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6th Amsterdam Viola Festival & 5th National Viola CompetitionProgram 15-19 February 2017

Amsterdam Viola Festival & National Viola CompetitionWe are very pleased to welcome you to this special viola event. February is once again dominated by the Amsterdam Viola Festival & National Viola Competition at the Conser-vatorium van Amsterdam (CvA). International guests from different countries share their expertise and bring allure to our festival. Colleagues from the Conservatorium van Am-sterdam, the major Dutch orchestra and ensembles play for us and with us. Big names from the viola world will give masterclasses and concerts during the Viola Festival and take place as jury members at the National Viola Competition.

FestivalSpecial guests are Nobuko Imai, Wenting Kang and Oene van Geel. On a daily basis there are master classes, concerts and classes given by among others: Marjolein Dispa, Jürgen Kussmaul, Sven Arne Tepl, Richard Wolfe and Francien Schatborn. The highlight of the festival is the event on February 18 from 16.30 in Splendor: the program includes a lecture by violamaker Jan van der Elst, performances by participants from the Viola Competition, a concert by young viola talents between 7 and 17 years and the result of an improvisation workshop by Oene van Geel. Early Saturday afternoon, the youngest viola talents from all over the Netherlands will be playing during a workshop with Judith Wijzenbeek. This festival connects all ages! Our festival includes a ‘Mozart Marathon’ of all Mozart quintets on Saturday. Don’t miss this special event!

CompetitionThe Viola Competition is open to participants with the Dutch nationality or living in the Netherlands (including students from abroad who study at a Dutch institution). The age limit is 33 years. The finale takes place on 19 February at 14.00 in the Sweelinckzaal. Previous winners are: Armen Nazarian (2015), Marc Sabbah (2013), Anna-Magdalena Den Herder (2011) and Saeko Oguma (2009). The National Viola Competition will take place for the fifth time. Eighteen talented young violists have been admitted and may appear before an international jury.

To all guests, colleagues and partners who have supported us, and especially to our audi-ence many thanks for your interest in the VIOLA and this important platform… Let’s start and celebrate the viola! Musical greetings, The viola section Conservatorium van AmsterdamFrancien Schatborn (coordinator), Sven Arne Tepl, Marjolein Dispa, Richard Wolfe, Judith Wijzenbeek (young talent)

Artistic coordinator: Francien Schatborn francien.schatborn@gmail.comProducers: Marianne Berenschot and Clara Brons cva-projectbureauklassiek.nl

WEDNESDAY February 15 Conservatorium

17.00 warming up concours room 4.06/4.08

19.00-22.00 Competition 1st round Sweelinckzaal - 6 participants 19.00-19.25 Carla Regio19.25-19.50 Evgeniya Peschanskaya19.50-20.15 Jose Nunes

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20.30-20.55 Hessel Moeselaar20.55-21.20 Ursula Skaug21.20-21.45 Martin Moriarty

Repertoire 1st Round: 16-2-2017 • one of the Mozart duos for violin and viola, KV 423 or 424, first movement, no repeats. • solo work of Oene van Geel, Part 1 Skip Count Sweet Miles Part 2: Gesualdo’s Bovenkamer

• Enescu Concert piece

THURSDAY February 16 Conservatorium

09.00 warming up competition room 4.01/4.32

10.00-17.00 Competition 1st round - 12 participants Sweelinckzaal

10.00-10.25 Lara Albasano10.25-10.50 Kellen McDaniel10.50-12.15 Kardelen Buruk12.15-12.40 Lotus de Vries

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13.25-13.50 Esther Fernandez Olalla13.50-14.15 Sophie Vroegop14.15-14.40 William Murray14.40-15.05 Konoe Takehiro

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15.20-15.45 Hannah Shaw 15.45-16.10 Michiel Wittink16.10-16.35 Joosep Ahun16.35-17.00 Olga Kowalczyk

Repertoire 1st Round: 16-2-2017 • one of the Mozart duos for violin and viola, KV 423 or 424, first movement, no repeats. • solo work of Oene van Geel, Part 1 Skip Count Sweet Miles Part 2: Gesualdo’s Bovenkamer • Enescu Concert piece

