Presenters

The IVC2018 is organized by the Dutch Viola Society, but the majority of actual contents is contributed by musicians, composers, scholars, teachers and students (collectively called “presenters”) from 32 different countries, selected through a Call for Proposals (now closed). We distinguish between five categories of presentations:

The names of all selected Presenters are listed below:

Ahmed, Rezhwan – Iraq
Akansu, Nehir – Turkey
Alvarez, Silvina – Argentina
Alves, Ana – Portugal
Alves, Jorge – Portugal
Amsterdam Conservatoire – Netherlands
Anazco, Andrés – Ecuador
Ansell, Gillian – New Zealand
Antal, Matthew – Canada
Aquilani, I Solisti – Italy
Balaban, Lech – Poland
Birmingham Conservatoire – UK
Braddock, Andrew – USA
Brown, Katie – USA
Buruk, Kardelen – Turkey
Carlini, Stefano – Italy
Coninck, Victor De – Canada
Cuacci, Juan Esteban – Argentina
Dinerchtein, Viacheslav – Switzerland
Dispa, Marjolein – Netherlands
Dore, Emily – UK
Draghicescu, Angela – Romania
Eggen, Paul – Netherlands
Ensemble, ESMAE – Portugal
Ensemble, Lusitanea – Portugal
Ensemble, Rotterdam Philharmonic – Netherlands
Ensemble, Tollens – Netherlands
Frendin, Henrik – Sweden
Frisk, Henrik – Sweden
Gebrian, Molly – USA
Geel, Oene van – Netherlands
Gerling, Daphne – Brazil
Glass, Rebecca  – USA
Goldstein, Elias – USA
Guandique-Araniva, Orquídea – El Salvador
Herndon, Hillary – USA
Hewitt, Anthony – UK
Hornsveld, Mathilda – South Africa
Hubisz-Sielska, Boguslawa – Poland
Insom, Camilla – Italy
Jalal, Zana – Iraq
Kimura, Yoko – Japan
Komendarek-Tymendorf, Krzysztof – Poland
Konoye, Take – Japan
Kosmala, Jerzy – USA
Kukuła-Kopczyńska, Jolanta – Poland
Kurzbauer, Heather – USA
Kussmaul, Jürgen – Germany
Lansdown, Louise – South Africa
Lanzilotti, Anne – Canada
Lee, Hsiaopei – Taiwan
Liebler, M.L. – USA
Lo, Wei-Chun Bernadette – USA
Lowman, Kathryn – USA
Macchione, Daniela – Italy
Maijala, Lilli – Finland
Maliszewski, Błażej – Poland
Marin, Olivier – France
Maurice, Donald – New Zealand
McDaniel, Kellen – USA
Meidell, Katrin – USA
Meinich, Ada Myriel – Norway
Moolman, Jeanne-Louise – South Africa
Mun, Kelvin – Canada
Murawski, Marcin – Poland
Nolan, Lucy – UK
Oliver, Frida Siegrist – Norway
Onishi, Yoshiaki – Japan
Paull, Pemi – Canada
Pedrana, Matias – Argentina
Pelczer, Anna – Hungary
Pelser, Yanna – Netherlands
Puchhammer, Jutta – Austria
Rossi, Georgina Isabel – Chile
Rossy, Sarah – Canada
Rutledge, Christine – USA
Sabbah, Marc – Belgium
Saggini, Gianluca – Italy
Samama, Leo – Netherlands
Sanzò, Luca – Italy
Satterwhite, Roland – USA
Schatborn, Francien – Netherlands
Shybaeva, Hanna – Russia
Siegrist Bjørnsen, Beatrice – Norway
Sielski, Mariusz – Poland
Sijbrandij, Marten – Netherlands
Skaug, Ursula – Netherlands
Solbiati, Alessandro – Italy
Sowiński, Krzysztof – Poland
Stanisławska, Dorota – Poland
Thomson, Alexa – New Zealand
Tiknaz, Beste – Turkey
Ungar, Felix – USA
Valdimarsdottir, Asdis – Iceland
Valoti, Alicia Marie – USA
Van der Vyver, Elmarie – South Africa
Variego, Jorge – Argentina
Vogel, Annette-Barbara – Canada
Vroegop, Sophie – Netherlands
Wei, Chih-Chen – Taiwan
White, Thomas – USA
Wilczak-Płaziuk, Róża – Poland
Worms, Marcel – Netherlands
Yeung, Myra – Canada
Yu, Yue – China
Zemtsov, Mikhail – Netherlands
Zuñiga-Chanto, Fernando – Costa Rica

Presenters generally enjoy the benefits of a full week of Congress, inspiring each other and us with innovative topics and high-quality performances.

Practice rooms (with or without piano) will be available at the Congress venue throughout the week, so that Presenters can rehearse alone or together with their accompanists.

In addition, all recitalists will have the benefit of a brief advance sound-check (aka. partial dress rehearsal) in the actual hall where their Presentation will be given, so they can get a notion of the acoustics and the ambiance, and make decisions about lighting, stage positioning and other things.