Loes Visser

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CURRICULUM VITAE Loes Visser

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name : Louise Ginette
Surname : Visser
Address : Von Piekartzmarke 18
8016 ML Zwolle
The Netherlands
Tel : +31 (0)38 4608404
Mob : +31 (0)6 41481688
e-mail : loesvisser@planet.nl
Date of Birth : 18th April 1959
Nationality : Dutch

MUSICAL EDUCATION

  • Private lessons in violin and piano (1967-1977)
  • Private lessons in conducting with Ru Sevenhuysen (1979-1983)
  • Sweelinck Conservatory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1978-1983)
  • Major course: Violin with Bouw Lemkes
  • Royal Conservatory of The Hague, The Netherlands (1983-1989)
  • Major course: Viola with Jürgen Kussmaul
  • Major course: Orchestral Conducting with Ed Spanjaard and Lucas Vis
  • Final examination in Orchestral Conducting (1989)
    Program final examination: - Schönberg, Pierrot Lunaire - Mahler, 5th Symphony
  • Conducting courses in Sienna with Franco Ferrara and Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1984/1987)
  • Conducting courses in Saumur with Constantin Bugeanu (1992/1993)
  • (Yehudi Menuhin Association)
  • Conducting course in Rotterdam with Ilya Musin and Valery Gergiev (auditor) (1997)
  • Studies with Bernard Haitink, Berlin, Dresden, Rotterdam
  • Private lessons with Constantin Bugeanu (Romania)
    (scholarship from 'Fonds van de Podiumkunsten' and the 'Prins Bernhard Fonds')

ARTISITIC POSITIONS
- Artistic leader of the Adamello Ensemble (1990 - date)
- Principal guest conductor Kiev State Symphony Orchestra (2006 - date)
- Artistic leader and principal conductor of the Britten Youth String Orchestra (2007 - date)

CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE (a selection)

Kiev State Symphony Orchestra (Kiev Ukraine, june 2006)
- F. Mendelsohn, Ouverture "Die Herbriden"
- W.A. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto KV622, Soloist: Victor Timetz
- J. Brahms, Symphony nr. 1 Op. 68 in C minor

Slowak Sinfonietta (concert tour Netherlands march 2006)
- J. Hayden, Symphony nr. 49 "La Passione"
- W.A. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto KV622, Soloist: Jos Ruiters
- G.B. Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, soloist: Karin ten Cate, Harda van Wageningen

Kiev State Symphony Orchestra – Concert at the Dnjepr (September 2005)
M.Moussorgski - Introduction to Kowanchina
J.Sibelius – Violin Concert, Soloist: Lisa Jacobs
P.Tchaikovski – 4th Symphony

Adamello Symphony Orchestra (june 2005)
- Bernstein, Ouverture Candide
- Prokofjev, parts from the Ballet Romeao & Juliet
- Bernstein, Symphonic dances from the West Side STory

Kiev State SymphonyOrchestra (march 2005)
- Smetana, The Moldau
- Tchaikovski, Violin Concert
Soloist : Berenice Cristine Terwey
- Rachmaninov, 2 nd Symphomy

Adamello Symphony Orchestra (Aug 2004)
- Tchaikovski, Ouverture Romeo and Juliet
- Aria’s and duets from :

•Puccini, Tosca and Manon Lescaut
•Verdi, Othello
•Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana
Sololists : Eva Westbroek (soprano), Frank van Aken (tenor)

Slowak Sinfonietta (tour, 7 concerts) (April 2004)
- Dvorak. Serenade for Strings
- Tchaikovski, Serenade for Strings
- Pergolesi, Stabat Mater

Soloists : Karin ten Cate (soprano), Maria Cecilia Toledo (mezzo)

Kiev State Symphony Orchestra (tour, 4 concerts) (Oct 2003)
- Shostakovich, Kammersinfonie op. 110a
- Beethoven, Violinconcerto

Soloist : Marta Abraham
- Prokofjev, Classic Symphony

Adamello Symphony Orchestra (July 2003)
- Beethoven, 5th Symphony
- Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Leoncavallo, Aria’s
Soloist : Frank van Aken (tenor)

Nieuw Ensemble (assistant conductor to Ed Spanjaard) (2003)
- Britten, Curlew River

European Sinfonietta (2002)
Opera Night with Miranda van Kralingen (soprano) and Frank van Aken (tenor)
- A selection of aria’s and orchestral pieces from Rossini (La Gazza Ladra),
Puccini (Tosca, Bohème, Manon Lescaut), Verdi (Otello)
and Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana)

Children’s Concert BSO (2001)
- Tchaikovsky Pieces form Swan Lake
- Prokofjev, Peter and the Wolf