09.30-14.00 Masterclass Nobuko Imai room 4.41

11.00-17.00 Masterclass Sven Tepl Theaterzaal

15.30-19.00 Masterclass Nobuko Imai & Wenting Kang Bernard Bartok duo’s Haitinkzaal 17.00-19.00 Open rehearsal Oene van Geel viola concert and Sweelinckzaal teachers concert

THURSDAY February 16 Conservatorium

19.30 Oene van Geel & Teachers Concert Sweelinckzaal

Oene van Geel violaconcerto with ensemble CvA, soloist Annemarie Hensens

four movements

Helga Korbar, Maren Bosma (violin) Sara Novoselic (cello) Mirna Ackers (fl ute) Gema Lara Ruana (oboe/english horn) Francisco Ruiz (clarinet) Marjolein Schipper (bass clarinet) Aideen Copeland (piano) Alberto Rodriguez Rodriguez (percussion) and Oene van Geel (cajon)

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JS. Bach, 5 Inventionen: C major, C minor, E major, D minor and F major. Marjolein Dispa and Richard Wolfe (viola) Schumann - So war die Sonne scheinet - Frühlingslied -An den Abendstern - Mailied Francien Schatborn and Marjolein Dispa (viola) with Daniel Kramer (piano) Joel Hoffman. “...the fi rst time and the last” (2009, rev.2015) Richard Wolfe, Judith Wijzenbeek, Marjolein Dispa and Francien Schatborn (viola) York Bowen - Fantasie for Four Violas Francien Schatborn, Richard Wolfe, Marjolein Dispa and Judith Wijzenbeek (viola) Scarlatti - Sonata in F for 4 Violas (L.345) -Allegro con brio Nobuko Imai, Francien Schatborn, Marjolein Dispa and Richard Wolfe (viola)

FRIDAY February 17 Conservatorium

09.00 warming up competition room 4.01/4.31

09.00-11.30 warming up competition Bernard Haitinkzaal

09.30-11.30 Masterclass Marjolein Dispa room 4.05

09.30-11.30 Masterclass Francien Schatborn room 4.08

09.30-11.30 Masterclass Richard Wolfe room 4.34

10.00-17.00 Masterclass Sven Arne Tepl room 4.38

12.30-17.00 Masterclass Wenting Kang room 4.08

11.30-16.50 Competition 2nd round - 8 participants Bernard t.b.a. Haitinkzaal

Repertoire 2nd Round: 17-2-2017 30-35 minutes of music, combining (movements from) one of the following sonatas, and (movements from) one of the following 20th century music pieces for solo viola. - choose (movements) from one of the following sonatas: • Martinu, 1st sonata • Bax, sonata • Röntgen, sonata in c • Milhaud, 2nd sonata • Koechlin, sonata • Badings, sonata

• De Cruck, sonata

- choose (movements) from one of the following 20th century solo pieces: • Hindemith, solo sonatas • Ligeti, solo sonata • Reger, solo suites • Britten, three suites for solo viola, transcription from the cello by Nobuko Imai (Faber music) • Stravinsky, élégie

• Penderecki, cadenza

18.00-19.30 Open rehearsal for Splendor Concert with Sweelinckzaal conductor Jürgen Kussmaul Mozart – parts of The Magic Flute

20:00 Concert Nobuko Imai & Wenting Kang Bernard Haitinkzaal Ligeti Sonate for Viola Solo Wenting Kang 1. Hora lunga 2. Loop 3. Facsar Brahms Sonata in e-minor for violoncello and piano Nobuko Imai and Martijn Willers, piano -Allegro non troppo -Allegretto quasi Menuetto -Allegro

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Selection from Bartok 44 duos for two violins Nobuko Imai and Wenting Kang No. 44, 19, 16, 28, 43, 36, 21, 42, 7, 25, 33, 4, 34, 1, 8, 6, 9

