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HVVS Workshop Historical Performance

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The Historical Viola and Violin Society (a subsection of the DVS) offers another very interesting free lecture/workshop!

This weekend, prof. Antoinette Lohmann will teach a course in historical performance to the Utrecht Conservatory (HKU) classical viola students who study with Annemarie Konijnenburg and Mikhail Zemtsov. The students will play on modern instruments with modern bows, but there will be a baroque viola and some bows available to try. The students will perform works by Telemann, Bach and Hoffmeister.

Active participation is in principle limited to the above mentioned students, but audience is more than welcome!

When: Saturday February 10th (2024), 09.45-16.15
Where: Fentener van Vlisssingenzaal, Utrechts Conservatorium, Mariaplaats 28 (yellow building),

 

Viola Day Dordrecht 2023

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Some of you may remember how the DVS was first announced 11 years ago at the Viola Festival in Dodrecht in February 2012. After more than a decade of official operation, we return to Dodrecht to celebrate our roots. In cooperation with the International Viola Academy (IVA), the DVS organizes a Viola Day in Dordrecht on Monday, May 29th 2023 (2e pinksterdag).

We are hoping for participation from all viola fans – amateurs, students and professionals – to celebrate the viola together with a full-day programme, including:

  • Masterclasses for Viola Students and Young Talents (aged 26 or younger) with viola faculty from the IVA: Marcin Murawski, Emlyn Stam and Karin Dolman.
    Selected students get a full one-hour masterclass. There are 9 spots available.
  • Viola Ensemble (open to all participants!) led by Jeppe Moulijn
    A four-part orchestra consisting entirely of VIOLAS!
    Players of all levels are welcome (amateurs, students, pros).
    We will be playing Gordon Jacob’s Suite for 8 violins (YouTube link), arranged especially for this viola ensemble with parts in varying difficulty; and possibly also a surprise composition! Sheet music will be sent in advance.
    We rehearse together and give a performance at the end of the session!
  • A Concert with contributions from DVS Delegates to the IVC 2023 in Thailand
  • Second-hand sheet music marketplace
  • Lunch and Afterparty (borrel)

Costs:
For Masterclass students €50,00 *
For Ensemble playing €35 *
For Audience €30 (students €20) *
Concert ticket only €17.50 (students €7.50)
*) Rates include Lunch and Concert, and DVS Friends get additional 10% discount!
(these conditions do not apply for Concert ticket only)

Schedule:
10.00 Masterclasses session 1
11.15 Masterclasses session 2
11.00 Ensemble playing (for everyone)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Masterclasses session 3
15.30 Concert
17.00 Afterparty with sale of 2nd hand sheet music

Venue: Trinitatiskapel (and auxiliary locations to be announced)
Vriesestraat 20, Dordrecht (10 minutes’ walk from Dordrecht railway station)

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Online lecture by Molly Gebrian on the Neuroscience of Practicing

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The DVS has the pleasure to invite you to an online lecture:

“What Musicians can Learn about Practicing from Current Brain Research”

Lecturer:  Dr. Molly Gebrian
Date:  Sunday, January 15th, 2023
Time: 20:00h (Central European Time)
Place: Online (Zoom; registered participants will receive a link)
Language:  English
Costs: Voluntary financial donation
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This presentation will focus on what neuroscientists have discovered about how our brains learn and how to apply these insights to practicing and teaching so that practicing becomes more efficient and effective, leading to enhanced performance ability, enjoyment, and confidence. Topics include: how to get rid of bad habits, how to make things automatic/reliable, the role of sleep in learning, the power of mental practicing, how to use the metronome to greatest effect, and the benefits of random practice for enhanced performance.

Dr. Molly Gebrian is a professional violist and scholar with a background in cognitive neuroscience. Her area of expertise is applying the research on learning and memory to practicing and performing music. She also investigates the intersections between music and language. As a performer, she prioritizes the works of living composers and those who have traditionally been excluded from the culture of classical music. She holds degrees in both music and neuroscience from Oberlin College and Conservatory, New England Conservatory of Music, and Rice University. Currently, she is the viola professor at the University of Arizona.

Viola Society members may recall her lecture with a similar scope, given at the 48th International Viola Congress in Rotterdam, 2018. Molly also serves on the board of the American Viola Society, and she was a co-host for the successful 47th International Viola Congress in Columbus, Georgia last year.

