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Dutch violist Lotus de Vries is currently living in Berlin where she is pursuing her Masters degree at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” studying with Tabea Zimmermann and Florian Peelman. Prior to this she was a student of Ervin Schiffer during her pre-college music studies and continued her bachelor studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam with Francien Schatborn.
Festival appearances and academy invitations include Schleswig Holstein Festival, Gustav Mahler Academy, Musethica Israel, Mendelssohn Festival, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, European Chamber Music Academy, International Chamber Music Festival of Janine Jansen, Ponte Ulm, Festival Klassik Nahdran, Grandhôtel Chamber Sessions, String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam and the International Summer Academy Vienna. At these festivals she enjoyed masterclasses of world renowned musicians including Nobuko Imai, Antoine Tamestit, Hartmut Rohde, Máté Szücs, Tatjana Masurenko, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Stefan Metz, Eberhard Feltz and the Ysaÿe, Danel and Quiroga quartets. She performed alongside renowned musicians such as Lorenza Borani, Stefan Arzberger, Gertraud Fröschl, Johannes Meissl, Markus Schirmer, Carlo Colombo and Frank Lloyd.
She frequently gets invited as a guest player to the Camerata of the Concertgebouworkest, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. Having played under the batons of Bernard Haitink, Daniele Gatti, Lahav Shani, Pablo Heras Casado...
Lotus has been a recipient of multiple scholarships, such as the Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, the Müllerfonds and West Dean College. She is a laureate of the Princess Christina Competition (second prize, audience award) and received a special award during the Peter the Great Festival in 2017.
Lotus is currently a member of the Helikon Quartet with whom she has performed extensively in halls such as the Concertgebouw, Tivoli Vredenburg and Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. She has been broadcast multiple times with her quartet as well as solo on dutch national television and radio in shows like Podium Witteman and classical music channel Radio 4.
She has performed the Cecil Forsyth Viola Concerto as well as the unknown viola concerto by jewish composer Leo Smit with orchestra and will perform the latter again in December 2020.
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Debut CD 2021 - Helikon quartet
We are thrilled to announce our debut CD with 'Cobra Records' label.
The album is going to consist of two string quartets by Maarten ter Horst, a promising young composer with a strong personal message and gift for compositional storytelling.
We are excited to enrich the quartet repertoire with two new Dutch string quartets and can't wait for you all to hear them!
WATCH us now in ‘Podium witteman’!
On the 7th of April 2019, I had the chance to talk and perform on the Dutch national television. Promoting the viola as a the beautiful solo instrument it is, I played the spectaculair ‘Allegro appassionato’ by Frank Bridge, a British composer and violist himself. Enjoy our performance!
Special thanks to pianist Martijn Willers for playing so wonderfully.
