Hawijch Elders

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Hawijch Elders
Born (1998-10-31) 31 October 1998 (age 25)
Grenoble, France
Genres classical
Instrument(s) violin
Website www.hawijchelders.com

Hawijch Elders is a Dutch violinist born on 31 October 1998.

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Biography

Elders started violin lessons at the age of six at Mea Fontijn, and from 2011-2016 she received violin lessons and chamber music lessons from Benzion Shamir. She has been following her violin training with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2016, where she completed the Bachelor of Music (2020) and Master of Music (2022) degree programmes with highest distinction. Since September 2022, she is Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where she studies with Augustin Dumay.

She received many prizes and awards at national and international violin competitions. In May 2023, Hawijch Elders won the first prize at the 8th International Violin Competition Henri Marteau, [1] [2] with a performance of Paganini's first violin concerto with the Hofer Symphoniker conducted by Christoph-Mathias Mueller, and she received special awards for the interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger and Henri Marteau. In 2021, she was awarded the second prize at the Odesa International Violin Competition [3] and the first prize at the 5th Leonid Kogan International Competition. [4] In 2018, Elders won four prizes at the international competition 'Rodolfo Lipizer' in Italy. Beside the second prize [5] she was also awarded for three special prizes: the prize for best performance of a Sivori etude, the prize for most talented young violinist and the prize for best performance of a 20th century sonata. [6] During 2018, at the Netherlands violin competition "Oskar Back", Hawijch Elders won the second prize and the Audience Award.

Hawijch Elders often performs in the Netherlands and abroad. As a soloist she played with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Domestica Rotterdam, the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residentie Orchestra, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira. [7] She made her debut in Bozar, Brussels, in March 2023, performing Mozart’s fourth Violin Concerto with the Wiener KammerOrchester conducted by Augustin Dumay. She has worked in chamber music concerts with Valeriy Sokolov, Quirine Viersen and Maria Milstein.

Instrument

Hawijch Elders plays a Gennaro Gagliano violin (Naples ca.1755) and a Dominique Peccatte bow on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds. The violin belongs to the 'collection Willem G. Vogelaar' and the bow belongs to the 'collection Tettelaar'.

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