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DVS Lecture “Collaboration with Living Composers”

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The DVS has the pleasure to invite you to an online lecture:

“The roles and responsibilities of the violist
when collaborating with living composers“

Lecturer:  Michelle Pritchard
Date:  Saturday, March 19th 2022
Time: 17:00h (Central European Time)
Place: Online (Zoom; registered participants will receive a link)
Language:  English
Costs: Voluntary financial donation,
we suggest €10,-
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Australian-born violist Michelle Pritchard is completing her Master’s thesis at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Her research is an exploration into the realisation of new and pre-existing viola works, the resulting artistic and intellectual exchanges between composer and violist, and of course the expansion of our repertoire. In this YouTube clip, you can see and hear her perform one of the subject works:

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Signs, Games & Messages – Musings of a middle-aged chamber music nerd

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Online lecture by violist Roeland Jagers

In this lecture, based on a recently published text, Roeland shares 25 years of chamber music experience. His journey as a violist and teacher is inspiring for professionals, students and amateur musicians alike. It offers valuable and unique insights in all aspects of playing together – musically, instrumentally and psychologically.

Roeland Jagers was a founding member of the Rubens Quartet. Currently he is a member of the Rubens Consort, and also of Metamorphoses, an international trio (clarinet/viola/piano) which released a highly acclaimed debut album. In 2020, Roeland and his wife, violinist Sarah Kapustin, made a duo album titled Reflections.

Date:  Saturday, May 8th, at 16:00h
Place:  Online, Zoom (registered participants will receive a link)
Language:  The lecture will be given in English
Costs:  Voluntary financial donation, we suggest €10,-
Registration: Use form below

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The Pleasant sound of Pitch – workshop with Karin Dolman

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After her lecture on fingerings, Karin Dolman, viola teacher at Codarts University of Arts Rotterdam (and DVS board member) will guide you though the struggle of practicing on intonation.
 
This lecture will be an interactive talk with questions being answered and problems hopefully being solved!
 
For 27 years, Karin Dolman played in the DoelenKwartet where she played mainly contemporary music. This experience made her believe in making the impossible possible and never give up. She currently performs regularly with her “partner in crime”, pianist Caecilia Boschman – as a duo, but also with wind instruments and singers. 
 
As an amateur horn player (for 33 years) playing in an amateur orchestra, Karin knows the medal from both sides, and has taught her how musicians find pleasure in making music or the desire to get the highest out of their instrument. 

Date:  Saturday, April 10th, at 15:00h
Place:  Online, Zoom (registered participants will receive a link)
Language:  The workshop will be given in English
Costs:  Voluntary financial donation, we suggest €10,-
Registration: Use form below

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Report from DVS “Health week” workshops

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In the past week, the DVS has taken to the new online medium with a “doubleheader” of workshops related to avoiding / reducing / treating the long term health issues associated with viola playing.

The first workshop, poetically titled “Finding Fabulous Freedom (with a viola in your hand)” was brought to us by Ásdis Valdimarsdóttir, with insights derived and developed from Body Mapping and Alexander Technique.

Ásdis worked through a number of examples relating to posture, left and right arm motions, based on mechanical principles of (skeletal and muscular) anatomy. She demonstrated clearly awkward and potentially unhealthy practices (some of which, sadly, are dangerously close to certain “style schools” of violin/viola technique) compared to natural and mechanically balanced alternatives. Accessories to her presentation included various illustrations from slides, and even a good old-fashioned dummy skeleton to help make her points. She also got the crowd in motion with exercises, with and without a viola. It was quite a sight to behold all participants in their tiny digital viewports performing these exercises!

The second workshop followed one week later, presented by Laura Kok: “How to deal with injuries – Medical empowerment for viola players“. Laura is an orthopaedic surgeon specialised in prevention and treatment of musicians’ injuries, and she has completed a full conservatory viola degree as well.

She gave a very interesting overview of the various health issues commonly seen for instrumental musicians (and violists in particular), ranging from physical to “psychosocial” issues – including a very telling comparison of the parallels and differences between musicians and athletes. In particular, athletes have much better medical and psychological support in general, and in the musical world it is even somewhat of a taboo to admit to or even discuss injuries (this last point was brought up by Ásdis as well).

