Nadia Wijzenbeek

Dutch violinist Nadia Wijzenbeek is in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster. She made concerto debuts in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in 1999 and the Royal Albert Hall in 2004 with the Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. She has since returned to the Concertgebouw with orchestras such as the National State Orchestra of the Ukraine. She has given recitals at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Rudolphinum in Prague, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and halls in Moscow and St Petersburg. As a member of the Aronowitz Ensemble, Nadia was a BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award winner and has recorded extensively for the BBC, Hyperion and Sonimage. The ensemble plays regularly at major halls and festivals throughout the UK and Europe. In 2009 Nadia was appointed concertmaster of the Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands, and in 2013 became the concertmaster of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Nadia is also Artistic Director of the popular concert series Raadhuisconcerten in her hometown of Hilversum in the Netherlands.