No. 44 closing with all students of the masterclass on Thursday

SATURDAY February 18 Conservatorium

09.00-10.30 Warming up Mozart Quintets Sweelinckzaal

10.00-15.00 Young Talent Masterclass Judith Wijzenbeek room 4.05/4.07/4.09

11.00-13.00 Masterclass Improvisatie Oene van Geel Bernard Haitinkzaal

11.00-15.00 Masterclass Jürgen Kussmaul room 7.03

11.00-14.00 Mozart Marathon Sweelinckzaal

Mozart Quintet No. 6 in E-fl at major - 1.Allegro di molto II. Andante III. Menuetto - Allegretto – Trio IV. Allegro Cordelia Paw, Richard Wolfe (violin) William Murray, Asdis Valdimarsdottir (viola) and Mick Stirling (cello) Mozart Quintet No. 5 in D major - I. Larghetto - Allegro - Larghetto - Primo Tempo II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Allegro DOSTOYEVSKI QUARTET Charlotte Basalo Vázquez, Julia Kleinsmann (violin) Lisa Eggen, Francien Schatborn (viola) and Emma Kroon (cello) Mozart Quintet No 2 in c minor - I. Allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto in canone-trio in canone al roverscio IV. Allegro Anna Cikste, Richard Wolfe (violin) Laura Hovestad, Jurriaan Klapwijk (viola) and Madara Fogelmane (cello) -break-

13.00 Mozart Quintet No. 3 in C Major - 1.Allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto: Allegro VI. Allegro CANTO QUARTET Annet Verboom, Guillem Cabre Salagre (violin) Carlos Delgado Antequera, Marjolein Dispa (viola) and Teodora Nedyalkova (cello) Mozart Quintet No.1 in B-fl at major - I.Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Menuetto ma allegretto VI. Allegro CHENG QUARTET Hui-Wen Cheng, Wan-Ru Cheng (violin) Richard Wolfe, Shih-Hsien Tsai (viola) and Sheng-Chiun Lin (cello)

SATURDAY February 18 Splendor

16.30 Lecture Jan van der Elst Small hall How to keep your instrument in order (English spoken)

17.15 New year’s reception & buffet Foyer Dutch Viola Society

18:30 Viola Pitch Dutch Viola Society Foyer

19.00 Concert Young Talent Small hall talent between 7 and 17 years old

19.00 Viola Lounge Attic Relax concert with teachers and students of CvA

20.30 “Bonte Avond” Attic

Aram Kaciaturian - Andantino for 3 violas Liselot Blomaard, Rita Proença and Lotte Grotholt Bach Partita in g-moll für Flöte solo Saeko Oguma Allemande – Courrente – Sarabande -Bourrée Anglaise Best performance Mozart duo competition 1st round Best performance new work Oene van Geel competition 1st round Part 1 Skip Count Sweet Miles Part 2: Gesualdo’s Bovenkamer Benjamin Dale - Introduction& Andante for 6 Violas opus 5 Lisa Eggen, Carlos Delgado Antequera, Laura Hovestadt, Annemarie Hensens, Blanca Sanchez and Floris Faber

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Arie van Hoek - Divertimento for 8 violas (world premiere) Largo - Allegro – Largo, Largo maestoso, Scherzando, Largo, Presto Violaclass Rotterdam: Karin Dolman, Ulla Thorsteinsdottir, Esther Fernandez, Marta Ocette Montoro, Raquel Sanchez Gonzalez, Rayen Estraviz, Francesca Wiersma and Stefano Sancassan Presentation/workshop improvisation Oene van Geel Mozart - Fragments from the Magic Flute, arranged for 4 Violas, conducted by Jürgen Kussmaul Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja, Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön, Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Marsch der Priester, Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen, Pa-Pa-Pa Performed by all the teachers and students of the viola department CvA

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Foyer

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Allemande – Courrente – Sarabande -Bourrée Anglaise

Best performance new work Oene van Geel competition 1st round Benjamin Dale - Introduction& Andante for 6 Violas opus 5 Annemarie Hensens, Blanca Sanchez and Floris Faber

