Amsterdam Sinfonietta Soloists CCS SA 36215 Amsterdam Sinfonietta Candida Thompson She has been concertmaster of Amsterdam Amsterdam Sinfonietta is an ensemble of 22 Candida Thompson studied with the renowned Sinfonietta since 1995 and its artistic director gifted musicians from around the world. The teacher David Takeno at the Guildhall School since 2003. When leading an orchestral project group performs without a conductor, under of Music and Drama in London, where she she highly values the individual input of all the the direction of Candida Thompson, who has gained her soloist diploma with distinction. players: her musical approach elicits maximum been artistic director since 2003. Amsterdam She continued her studies at the Banff Centre involvement and total dedication from the Sinfonietta is a much admired ensemble with for the Arts in Canada. Subsequently she musicians. strong roots in the Dutch cultural scene. Its won various prizes at competitions, including Under Candida Thompson’s leadership defining feature is the strong involvement and the Internationale Jeunesses Musicales in Amsterdam Sinfonietta has recorded nine artistic drive of each individual member. Every Belgrade. Candida has appeared as a soloist CDs to date. Following the much acclaimed season, Amsterdam Sinfonietta presents a with various orchestras in Europe, the United ‘Shostakovich Weinberg’ CD, with Candida series of concerts in the Concertgebouw and States and East Asia, including the Moscow the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam, and Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, makes regular appearances at major regional the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the English concert halls throughout the Netherlands. String Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and It undertakes annual international tours and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. has performed throughout Europe as well Candida is a passionate chamber musician. as in the United States, Australia and China. She has performed with musicians including Amsterdam Sinfonietta is notable for the Isaac Stern, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, originality of its programmes, which combine Dvořák and Britten for labels such as Sony, Isabelle Faust and Bruno Giuranna. She well-known repertoire with commissions, new Channel Classics and ECM. It enjoys intensive founded the Hamlet Piano Trio together with arrangements and rarely performed works. collaborations with pre-eminent musicians the cellist Xenia Jancovic and pianist Paolo It has also initiated an impressive number of such as Jean Guihen Queyras, Barbara Giacometti. Candida has regularly been invited multi-disciplinary projects, collaborating with Hannigan, Steven Isserlis, Alexander Melnikov, to perform at the Kuhmo Festival in Finland choreographers, actors and film directors. Isabelle Faust, Christianne Stotijn and Håkan and La Musica in the United States and has Recent commissions include world premieres Hardenberger. The orchestra also works with been a guest at the Canossa Masterclasses of compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina, Thomas non-classical artists including Patrick Watson, in Reggio Emilia, the Gubbio Festival in Italy Larcher, Tigran Mansurian, Michel van der Aa Bryce Dessner and Keaton Henson. In recent and the Ernen Chamber Music Festival in and Peteris Vasks. seasons it has toured Europe with Janine Switzerland. Amsterdam Sinfonietta has released an Jansen, Thomas Hampson, Martin Fröst, From an early age, Candida was already impressive array of recordings, featuring Sol Gabetta and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. leading chamber orchestras in Scandinavia, composers including Mozart, Beethoven, • Spain, the Netherlands and Great Britain. as soloist in Weinberg’s rarely performed the year at this institute. In the same year Andriessen with the Amsterdam Bridge Concertino, this season saw the release of she was a finalist for the Vriendenkrans of the Ensemble, and performed on a number of ‘The Argentinian Album’, featuring her as Amsterdam Concertgebouw. She continued discs with the Ruysdael Quartet and the Leo soloist in Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons. her studies with David Takeno in London. In Smit Ensemble. From 1997 to 2004 Jacobien Candida has lived in Amsterdam since 1992. 