“…Great clarity and temperament mark her way of playing the Viola, using all forms of expression…A very special event!…” - Frankfurter Allgemeine
Tatjana Masurenko, born in Russia, received her early training at
the Special Music School and the State Conservatory in
St.Petersburg. While still a student she was playing concerts with
the leading orchestras of Russia.
In 1991 she moved to Germany to continue her studies with Kim
Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold.
Her many encounters with Boris Pergamenschikow, Paul Badura-Skoda
and György Kurtag had a lasting influence on her artistic
development. She has won prizes and awards at numerous international
competitions, for example, the “Lionel Tertis” International Viola
Competition in England, the Markneukirchen International Viola
Competition in Germany and the “Yuri Bashmet” International Viola
Competition in Moscow, that was to seal her position amongst leading
Violists.
She has been a guest soloist with many orchestras in Europe, USA,
Asia and Russia, like the NDR Radio-Philharmonie, the
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin,
the St.Petersburg Philharmonics, the Hongkong Symphony Orchestra and
the Thomanerchor Leipzig, collaborating with Boris Pergamenschikow,
Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Isabelle van Keulen, Jan Vogler and
the Vogler-Quartet. During that she also worked with conductors like
Marek Janowski, Eiji Oue, Herbert Blomstedt ,Georg Christoph Biller
and Peter Oundjan.
Since 1996 only the artist has been guest of many important
festivals such as Marlboro Music Festival (USA), as well as
festivals in the United Kingdom (Prussia Cove and Hindemith Festival
London), West Cork Festival (Ireland), Delft Chamber Music Festival
(Netherlands), “Spannungen” Festival, Schloss Moritzburg and ECMA in
Cologne (Germany), “Schubertiaden” in St.Petersburg (Russia) and
made her debut on West German Radio (WDR), North German Radio (NDR),
Deutschland Radio Berlin, in Wigmore Hall (London), in Small Hall of
the Berlin Philharmonie. Besides all these concert tours Tatjana
Masurenko is Professor for Viola at the oldest German Hochschule für
Musik “F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” in Leipzig and conducts as well
several master classes in Germany, USA, Turkey and Russia.
After her first CD-Recording of G.A. Benda´s Viola Concerto the
“Fono-Forum” wrote:
“…The young Russian viola-player Tatjana Masurenko is a real discovery. Her recording is thoroughly convincing, her sound is beautiful, her technique is brilliant…”
“…Tatjana Masurenko is one of the most creative viola players around this time…” - Nobuko Imai
He
was born in Ankara Turkey. He started his music education in Ankara
Conservatory with Feza Gökmen. After his graduation he continued to
study in Leipzig "Hochschule für Musik und Theater – Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy" with Prof. Tatjana Masurenko in 2001. By the
time he also played as a tutti viola in "Halle Opernhaus"
(2002-2004) and practiced under the guidance of world famous viola
players such as Bruno Guiranna, Stefan Kamasa and Nobuko Imai. He
finished his master (2006) and doctorate degrees (2008) with the
title "very good".
Since 1997 he has played with many orchestras through Europe as a
guest or as a soloist. He performed Nejat Basegmezler’s Viola
Concerto "Lausanne" as a World premiere with the Presidential
Symphony Orchestra Ankara in 2008.
Since 2005, he is the principal violist of Camerata – The Friends of
Music orchestra in Athens. He is a member of the Tetraktys quartet
which is known as one of the young and successful quartetts in
Europe. The quartett had a concert at the Carnegie Hall lastly in
June 2014. Ali Başeğmezler is also a member of the ERGON Ensemble.
I was born in 1974 in Speyer in the Palatine region and having
completed my second-level education I trained initially as a
carpenter, specialising in furniture restoration. As an amateur
violinist, I was keen to link my passion for violin playing with my
knowledge of woodwork. Following an apprenticeship in violinmaking
at the atelier of Christian Erichson in Hannover, I worked for six
years completing my apprenticeship with Kristin Vasterling in
Stuttgart. Following completion of my Master Craftsman diploma (with
distinction) in Hamburg in 2010, I have worked together with Jürgen
Manthey in the atelier in Leipzig where there is also a selection of
my own Violins and Violas.