SUNDAY February 19 Conservatorium

09.00 warming up competition room 4.01/4.31

09.00-12.00 warming up competition Bernard Haitinkzaal

12.00 Teachers Lunch Concert Sweelinckzaal

Telemann Concerto no.3 for 4 violas Grave – Allegro - Largo e staccato - Allegro Marjolein Dispa, Francien Schatborn, Richard Wolfe and Jürgen Kussmaul (viola) Mozart string quintet g-minor KV 516 Allegro - menuetto, allegretto, trio - adagio, ma non troppo - adagio - allegro Peter Brunt, Emma Rose Rooyakkers (violin) Richard Wolfe, Marjolein Dispa (viola) and Michel Dispa (cello)

14.00 Competition FINAL - 3 participants Bernard Haitinkzaal Repertoire 3rd Round: 19-2-2017 • Enescu Concert piece • 1st movement of: Bartók or Walton Viola Concertos,

or Hindemith Schwanendreher.

16.00 Results Bernard Haitinkzaal

16.30 Drinks mezzo/kantine

Jury

Roland Kieft, chairman, (1960) is a Dutch conductor and director of the Foundation for Broadcast Music (Stichting Omroep Muziek) in Hilversum. Previously, he was director of the Hague Philharmonic and presenter and program maker at AVRO Classic. Kieft grew up in a musical family: both his parents played in the Brabants Orkest. He initially studied cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Later on he switched to conducting at the Utrecht Conservatory and at Tanglewood (USA), where he took classes with Leonard Bernstein. Kieft has stood for nearly all professional

symphony orchestras in the Netherlands, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residence Orchestra. He also conducted performances with Opera Forum (now the National Touring Opera) and at major Dutch ballet companies. Kieft was also active abroad, among others at the Minnesota Orchestra, the Orchestra of Radio France and the radio orchestras of East Berlin and St. Petersburg. He has conducted in almost all European countries and in Africa, Japan and the United States.Additionally Kieft was active in the Netherlands as a conductor of a number of youth and student orchestras, the Nijmegen Strijkersensemble, Hofstads Youth, Dutch Youth String Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, the Dutch Student Orchestra (four times in 1987, 1993, 1995 and 2000) and the UvA orchestra J. Pzn Sweelinck. In recent years, Kieft was creator and editor at Radio 4 AVRO. He interviewed many famous musicians over the years: conductor Nicolaus Harnoncourt, cellist Mischa Maisky, violinist Itzhak Perlman and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.

Jürgen Kussmaul (1944) was born into a well-known family of musicians and studied fi rst violin with his father, later viola in Mannheim. After studying at the Hochschule Mannheim Jürgen Kussmaul received his fi rst appointment as solo violist in Heidelberg. A few years later he became solo violist with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne and taught at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he came into contact with the Dutch baroque scene. Since 1970, he plays with Vera Beth and Anner Bylsma in the ensemble L’Archibudelli. In 1979 he became a lecturer at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule and

in 1991 he founded the Robert Schumann Chamber Orchestra on got the Art Prize of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.

As a guest conductor Jürgen Kussmaul also leads the chamber orchestra Amsterdam Mozart Players. In addition, he conducted at the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra B-A-C-H of Ekaterinburg and he performed at various festivals in Europe. He also led the Gustav Mahler Academy Orchestra of the Eighth Symphony of Anton Bruckner and the Tokyo Classical Players with a Beethoven program during a tour of Japan. As a chamber musician and soloist he has given concerts all over the world and made many CD recordings. He is the artistic director of the Claudio Abbado founded Gustav Mahler Academy in Bolzano.

Eric van der Wel studied viola with Ervin Schiffer at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Tilburg. He graduated in solo performance. For a couple of years Eric van der Wel was Ervin Schiffer’s teaching assistant at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.

From 1983 till 1990 Eric van der Wel was co-principal viola of the Residentie Orkest (The Hague Philharmonic); from 1990 till 2016 he was a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. As a violist he played – and still plays –in various

chamber music ensembles with members of the RCO.

Eric van der Wel is member of the Trio Amsterdam-Berlin, a string trio which recently recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the Lobkowitz Quartet.