Laura highlighted the orchestra musician in particular as someone who has a very low degree of personal influence on his/her working environment – being consistently dictated when, what, and how to play. This lack of control puts the musician at considerable risk of stress, burnout and injuries. And a musician’s career is much longer than an athlete’s, a full lifetime of sustained “wear-down” of their bodies. Not to mention stress related symptoms such as anxiety, sleeplessness, etc.

Both workshops were widely appreciated by those who attended.

For those of you who missed it: If you are interested in more details about these workshops, please contact us at mail@dutchviolasociety.nl – we will gladly send you more information, including links to recordings of the workshops.

This was the first time we tried to do interactive workshops online via zoom. During these workshops we had as many as 56 participants simultaneously online in the session, logging in even from overseas (USA, UK, etc.). This immediately verified to us that we have a truly international reach – so different from the physical and inherently “local” events of pre-COVID times.

Kristofer Skaug, DVS

How to deal with injuries – Medical empowerment for viola players

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Laura Kok is an orthopaedic surgeon specialised in treating injured musicians. After obtaining her masters degree in both medicine and viola (Royal Conservatory, The Hague), she continued to combine her experience of these two working areas.  After finishing her PhD ‘Musculoskeletal health in musicians: Epidemiology and biomechanics’ in 2018, she initiated the ‘musicispreekuur’, an outpatient clinic dedicated to provide high level healthcare for musicians in the Spaarne Hospital (Haarlem).

Injuries are part of a professional career in music, especially if you play the viola. Of all instruments present in the symphonic orchestra, the viola is the one which brings the highest risk of getting injured: up to 90% of the viola players has at least one injury every year. So it is time to accept that injuries come together with the instrument and to start working on how we could optimally deal with them.

The aim of the workshop is to empower you to take the lead in creating a healthy playing environment. During the workshop we will work on the following topics:

– What is an injury and why do we get injured? What injuries are common among viola players?

– How to influence the occurrence and course of an injury? What is the relation between body and mind with respect to injuries? And how can we use this knowledge to prevent problems?

– And finally, we will talk on how to make sure you are getting the most optimal care in case you are injured. How can we collaborate with healthcare providers, in order to optimise the results of the treatment?

Date:  Saturday, March 13th, at 14:00h
Place:  Online, Jitsi Meet (registered participants will receive a link)
Language:  The workshop will be given in English
Costs:  Voluntary financial donation, we suggest €10,-
Registration: Use form below

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P.S. You may also find the following related workshop interesting:
March 6th, 2021: “Finding Fabulous Freedom“, with Asdis Valdimarsdottir

Finding Fabulous Freedom – with a Viola in your Hands!

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Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir currently teaches viola and chamber music at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. We are happy and proud to announce a new workshop led by her, with the title…

FINDING FABULOUS FREEDOM – WITH A VIOLA IN YOUR HANDS!

This will be a workshop on looking for freedom from pain and preventing injuries when we play.  Most of us have some idea on how our skeletons and muscles are designed and how to use them to our best advantage- but even so the statistics tell us that a very high percentage of all musicians suffer from injuries of one sort or another at some point in their careers.  Some get over them- but many don’t – and it is a subject that musicians are often shy to open up about.  No one wants to get a reputation for being injured or weak….

The good news is that it is very much possible to get over existing injuries in the long term and, of course, to prevent them.

I used to be a regular on the local physiotherapists table with pain in my neck and left shoulder; it helped in the short term but kept them employed! It was not until I discovered Body Mapping and Alexander Technique that I managed to truly get better and now I have not seen the physiotherapist for many years!

I would like to introduce you to what I have learned and help you find a way to injury free and happy music making.  We will do lots of movement explorations and experiments. Have your instrument handy and make sure you have room to swing your arms around!

Date:  Saturday, March 6th, at 16:00h
Place:  Online, Jitsi Meet (registered participants will receive a link)
Language:  The workshop will be given in English
Logistics:  Have your viola handy for exercises
Costs:  Voluntary financial donation – we suggest €10,-
Registration: Use form below

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P.S. You may also find the following related workshop interesting:
March 13th, 2021: “How to deal with injuries”, with Laura Kok

Masterclassweek Dordrecht 11-14 augustus

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Bij het festival Zomerconcerten Dordrecht 2020 worden tussen 11-14 augustus as. diverse Masterclasses en Workshops voor altviolisten gegeven. De Masterclasses staan open voor zowel jong talent, conservatoriumstudenten en amateurs. Er is geen pianist aanwezig, eventueel kun je je eigen pianist(e) meenemen.