Narrator: Margit Beukman, Loes Visser
- Brahms, Serenade in D, op. 11

BSO (2001) - Mozart, Ouverture ‘Die Zauberflöte’
- De Falla, ‘El Amor Brujo’
- Bosmans, Violin Concerto
Soloist : Mariëlle Ponsen (violin)
- Bizet, Carmen Suite

Children’s Concert BSO (2000)
- Mozart, Ouverture ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’
- Mozart, ‘Don Giovanni in a Nutshell’ (opera concert)
Narrator and Conductor: Loes Visser

Soloists: Serge Novique, Mitchell Sandler, Julia Bronkhorst
Children’s Concert - Adamello Ensemble (1999)
- Prokofjev – ‘Peter and the Wolf’
- Beethoven - 4 th piano concerto

Narrator: Guus Rekers, Soloist: Naum Grubert
‘Erstes Frauen Kammerorchester von Österreich’ (1998)
- Maria Anna Martinez - Sinfonie in C
- Silvia Sommer - 5 Israeli Dances
- Elisabetta Brusa - Adagio
- Mahler/Schubert - ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’

Adamello Ensemble (1990 - 1998)

•7 Tours to Italy, Switzerland and Germany,
•3 programs in Holland
- Moussorgski/van Keulen, ‘Songs and Dances of Death’
soloist: Geert Smits (baritone)
- Dvorak - Serenade op. 44

Adamello Ensemble (contd)
- Pärt - ‘Cantus for Benjamin Britten’,

- Arnold - Concerto for two violins
Soloists: Marijke van Kooten and Marin Mars
- Sjostakovitsch - Kammersymphonie opus 110a
- Britten - ‘Les Illuminations’,
Soloist: Julia Bronkhorst (soprano)
- Keuris - Variations for Strings
- Tchaikovski - Serenade for Strings
- Bizet/Rodion Schtchedrin - Carmen Suite
- Mahler - adagietto from the 5th symphony
- Verdi/Donizetti/Mozart - Aria's
Soloist: Alessandro Codeluppi (tenor)
-Tchaikovski - Souvenir de Florence

Adamello Ensemble - Programme dedicated to Henriëtte Bosmans (1995)
- Henriëtte Bosmans - ‘Concertstuk voor Fluit en Orkest’
- Henriëtte Bosmans - Songs : ‘Dix melodies’, ‘Doodenmars’, ‘Lead Kindly Light’, ‘Gebed’
- Willem Pijper - ‘Fètes Galantes’
- Henriëtte Bosmans - ‘Concertstuk voor Viool en Orkest’
Soloists : Eleonora Pameijer (flute), Julia Bronkhorst (soprano), Mariëlle Ponsen (violin)
(Programme recorded for radio broadcast by VPRO)

The Rotterdam University Orchestra 'Erasmusica' (1989-1998)
- Shostakovich - Symphony nr. 9, Borodin - Polowetser Dances (recorded on CD)
- Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto nr. 2 (soloist : Wibi Soerjadi, Hans Eysackers)
- Brahms - 3rd and 4th Symphony
- Mahler - 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen'
- G.Puccini - 'Le Villi', opera in 2 acts
Soloists: Wiebke Goëtjes (soprano), Frank van Aken (tenor), Palle Fuhr Jørgensen (bas)
- De Falla - El amor brujo

CREA Orchestra Amsterdam (1989-1994)
- Mozart - Opera 'Ascanio in Alba'
- Shostakovich - Songs from Jewish Poetry
- Fleischmann/Shostakovich - Opera in one Act ‘Rothchild's Violin’ (Dutch première)

Trombone Festival Detmold (1992)
- Ig Henneman - Première of 'How Slow the Wind' for 8 trombones

'Het Nieuw Ensemble' - 7th International congress on women in music (1991)
- 16 short new compositions from Dutch women composers
- Sonja Bo - D’iride, Nicola le Fanu - The Same Day Dawns, Xu Yi - Tao I,
Jacqueline Fontyn - Ephémères
(Recorded for radio broadcast by KRO)

Opera 'Forum Young', Opera house of Enschede (1988-1989)
- 2 opera's by Offenbach - ‘Bataclan’, 'Die Insel Tulipatan'

Jeugd Orkest Nederland (JON) (1989)
- Dvorak - Slavonic Dances
- Mendelsohn - Concerto for violin in e

Soloist : Ilona Sin Dian Ho
- Franck - Symphony in d

Amsterdam Theatre Orchestra (1984 -1988)
- Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead
- Prokofjev - Alexander Nevsky
- Bernstein, Stravinsky, Monnikendam - Psalm programme