Irina Simon-Renes
Romanian-born violinist Irina Simon-Renes studied in Berlin with Thomas Zehetmair, Christoph Poppen and Antje Weithaas. Her career as an orchestral violinist began in 1998 at the Akademie of the Staatskapelle Berlin. She then joined the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg as leader of the second violins and from 2001 she played in the same position with [...].
Korbinian Altenberger
Korbinian Altenberger, born in Munich, studied with Charles-André Linale and Donald Weilerstein in Cologne and Boston. In 2009 he received a master's degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he was a Dorothy Richard Starling student. Korbinian Altenberger has received a large number of awards and honors from international [...]
Marlene Dijkstra
Marlene Dijkstra has had violin lessons from Coosje Wijzenbeek and Veselina Manikova since the age of four and graduated with 10 cum laude from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in June 2021 where she studied with Vera Beths. She took master classes with Anner Bylsma, Liviu Prunaru and Philipe Graffin, among others, and participated in [...]
Coraline Groen
Coraline Groen, who participated in the Academy of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2018/2019, has been a member of the orchestra's second violin group since February 1, 2020. That same day she won the Oskar Back prize of the Netherlands Violin Competition. Previously she won first prizes at the Britten Violin Competition and at the regional finals of the Princess Christina Competition, and [...]
Marcel Sutedja
I am Marcel, 16 years old. Violin is my passion. Every time I play my violin I get heart happy. I study violin at the Young Talent department 'Jong KC' of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where I had lessons from Koosje van Haeringen from 2012 to 2017. Since 2017 I have been studying [...]
Michelle Kumara
As a three-year-old, Michelle already made it clear that she wanted to play the violin. A year later the first introduction to the violin was a fact during trial lessons at the CKC in Zoetermeer. Not long after, she began violin lessons with Serdar Erkmenis of violin school Leidschenveen in The Hague. At age nine, she was admitted to [...] as an external student.
Evy Hamers
Evy Hamers (b. 2005) is a young accomplished violinist. When she started playing the violin as a child, it soon became clear that the violin suited her very well. Now she studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Ilona Sie Dhian Ho. She is a prize winner of the Dutch Violin Competition and the Britten Violin Competition, among others. In addition to solo works [...]
Luca van der Waals
At the age of 5 Luca van der Waals started playing the violin in the PIVO class of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Now Luca is connected to the School for Young Talent in The Hague where she is being taught by violin teacher Kerstin Hoelen. Last January she participated in the Davina van Wely Concours where she won the [...]