De docenten zijn (in alfabetische volgorde, en van links naar rechts op de foto):
Anna den Herder, Emlyn Stam, Karin Dolman, Lisa Eggen, Marc Sabbah en Ursula Skaug

(meer over de achtergrond van de docenten vindt u onderaan deze pagina)

De INSCHRIJVING IS INMIDDELS GESLOTEN (10 augustus), maar je bent natuurlijk meer dan welkom als toehoorder! Hier is het programma:

Dinsdag 11 / Woensdag 12 augustus:
Programma afgelast (onvoldoende inshcrijvingen)

Donderdag 13 augustus, Trinitatiskapel (Vriesestraat 22):
1400-1445u Masterclass Anna den Herder
    Wilker Paredes (Codarts): Bruch Romanze / Schumann Märchenbilder
1445-1530u Masterclass Lisa Eggen
    Lea van der Heijden (Codarts): Brahms sonate no.1, deel 2
1530-1615u Masterclass Anna den Herder
    Anabel Avendano (Codarts): Vieuxtemps sonata
1615-1700u Masterclass Lisa Eggen
    Rotterdam Viola Quartet (Souman, Paredes, vd Heijden, Avendano)

Vrijdag 14 augustus, Augustijnenkerk (Voorstraat 216 – ingang via Hof) :
1400-1445u Masterclass Marc Sabbah
    Judith Souman (Codarts): Bach suite (ntb)
1500-1545u Masterclass Marc Sabbah
    Francesca Wiersma (NMH Oslo): Telemann Fantasie no.1
1600-1645u Masterclass Marc Sabbah
    Nikolas Altieri (Codarts): Hoffmeister concert, deel 1

De rest van de vrijdagmiddag en -avond is gevuld met zuiver altvioolmuziek in het Trinitatiskapel (onderdeel van de Zomerconcerten-reeks):
Eerst een concert om 1700u van de “Viola Sisters” Skaug, “Canons and Concepts”.
En ‘s avonds om 19:30u speelt het altvioolkwartet “Four of a Kind”,  een soort “docentenconcert” van deze masterclassweek, o.a. nieuwe composities
voor 4 altviolen geschreven voor het compositieconcours “4viola” in 2018.

 

OVER DE DOCENTEN

Anna Magdalena den Herder is door haar mooie warme klank en natuurlijke muzikale overtuigingskracht een van Nederlands meest geliefde altviolisten. Door haar communicatieve spel valt Anna op, zowel in haar baan als plaatsvervangend aanvoerder bij het Nederlands Kamerorkest als in haar rijke kamermuziekleven ernaast. Ze speelt en speelde in verschillende hooggewaardeerde ensembles als de Amsterdam Chamber Soloists, het Goldberg Strijktrio en op festivals als Holland Festival, Southwell Music Festival, Delft Chamber Music Festival, Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival in Den Haag, de Strijkkwartet Biennale, en de Cello Biennale.
In 2018 maakte Anna haar debuut als soliste in de Grote Zaal van het Concertgebouw Amsterdam met het zesde Brandenburgconcert van J.S. Bach samen met het Nederlands Kamerokest. In dat jaar soleerde zij ook samen met Saskia Otto in de Sinfonia Concertante van W.A. Mozart en speelde zij het Altviool Concert van W. Walton met het Sweelinck Orkest.Als winnares van het Nationale Altvioolconcours werd zij dé complete altvioliste en musicienne genoemd, ook werd haar, als eerste altvioliste, de Kersjes van Groenekan beurs toegekend in 2009.
Als gastaanvoerder speelt zij onder andere bij het Nederlands Philharmonish Orkest, Nederlands Kamerorkest, Residentie Orkest, Het Gelders Orkest en Philharmonie Zuid Nederland.Anna bespeelt een altviool gebouwd door Marino Capicchioni in Rimini (Italie) 1965, haar ter beschikking gesteld door het Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds. Haar strijkstok is gemaakt door H. L. Gillet, deze aankoop is mede mogelijk gemaakt door Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument. [Meer weten? ga naar Annas website]