Hannah Strijbos (1989) performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and North America. Born in Lelystad, the Netherlands, Hannah received her fi rst violin lessons at the age of eight. Until she was 18 she studied at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Coosje Wijzenbeek, who encouraged her to pick up the viola. She then started her undergraduate studies on the viola at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Marjolein Dispa, also receiving regular coachings with Nobuko Imai and Jürgen Kussmaul.

She complemented her undergraduate studies with an Erasmus exchange at de Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

In December 2011 she concluded her undergraduate studies with the highest distinction. Hannah is currently based in London. She recently fi nished her postgraduate degree with fi rst class honours at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Takeno and currently holds a Junior Fellowship. As a passionate chamber musician, Hannah has played with musicians such as Colin Carr, Janine Jansen, Liza Ferschtman, Godfried Hoogeveen and Nobuko Imai. She is a member of the Berlin based Jacques Thibaud Trio, with which she performs throughout Europe and the United States and records on the German label Audite. She also recently formed the London based Werther Ensemble, a fl exible group based around a piano quartet. She was a member of the Dutch Allegra Quartet for eight years, with which she performed throughout Europe including several recitals in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Hannah has received several prizes at both national and international competitions, including the Dutch National Viola Competition (Amsterdam, 2011), The Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition (2005 and 2007) and the Iordens Viooldagen (The Hague, 2004). Studies and masterclasses were made possible by awards and scholarships from the Fonds Podiumkunsten (Foundation of the Performing Arts), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Mengelberg Foundation, Niemeijer Foundation and the Han Lammers Foundation.

Biographies teachers masterclasses

Nobuko Imai (1943) is considered one of the leading contemporary viola players. After completing her studies at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan, Yale University and the Juilliard School in the USA, she won top awards at the international competitions in Munich and Geneva. She combines her international solo career - which has brought her together with orchestras of worldwide renown - with numerous performances as a chamber musician. Her chamber music partners include Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo

Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman. Nobuko Imai was formerly a member of the famous Vermeer Quartet and is today a member of the Michelangelo String Quartet. She taught as a Professor at the Conservatories in Detmold and in Amsterdam for many years. Currently, she teaches at the Conservatory in Geneva and is Artistic Adviser at Casals Hall in Tokyo, where she has spent many years in charge of the festival “Viola Space”.

Wenting Kang (1979) was born in Zhuzhou, China. She started playing the violin at the age of six but changed to the viola in 2003. Following her studies in Shanghai and Beijing she moved to Boston to study with Garth Knox and Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music. She also attended masterclasses given by Matthias Buchholz, Pinchas Zukermann, Roberto Diaz, Tabea Zimmermann and Bruno Pasquier. The Chinese violist has won several competition prizes. In 2010 she was awarded third prize in

the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. One year later she was presented with the Robertson Prize at the renowned Primrose International Viola Competition. In 2012 she also won fi rst prize in the Tokyo International Viola Competition. Since 2004 Wenting Kang has given regular concert performances. She has played in major concert halls in Asia, America and Europe and has participated in the Morningside Bridge International Music Festival in Canada, the Orchestra Academy of Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Verbier Festival Academy and the Monadnock Festival, the Steans Institute of Ravinia Festival and the Yellow Barn Festival in the USA. These festivals gave her opportunities to play chamber music with artists such as Donald Palma, Kim Kashkashian, Alan Kay and Paul Katz. In 2014 she took part in Chamber Music Connects the World. Since 2013 Wenting Kang has been studying as a Young Soloist at Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai.

Violist / composer Oene van Geel (1973) is a true adventurer in music. Infl uenced by jazz, chamber music, Indian music and free improvisation, he has applied his virtuoso improvisation skills and his composition talents to a wide scope of musical activities. He toured in Europe, India, Japan, the USA and Canada. As a player he is currently active with: Zapp4, Estafest, The Nordanians, Haanstra & van Geel and a duo with Matteo Mijderwijk. Besides these groups he is regularly invited as an

improvising guest soloist. He has won the Boy Edgar Award (2013), the Sena Performers Toonzetters Award (2012, with Zapp4) Kersjes Award (2005, with Zapp4), the Deloitte Jazz Award (2002), Dutch Jazz Competition (2001) and the Jur Naessens Music Award (2000).

