EVA STEGEMAN - Director
The Dutch violinist Eva Stegeman (1971) studied with Davina van Wely in Amsterdam and with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she was awarded the ‘M. Warsaw Chamber Music Award’. Furthermore she has taken part in international seminars with great pedagogues such as György Sebök, Viktor Liberman, Herman Krebbers, Boris Belkin and Lorrand Fenyves at Prussia Cove in the UK. In 1995 she was the 2nd prize winner at the final of the National Oskar Back violin competition, performing the Beethoven concerto in the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She regularly appears as a soloist throughout Holland as well as in Germany, Austria, France, Norway, England and Denmark, performing violin concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns en Pärt.

As a chamber music player Eva is much in demand; she regularly gives recitals throughout Holland and has performed with chamber music ensembles in many different formations. She is a member of the ‘Cristofori Piano Quartet Amsterdam’ together with Paolo Giacometti (piano), Johannes Erkes (viola) and Timora Rosler (cello). In 1998, at the invitation of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, she took part in a performance of the Brahms 2nd String Sextet with the legendary Isaac Stern. Outside Holland she has been invited to perform at numerous international chamber music festivals such as in Austria (Salzburg and Vienna), Italy (Spoleto), USA (Carmel), Germany (Harzburg, Rellingen and Aschau in Chiemgau), Finland (Rauma) and Switzerland (Sierre and Ernen). Eva is the founder and artistic director of the ‘Chamber Music Festival Haaglanden’ which yearly takes place in The Hague, Holland.

Eva is a member of the ensemble ‘Combattimento Consort Amsterdam’ with whom she performs all over the world and has taken part in numerous radio broadcasts and CD-recordings for the label Bona Nova. For several years she was the concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Holland and as a guest leader she has been invited to work with various different ensembles and orchestras in The Netherlands. From 1998 – 2002 she was the Principal 2nd Violin of the ‘Amsterdam Sinfonietta’ chamber orchestra with whom she has also appeared as a soloist.

Eva plays a G.B. Rogeri violin from around 1680.