a new violin...

August 16, 2006 at 6:23 PM

It has been a while. Mainly because I have been incredibly busy!
The beginning of May I was in the States to play some concerts, with the high point being the day after the last concert in Texas, where a violinist from the orchestra showed me the incredible nature in Texas, which was a nice break from hotelrooms!

In June I played solo in the Concertgebouw, which I ofcourse enjoyed every minute. It is still the most beautiful hall I know, even Carnegie can't quite compete with it, sorry folks!
I also had to look for a new appartment, and the day I signed my housing contract I also got an amazing violin from the Dutch music foundation; a beautiful Nicolas Lupot, of whom one says he was the Stradivarius of France. He is amazing and I enjoy learning all new aspects of sound. A new violin forces you to relook at your technique and conception of sound and I just love being on this new road. However, I hope to one day buy the violin I have been playing the past 10 years, I really am attached to her!

In July and the first week of August I was rehearsing and playing concerts at the Hortus Festival. On the old violin I put gut strings, which we played on. This is also a complete different experience, also gives you a new concept of sound. And I played some open air recitals. To round it up... I started last week again a project with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, with amazing repertoire: Beethoven Grosse Fuge and opus 135, Shostakovich Quartet and Octet, a piece by a Dutch composer for 4 stringquartets and more. Tomorrow we are off to Germany where we will be playing at the Schleswig Holstein Festival and next week again at the Concertgebouw. I love my life as a musician and the fact that I really get to do everything; solo, chambermusic, orchestra!

Vacation? Well, maybe later. For now I keep on enjoying myself working hard and having loads of fun!

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on August 16, 2006 at 11:29 PM

I'm glad that you're having fun and that your career is going well. What did you play solo at the Concertgebouw? That must have been a thrill.

From Pieter Viljoen
Posted on August 17, 2006 at 2:58 AM

Lupot, very nice. A lot of those are fantastic instruments. I hope you keep up with lots of solo work. Don't settle down in an orchestra just yet.

From Nicholas Tavani
Posted on August 17, 2006 at 5:20 AM

Carla,

Isn't the Grosse Fuge incredible? I also just performed it this summer. And the Shostakovich Octet - not played much, but exciting and energetic! I got to do it with a group last year at Encore. It's great that your career is going so well.

From Bram Heemskerk
Posted on August 18, 2006 at 10:37 AM

.."a piece by 'a Dutch composer' for 4 stringquartets"... . VAN BREE, VAN BREE, VAN BREE, VAN BREE, VAN BREE, VAN BREE, VAN BREE, VAN BREE. I hope now that readers of violinist.com don't forget the name of this composer, because his piece for 4 string quartets is a good piece. 2 amateurstringorchestra's in which I play also play this piece, but because there were 4 better second violinists I have not played the piece.
Again I heard this piece from a professional orchestra in Holland where they also played the world premiere of the violinconcerto of VAN BREE by Eva Koskinen. Earlier I wrote about it in my blog.

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