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 CARLA LEURSAmsterdam, NetherlandsViolinist.com blog: http://www.violinist.com/blog/Carla Personal website: http://www.carlaleurs.com/ CARLA joined Violinist.com before July 22, 2002 The Dutch virtuoso Carla Leurs began her violin studies at the age of 6. One year later, she was invited to perform for the Queen of the Netherlands in a concert broadcasted on national televison. Ms. Leurs entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague at the age of 14 and furthered her musical education at the Musikakademie Basel and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Untill 2005 she was enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music, as a student of Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein. Recently, Ms. Leurs was awarded the first prize at the International “Jean Francaix Competition” in Paris. She won both the First Prize and the coveted Audience Award at the Tibor Varga International Competition in Sion, Switzerland in 2001. Other notable awards include prizes at “Isang Yun” Gyeongnam Competition in South Korea, the Nuri Iyicil International Violin Competition, The American String Teachers Competition, the Dutch National Violin Competition and the Juilliard Mozart Concerto Competition prize that culminated in her New York debut at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Symphony,. Ms. Leurs has enjoyed a great deal of exposure in the solo sphere as a result of her successes at competitions. After winning the national edition of the Princess Christina Competition in 1993, she was invited to make her debut with the Netherlands Youth Orchestra. Since then she has performed with professional orchestras throughout Europe, Russia, Asia and the US, working with conductors including Carlos Kalmar, Vassily Sinaisky and Andras Ligeti. Carla Leurs has performed at many of the world’s leading music festivals including Verbier (Switzerland), the Geneva Summer Festival, the Tibor Varga Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Sakharov Festival (Russia) as well as the first “Perlman Chamber Music Program” in New York. Ms. Leurs has performed in the “Artist International Debut Series” in Carnegie Hall, as well as the “New Masters on Tour” Series in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tallinn, Estonia. She appears regularly at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. This past season Ms. Leurs served as First Concertmaster of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic under the direction of Jaap van Zweden. She also appearded as concertmaster with the Britten-Pears Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago de Chile, and Holland Symfonia. The outstanding instruments being used by Carla is a violin of Nicholas Lupot of Paris (1808) on loan from the National Musical Instrument Foundation in Amsterdam. E-mail: Registered users may send a message to CARLA LEURS from this page. If you have already registered, please log in.
Schools:Cleveland Institute of MusicThe Juilliard School Koninklijk Conservatorium Teachers:Itzhak Perlman & Donald WeilersteinDavid Updegraff & David Ceronr Jaring Walta & Qui van Woerdekom Coosje Wijzenbeek & Stefan Muhmenthaler Orchestras:Radio Kamer filharmonie 1st ConcertmasterOrquestra Filharmonica de Santiago Guest Concertmaster Britten Pears Orchestra Concertmaster Amsterdam Sinfonietta |
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