Oene composes for his own groups, but also writes for other ensembles / soloists. In 2015 Oene wrote his fi rst viola concerto for Emlyn Stam and the New European Ensemble (premiered 18 December, Bimhuis, Amsterdam). Oene often gets commissions by festivals such as the Cello Biennale Amsterdam (2016 and 2008) and North Sea Jazz Festival. As a player and composer he was involved in theatre productions and he has a special interest in dance. At this moment he is scoring a documentary for Lataster fi lms (to be premiered October 2016). In 2017 Oene and composer Florian Magnus Maier will compose a new opera for the Dutch National Opera.

Francien Schatborn (1969) graduated in 1995 with honors from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where she studied with Jürgen Kussmaul. She attended master classes with, among others, Tabea Zimmermann, Fyodor Drushinin and Kim Kashkashian, and chamber music with Menahem Pressler and Istvan Párkányi. In 1994 she received the Silver Laurel of the Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with pianist Jeannette Koekkoek, with whom she forms a duo and gives recitals in the Netherlands, Italy, France and the US.

Their fi rst duo CD with romantic Dutch music, was published by Etcetera in December, 2003. In 2006 their second album was released, including all viola sonatas by Rontgen. Both CDs were very well received.

Francien Schatborn has been solo violist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra since 1995. In addition, she performed with Dutch Piano Quartet and giving regular concerts in Europe, USA, South America and Asia, including the Music Society led by Christiaan Bor. As a soloist she worked with orchestras such as the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the North Holland Philharmonic Orhest, Holland Symphonia, Dutch Student Orchestra and her own band, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently, Francien is also teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Judith Wijzenbeek (1983) studied viola with Marjolein Dispa and Nobuka Imai at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and obtained her bachelor’s degree with distinction in 2007. She continued her study with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hans Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In 2009 she obtained her masters degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Judith has also succesfully completed the Academy of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2008-2009. She plays in several chamber music ensembles, such as Ensemble Galante

and the Sequenza String Trio, with which she regularly performs home and abroad. She has been a viola teacher at the Sweelinck Academy of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2008.

Richard Wolfe (1953) was born in New York and pursued his violin studies with Aaron Shapinsky and Dorothy Delay and graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he studied with Walter Levin (La Salle Quartet). He then spent fi ve years in Israel as a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and during that period became interested in the viola. He settled in the Netherlands in 1983 and has been principal viola soloist for the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra since 1986. He often performs as a soloist with this orchestra. He is also very fond of chamber music and is a member of the Sergiu Luca Ensem-

ble Music in Context in the US, the Explorations Ensemble in Belgium and other ensem-bles in the Netherlands. In addition to his teaching activities at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, he teaches at festivals in Palma de Mallorca and Fontainebleau, France.

Marjolein Dispa (1962) studied with Ervin Schiffer and graduated cum laude from the Royal University of Music in Brussels. She studied chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Additionally, Marjolein Dispa took part in courses with Kim Kaskashian, André Gertler, Isaac Stern, Wolfgang Jahn and chamber music with the Bartók Quartet and the Trio de Prague. Marjolein was a prize winner at the Charles Hennen Chamber Music Competition with the string trio Boussu. She was also a prize

winner at the Internationale Musiktage Goslar and a prize winner at the Dutch National Impresario Competition with the NOG-Ensemble.She performs regularly as a chamber musician and soloist throughout Europe as well as in Russia, Israel and Australia and she is a regular guest at numerous international festivals. She has been the principal viola with the Swedish String Orchestra Camerata Roman for several years. At the same time, she plays in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. Remarkable are her recent concert tours based upon the solo-repertoire of Telemann and Bach. Besides numerous radio and television recordings, she has recorded CDs as a soloist performing chamber music by Mendels-sohn, Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Atterberg. Marjolein Dispa regularly gives master classes in Germany, Belgium, France and Switzerland. She is also a teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Sven Arne Tepl (1966) studied viola and chamber music at the conservatories of Detmold and Cologne with members of the Amadeus Quartet, Christoph Poppen and Nobuko Imai. In the United States he studied viola and chamber music in Hartford and New York with Lawrence Dutton and the Emerson String Quartet. From 1998-2006 he was a member of the Utrecht String Quartet and from 2000-2007 solo violist of Amsterdam Sinfonietta. With both ensembles he recorded several award winning CDs.

