Always an exciting moment when it arrives on the doormat!🎉 This was such a blast with this brilliant gang! Thanks everyone!!!😍 Release on Challenge Records International in March :))

Here are some impressions of the Stift Midwinter Festival, that just happened: 6 intense concerts over 2 days in the cosy Stiftkerk: I felt energized by the end of it, thanks to this fantastic bunch of friends, and the loveliest…

Yesterday fun concert in Nijmegen Concertgebouw de Vereeniging – one of the most beautiful halls in Europe! With dearests Dana Zemtsov ANNA FEDOROVA Nicky Schwartz and Maja Bogdanovic  🥰🩷🩷🩷 Vanderholst Arts Management – VAM Artists

Some fun snaps of yesterday’s lovely 🎄gala at the @davidsbundlermusicacademy with this dearest gang😍👌 It was the perfect, cosy, festive ending to a pretty intensive week!🥂🥰 With Dana Zemtsov Maja Bogdanovic Anna Fedorova Nicky Schwartz Looking forward to playing in…

  Happy to read the 5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review about our Brahms Double concerto with the English Symphony Orchestra Daniel Rowland – violin and dear Kenneth Woods, conductor in Malvern last Friday 🥰 Fairy Powered Productions Courie Enrique Amado Juneau Thank you🙏🏻…

Just arrived in UK after week in incredible Recife🇧🇷. THANK you dearest Ana Altino for these fantastically warm-hearted, vibrant, energizing days in your superb Virtuosi Festival, and for your amazing hospitality. Thank you Rafaell Altino for bringing us to Recife,…

I’m very excited to announce the birth of our Arethusa Quartet!! It’s tremendously exciting to be embarking on this quartet adventure together and we can’t wait to dive deeply, together into the incredible quartet world that we love so much…

Tonight with Super Star Boyash in Almere: Bach, Mozart, Kancheli & Silvestrov😍

Maja Bogdanovic and I are looking forward to this Dutch tour with fantastic Combattimento with a very colourful and exciting programme – from Vivaldi double & triple concertos, Boccherini, to Sollima’s Igiul LB Files, and Lonely angel by Vasks 🪽🪽🪽…

Fun day filming for @kun_rest at beautiful @thersaorg in central London. Something is cooking :)

It’s somehow not easy to find the right words to describe how happy/delighted/grateful/inspired I feel, looking back at the 19th Stiftfestival ‘A Mediterranean Voyage’, that ended exactly a week ago. All the elements seemed to come together to create 9…

This Masterclass was great fun to do, we recorded it in late June in the Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk that I know so well. It was a joy to work with these three brilliant talents!🙏 The organization by the Podium Klassiek…

Here’s a big shout out to dearest Claude Frochauxa and his absolutely brilliant team, for having created a pretty much perfect festival, Kammermusikfest Sylt. Magical setting, original & super inspired programmes, light and incredibly warm hearted atmosphere, delicious food and…

35 brilliant young musicians, 6 incredible cities, 8 countries by road, by the end 2 verrry sad looking bows: this were two joyful, intensive, super inspiring weeks spent with this amazing EUYO family – countless unforgettable, uplifting moments, the premiere…

Very happy to see this warm review in BBC music magazine, thank you for loving this unique, intimately powerful music as much we do! 🙏🙏 Challenge Records International VAM Artists

Looking forward to playing my ‘kamikaze programme’ 😬🙏 this evening at beautiful & atmospheric Theater Hof 88 in Almelo. And I’m loving looking at these ‘90s photos, with some rather familiar faces😅

A few impressions of last night’s hugely enjoyable, festive concert with the RTS Symphony Orchestra at Kolarac. Maja played an incredible Saint Saens, and I loved playing (for the first time) together his very beautiful ‘Muse & Poet’, plus Thais…

I’m SO looking forward to this!!!!😍😍 Composer Maxim Shalygin writes: Humanity has reached the 21st century, but have we approached the understanding of the divine, have we established harmony with the world? The theme Song of the Earth of the…

What a special, moving, and unforgettable evening…. Thank you dearest Nino & Delft Chamber Music Festival! 🙏 Vlady ❤️💫 “ Gisterenavond brachten we een eerbetoon aan Vladimir ‘Vlady’ Mendelssohn: een goede vriend van vele musici op het podium. Na het…

Looking hugely forward to playing beloved Distant light this afternoon with this great gang at the great Valdres sommersymfoni – festivalen. Inspiring and memorable to spend these days here together, surrounded by nature, friends and good vibes. It’s wonderful to…

What a night yesterday at Artscape! It was wonderful to play Brahms with Maja with great Bernhard Gueller and the wonderful Cape Town Philharmonic sounding absolutely brIlliant! The Gala was to mark the return to live concerts for full halls…

