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Frederieke Saeijs

Violin

Biography

Dutch violinist Frederieke Saeijs drew international attention by winning the 2005 Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris. After taking away the First Grand Prize as well as several special distinctions, she received concert invitations from all over the world.

Saeijs’s engagements as a soloist have included those with prestigious orchestras such as the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de France, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

She worked with such inspiring conductors as Jonathan Darlington, Antony Hermus, Neëme Järvi, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Friedemann Layer, Aleksandar Markovic, Christoph Poppen, Vassily Sinaiski, Vladimir Spivakov and Jaap van Zweden.
Concert tours have brought Ms Saeijs to North and South America, Asia, the Middle East and many countries in Europe. She performed live for Radio France in Montpellier and Paris, for Radio Suisse Romande in Switzerland and for Radio 4 in The Netherlands.

Passionate about making chamber music, Saeijs regularly performs together with Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze and Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanovic as the Arosa Trio. The trio made several tours, with as highlights their engagements in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, as well as their performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Bergische Symphoniker.
Frederieke Saeijs was Artist in Residence at both the Dr. Anton Philips Hall in The Hague and the Dutch Music Summer. To the Canadian Festival of the Sound she was invited as Stockey Young Artist.

Also she had the honor to perform Bach’s Chaconne in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands at the Royal Palace in The Hague.
Ms Saeijs plays the Ex-Reine-Elisabeth violin by Pietro Guarneri (Venice, 1725), kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Foundation for Musical Instruments.
The Naxos Label released a CD with violin sonatas by Ravel, Respighi and Granados, recorded with pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren.
Besides performing, Ms Saeijs is dedicated to teaching young passionate musicians.
Currently she is Professor of Violin at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio in Madrid. Previously she was a member of the Faculty at the Royal Conservatoire in her hometown The Hague. Ms Saeijs was invitated to teach violin master classes across Europe, in Asia and the USA.

For the German organization Rhapsody in School she regularly visits German elementary and secondary schools to teach and play together with the students.
Also, she served as a member of the jury in The Netherlands at the Princess Christina Competition and the Davina van Wely Violin competition.

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191186, St. Petersburg, Mikhailovskaya st., 2
+7 (812) 240-01-80, +7 (812) 240-01-00
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+7 (812) 240-01-70
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