In addition to his work as guest principle with several international orchestras and his international chamber music career collaborating with musicians such as Paolo Giacometti, Dmitri Ferschtmann, Pauline Oostenrijk, Antje Weithaas, Christoph Richter, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Arno Bornkamp, the Emerson, Brodsky and Auryn Quartets, Sven taught at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and held a professorship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he worked as a conductor as well. He was artistic director of Holland Symfonia for three years and from 2009-2013 artistic director and board member of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and an external consultant for the Britten-Pears Programme in Aldeburgh, UK.Since 2006 Sven has been teaching viola and chamber music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is also advisor of the NMF, AFK and board member of the NJO, NNO and the Delft Chamber Music Festival. Sven is jury member of the Netherlands Music Prize. From 2013-2016 he was Vice-Principal / Director of Classical Music & Music in Education at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As of April 1st, 2016, he has been appointed Artistic Director of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague.

Ticket information

All activities at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam are free of charge, no reservation possible.

Splendor activities “Bonte Avond”: Pre-sale 12,50-, normal tickets 12,50-, membership Splendor 10,-, membership DVS, 10,- and CJP 10,-.

Splendor New Year’s reception & buffet Dutch Viola Society: Free for DVS membership, otherwise 5,-. (applications: mail@dutchviolasociety.nl)

Masterclasses paymentMasterclass: 40,- , and Bartok duo’s 75,- for external participants. To be paid in advance by bank transfer: Conservatorium van Amsterdam, IBAN: NL52RABO0309034426, BIC: RABONL2U. (please mention your name, which masterclass(es) and date(s)

LocationsConservatorium van Amsterdam Oosterdokskade 151, 1011 DL Amsterdam, 020 5277550 www.conservatoriumvanamsterdam.nl

Splendor Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116, 1011 LX Amsterdam, 020 845 3345 www.splendoramsterdam.com

Information deskFoyer Conservatorium van Amsterdam a.o.: detailed schedule masterclasses, schedule second round and fi nal competition, biographies & repertoire participants.

Route Conservatorium van Amsterdam > Splendor

Conditions viola competitionParticipants should have the Dutch nationality or should be living in the Netherlands (including students from abroad who study at a Dutch institution). Age limit is 33 years.

Participants competition

1. Lara Albasano (1996) Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA2 Imai/Dispa2. Jose Nunes (1996) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3 Imai/Schatborn3. Carla Regio (1989) Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA2 Wolfe/Tepl4. Evgeniya Peschanskaya (1991) Royal Conservatoire The Hague MA1 Zemtsov5. Ursula Skaug (1997) Royal Conservatoire The Hague BA2 Zemtsov6. Martin Moriarty (1994) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3 Imai/Dispa7. Hannah Shaw (1984) The Juilliard School MA 20088. Hessel Moesselaar (1995) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3 Dispa9. Konoe Takehiro (1997) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA1 Schatborn/Imai10. Olga Kowalczyk (1993) Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA1 Tepl 11. Lotus de Vries (1996) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3 Schatborn12. Esther Fernandez Ollala Rotterdam Codarts MA1 Dolman (1994)13. Michiel Wittink (1995) Conservatorium van Amsterdam BA3 Schatborn14. Sophie Vroegop (1989) Royal Conservatoire The Hague BA4 Zemtsov15. Joosep Ahun (1989) Royal Conservatoire The Hague MA2 Zemtsov16. William Murray (1985) Conservatorium van Amsterdam MA2 Imai17. Kellen McDaniel (1991) Royal Conservatoire The Hague MA2 Zemtsov18. Kardelen Buruk (1996) Royal Conservatoire The Hague BA3 Asdis Valdimorsdottir

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