Biography

Loes Visser loves to challenge and inspire the orchestra while working in an atmosphere of friendship, responsibility and devotion to music. She invites her musicians to realise their musical dreams together, always persuing a high musical standard. Her musical programmes exhale vision and creativity and invite the audience to listen. Her mission: to bring out the best in musicians with great love for the music and its listeners!

​Loes Visser started conducting at the age of 18 and has since led several orchestra’s both at home in the Netherlands and abroad, including the Kiev Soloists, the European Sinfonietta, the Slowak Sinfonietta, the State Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the Dutch ‘New Ensemble’. She was the principal conductor of the Amstredam Theatre Orchestra and the Rotterdam University Orchestra. She performed with great soloists like pianists Naum Grubert and Daniel Wayenberg, soprano Eva Maria Westbroek, Miranda van Kralingen and Bernadeta Astari, tenor Frank van Aken, violinists Liza Ferschtman, Charlie Siem, Carla Leurs, Maria Milstein, Rosanne Philippens, Daniel Rowland and with the great cellists Gavriel Lipkind. Anastasia Kobekina and Maja Bogdanovic.

With her Adamello Ensemble, which she founded in 1990, Loes Visser performed in special locations with a.o. programs around Dutch women composers Alba Rosa Viëtor en Henrietta Bosmans, concerttours to Italy and a series of Young Person’s Concerts in the spirit of the great Leonard Bernstein. She is not afraid of challenging concert venues. Most radical were her concerts performed with the ensemble inside the Dutch jail in Scheveningen.

Loes Visser loves to conduct opera. She conducted a.o. the West Side Story (ballet) and seldom heard opera’s like Puccini’s ‘les Villi’ and ‘Rothchild’s violin’ by Fleishmann/ Shostakovich, but also many concertante aria’s programmes, from Puccini’s Tosca to la Bohème. 

In 2007 Loes Visser founded the Britten Youth String Orchestra for young talented musicians, one of the leading young talent string orchestra’s in the Netherlands. She leads the young string players in great performances and inspires them in their passion to grow as musicians. She is a true coach for young musical talent, recognizes their talent and brings out the best in them. 

She was head of the ArtEZ Chamber Music Department at the ArtEZ Conservatory in Zwolle, Netherlands where she successfully introduced the ArtEZ Chamber Music Sessions as part of a new chamber music curriculum. It is her vision that Conservatory students should not only perform in school but more outside school for audiences, to develop their stage performance.

Loes Visser studied violin with Bouw Lemkes and viola with Jürgen Kussmaul before switching to studying conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory in the Hague in the Netherlands. She studied conducting with Ru Sevenhuijsen, Ed Spanjaard and Lucas Vis. She followed master classes in conducting with Bernard Haitink, Ilja Mussin, Constantin Bugeanu, Franco Ferrara and Guennadi Rozdestvenski.

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