1997 she took part in the Tanglewood Music Rozemond was a member of Combattimento She plays on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin. Festival, where she worked as concertmaster Consort Amsterdam, and in 2003 she became with the conductor Seji Ozawa. Jacobien principal of the second violins with Amsterdam Jacobien Rozemond Rozemond has appeared as a soloist in a Sinfonietta. She has appeared with both Jacobien Rozemond studied violin with Davina wide repertoire ranging from Vivaldi and ensembles as soloist and concertmaster. van Wely and Ilya Grubert. In 1995 she gained Brahms to Schnittke and McCabe, in countries her soloist diploma with the highest distinction including France, Italy, the United States and Daniel Bard at the Rotterdam Conservatory and won the Argentina. From 2004 to 2007 she played with The Israeli-Canadian violinist/violist Daniel Esso Prize for the best final examination of the Ruysdael Quartet, with which she won the Bard began his music studies in Haifa with 2006 Kersjes Prize. As a chamber musician Avigdor Zamir and, after moving to Toronto she is a familiar guest at festivals in the at the age of thirteen, with David Zafer and Netherlands, England, Italy and Australia. She Lorand Fenyves. He continued his studies at presents annual chamber music concerts and Yale University with Peter Oundjian (from the masterclasses at the Peter de Grote Festival Tokyo Quartet) and at the Guildhall School in Groningen. Composers have written music of Music and Drama in London with David for Jacobien in which she combines violin Takeno. Daniel discovered his passion for in Europe, and received a Fellowship from the playing with her voice. Similarly, she created chamber music during the six years he spent BBT Trust of London in 2009. Recently the trio a theatrical programme based on tales from in Canada’s Metro String Quartet, which made its debut at the Wigmore Hall. Daniel has A Thousand and One Nights, a one-woman collaborated with artists such as Menahem been a principal player in Sweden’s Camerata show in which she plays, sings and tells Pressler and Gilbert Kalish. Today, he Nordica since 2003, and is a regular guest with about Shéhérazade. The suite for violin solo performs regularly as a violinist and violist in the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. In 2007 he with voice and foot bell from this programme, chamber music concerts in Europe, Israel and was invited by Tabea Zimmermann to guest written by René Samson, appeared on a CD Scandinavia. In 2007, Daniel co-founded Trio lead Camerata Bern, and since then he has by the Amsterdam Bridge Ensemble featuring Mondrian, which won first prize as well as a led several projects there. Since 2009 he has chamber music by this composer, which was special prize for their interpretation of Brahms been principal violist of Amsterdam Sinfonietta, awarded a 10 by the Dutch music magazine at the 2007 International Chamber Music with whom he has also appeared as a soloist. Luister. Jacobien also recorded a highly Competition in Trieste, Italy. The trio has since Daniel plays a 1686 Giovanni Grancino violin acclaimed CD of chamber music by Hendrik performed at prestigious venues and festivals generously loaned to him by Yehuda Zisapel. a graduate of the New England Conservatory Rick won first prizes at the Princess Christina his second CD Basso Bailando (2014) both of Music in Boston, and took Diplom and Competition, the Young Musical Talent received rave reviews. Rick was principal Konzertexamen degrees with honours at the Foundation and elsewhere, and in 2013 he double bass in the Arnhem Philharmonic Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where she received the highest accolade awarded to Orchestra and Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester studied with Frans Helmerson. In Europe, musicians in the Netherlands, the Dutch Berlin, and is currently principal in the Swedish Kaori was chosen to play at several festivals Music Prize. Many solo appearances at home Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was principal and academies, including the Verbier Festival and abroad were soon to follow, including a double bass with Amsterdam Sinfonietta from and Kronberg Chamber Music Connects the Carte Blanche series in the small auditorium 2004 to 2014. Rick teaches at the Amsterdam World, where she performed chamber music of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Rick Conservatory and is to take up a teaching with Gidon Kremer, Eduard Brunner and Yuri performs regularly as soloist with orchestras post at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Bashmet. She has appeared as a soloist with including the Swedish Radio Symphony Dusseldorf. He performs on a Raffaele & various orchestras in Europe, East Asia and Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Rotterdam Antonio Gagliano double bass, generously the United States. Besides her activities as a Chamber Orchestra, Arnhem Philharmonic on loan from the Dutch Musical Instrument soloist and chamber musician, she has been Orchestra, Philharmonie Zuid Nederland Foundation. principal cellist of Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Residentie Orchestra The Hague. • since 2010. Kaori is also active in music In the coming seasons Rick will expand his teaching, coaching chamber music for two soloist activities, including appearances with Kaori Yamagami consecutive years at the Kronberg Academy’s Musica Vitae Sweden, Joensuu Symphony Kaori Yamagami is one of today’s