 by Lorenzo Carcassi.

Bibliography

  • Michaela 's Music House, The Magic of the Violin (Müller & Schade, 2009) ISBN 978-3-905760-04-0, ISMN M- 50023-448 - seventh
  • Violin Teaching in the New Millennium: In Search of the Lost Instructions of Great Masters - on Similarities and Differences Between Examination of Schools of Playing and How These Have Evolved, or Remembering the Future of Violin Performance ( Trinity College Dublin, 2012), title of the PhD thesis.

Article

  • Michaela 's Music House - Schott Music Education Online, February 2010.
  • Michaela 's Music House Wins IDEA Grand Prix - November 2009.
  • Michaela 's Music House - The Irish Times Music in the Classroom, 17/11/2009. (PDF)
  • Gwendolyn adds yet another string to her bow - Irish Independent, 1/11/2009.
  • Young course for the very young - Swiss music newspaper, November 2009 issue ( [ http://www.michaelasmusichouse.com/media/Schweizer_Musikzeitung_November_09.pdf PDF).
  • A Question of Culture - Irish Independent, 10/10/2009 (PDF).
  • The Art of Making Music Fun - The Irish Times, 29/07/2009.
  • Classical Notes - The Sunday Business Post, 26/07/2009.
  • ARCO Book Review (dutch) - ARCO Magazine, Issue 3 2009 (PDF).
  • Peeling the parameter of the Grand Delusion - The Irish Times, 25/09/2004.
  • The exceptional talent - Berner Zeitung, 23/03/2002.

Secondary literature

  • B. Lüthi: ". The Approach " Michaela 's Music House, The Magic of the Violin - July 2009.
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