Leaving Helsinki after 2 wonderful weeks. Big congrats to Inmo Yang for winning the Sibelius Competition, and to all the fantastic laureates & finalists! What a wonderfully inspiring 2 weeks it have been, and WHAT an AMAZING level, so so…

On Sunday April 3rd ‘my’ Stift Festival together with the Wilminktheater in Enschede organized a big Ukraine Benefit concert., for which many wonderful artists and friends came together. I‘m so grateful to all the amazing  artists, and kindred spirits who…

On the last day of the Konvergencie Festival Brahms immersion, I gave a Masterclass to some very talented students, in this beautiful museum in the heat of Bratislava. Here are a couple of quite expressive snapshots :)

It was a great pleasure to return to beautiful Bratislava for 2 concert of Brahms chamber music, with great Nino Gvetadze, Maja Bogdanovic, Robert Cohen and other wonderful musicians. Thank you to Konvergencie Festival and Jozef Luptak for the great…

It was a very great pleasure to perform my beloved Alban Berg Concerto ‘to the memory of an angel’ with the excellent FORM: Filarmonica Marchigiana, conducted by fellow Berg-lover Maestro Manlio Benzi. We had the time to really work together…

It was great to be back in London after (incredibly) 2 years. I’m looking forward to coming to RCM more regularly again, and it was really nice seeing the Conchord Ensemble gang again, for a fun concert of Faure and…

I’m glad to announce this Benefit Concert ‘❤️for Ukraine’, on Sunday April 3 at 19.00, presented by the Stift Festival together with the Wilminktheater, in the Muziekcentrum Enschede. It is so incredibly heartwarming and touching that greatest, dearest Nino Gvetadze,…

It was a great pleasure to record and perform the world premieres of 2 very  beautiful, appealing &  brilliant concertos by Philip Sawyers, with the excellent English Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Kenneth Woods. With Maja we did Philip’s Double…

Thank you Joost Galema for selecting our Shostakovich cycle at Stift last summer  as one of your top three concerts of 2021! :) It was such a journey. With dear friends Maja, Joel, Tijmen, Floor, Dana, Lilli & Mikhail 🙏😍…

Let’s raise a glass to a beautiful, joyous 2022, and may it be full of live music! 🥂🎶 I have updated the concert diary for the first 3 months  of the new year – have a look, it will be…

It was wonderful to play this festive programma in the Concertgebouw on Boxing Day: Schubert’s Trout and pieces by Tchaikovsky, Piazzolla and Vladi Mendelssohn with our Ensemble 150, with dearest Maja, Lilli Anna, and Nicky Holland is in a lockdown since…

The magazine of the Concertgebouw ‘Preludium’ has a nice regular feature, ‘the instrument case of….’ And in this ‘case’ they took some pictures of my violin case and asked me some questions, such as about the Prince Frog.. :) The…

We had a wonderful time in Ljubljana, and around beautiful Slovenia with our ChamberJam Ensemble, with Marcelo, Natacha, Alberto and Zoran, who also fantastically made this tour happen. What a joy to see this gorgeous country and to spend time…

I’m so happy that tickets for the Stiftfestival, from 21-29 August are now on sale 😍 This year the festival is bigger, and more ambitious than ever, celebrating LIVE MUSIC with a colorful, adventurous, diverse, both challenging and fun programme,…

Our brand new Ensemble 150 – a collective of adventurous, like minded minds as well as great friends, was formed in the unusual year 2020 in and around the Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk in Amsterdam, where we had the chance to…

I were very happy to see this beautiful review on Bachtrack for last week’s premiere at the Concertgebouw of Roxanna Panufnik’s Songs of love and friendship, that the Stiftfestival commissioned together with AVROTROS. :)) ” Relatively  unusual was the addition…

That was quite a weekend! What a total joy to premiere Roxanna Panufnik’s gorgeously fantastical, evocative and extatic ‘Songs of love and friendship’, commissioned by AVROTROS and ‘my’ Stiftfestival, at the Concertgebouw yesterday with the incredible Groot Omroepkoor conducted by…

It was eally exciting to play last week  Maxim Shalygin’s wildly original & colorful Violin Concerto, for violin and 114 percussion instruments (!)  with the terrific Shapeshift Ensemble with the composer conducting! Thank you ClassicalNOW and Konstantyn Napolov for making…

It’s so exciting to see that live music making music a resuming again after more than a year, and to see that  this summer is filling up with concerts and festivals. From all the cancellations to suddenly very busy again!…

It is so wonderful to be playing for larger, live audiences again! A thrilling feeling to walk onto stage again, and to feel the energy of a live public :):) We celebrated this with 2 very exciting concerts with our…