Guest Artist Bio

Quirine Viersen

• Performs in Dvorak's Cello Concerto:
  Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm
  Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 7:30 pm
  Monday, May 10, 2010 at 8 pm
  
  
• Performs in Beethoven Festival (Day 1):
  Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm
  

Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen is among the leaders of Europe’s next generation of musical personalities. She makes her American orchestral debut in successive concerts with the Oregon Symphony this spring, performing Antonin Dvořák’s Cello Concerto May 8-10 and then staying on to perform as cello soloist in the Beethoven Triple Concerto at the opening concert of Beethoven Festival Weekend May 15.

Viersen received her first lessons from her father, Yke Viersen, a cellist in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She completed her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and was already a winner of various prizes at international competitions – such as the Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 1990 and the Internatio­nal Cello Competition in Helsinki in 1991 – when, in April 1994, she became the first Dutch musician to win a prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

She has since performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under both Herbert Blomstedt and Bernard Haitink, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, among others. In coming seasons she is scheduled to perform with such orchestras as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Shanghai Symphony and the Ulster Orchestra.

More information online: quirineviersen.com