Altviolist Emlyn Stam is actief als kamermusicus en solist en treedt op door heel Nederland, Europa en daarbuiten. Hij is sinds 2014 artistiek leider van het New European Ensemble een internationaal ensemble voor hedendaagse en 20e eeuwse muziek. Verder speelt hij regelmatig concerten als lid van het Ysaÿe Trio. De eerste cd van het trio verscheen in 2013 op de DRC label en een tweede CD met pianiste Hanna Shybayeva kwam in 2015 uit.
In 2019 behaalde hij zijn doctoraat bij de Universiteit Leiden voor een artistiek onderzoek naar historische geluidsopnames en het toepassen van deze speelstijl in hedendaagse uitvoeringen.
Emlyn heeft vele concerten voor de Nederlandse radio en televisie gespeeld. Hij was solist bij het Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra d’Espinho en het Schönberg Ensemble. Hij treed vaak op bij diverse festivals waaronder het Kuhmo Festival in Finland, Sound of Stockhom, Connect Festival, Giverny Chamber Music Festival, Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Utrecht en het Grachtenfestival.
Hij heeft zeven jaar als plaatsvervangend aanvoerder altviool bij het Residentie Orkest in Den Haag gewerkt. Hij werkte als gast-aanvoerder bij Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh National Orchestra, Philharmonie Zuidnederland en Opera de Toulon. Als docent wordt Emlyn regelmatig gevraagd voor lessen en masterclasses voor altviool en kamermuziek.  Hij gaf lessen aan conservatoria in Nederland, Estland en China.
Emlyn voltooide in 2006 zijn Bacheloropleiding aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium en in September 2008 zijn Masteropleiding bij ditzelfde instituut. Hij studeerde bij Ferdinand Erblich en Vladimir Mendelssohn. Hij heeft masterclasses gevolgd bij Pinchas Zukerman, Michael Tree, Yuri Bashmet, Tabea Zimmerman en Kim Kashkashian. [Meer weten? ga naar Emlyns website]

Karin Dolman (1967) is docente altviool aan het Rotterdams conservatorium Codarts. Een jaar geleden nam zij afscheid van het grote podium wat zij veelvuldig besteeg met het DoelenKwartet. In de kleinere entourage van de kamermuziek voelt zij zich het meeste thuis. De interactie met het publiek is voor haar van groot belang. Daarin stimuleert zij ook zoveel mogelijk haar collega’s en studenten.
Karin richtte in 2012 de Dutch Viola Society op, en was in 2018 artistiek leider van het International Viola Congress in Rotterdam. Ze is in 2019 toegetreden tot het bestuur van de International Viola Society, de overkoepelende organisatie van de altvioolspelende wereld. [Meer weten? ga naar Karins website]

Altvioliste Lisa Eggen (1994) is vanaf jonge leeftijd actief als veelzijdig musicus. Haar spel wordt door velen omschreven als expressief, uitgesproken en communicatief. Als prijswinnaar van verschillende concoursen gaf ze concerten op (inter)nationale podia, festivals, radio en televisie. Naast haar solistische optredens is ze zeer actief als kamermusicus en als remplaçant in orkesten. Haar liefde voor 20ste-eeuws en hedendaags repertoire ontwikkelde zich o.a. tijdens projecten met Asko|Schönberg en het DoelenKwartet. Ze combineert dit repertoire regelmatig met andere disciplines zoals muziektheater. Lesgeven is voor haar een grote passie en naast haar eigen alt&vioollespraktijk in Oud-Beijerland en Nieuwegein zal ze vanaf september 2020 ook werkzaam zijn als hoofdvakdocent altviool aan Fontys Academy of Music and Performance Arts in Tilburg. [Meer weten? ga naar Lisas website]

Marc Sabbah is een solo altviolist, een kamermuzikant, professor en sinds 2012 ook de solo violist van het Belgian National Orchestra. Marc werd door de legendarische dirigent Zubin Mehta beschreven als “een schitterende altviolist” en wordt sindsdien regelmatig uitgenodigd als eerste violist van het Israeli Philharmonic. Sinds september 2017 is hij ook gastprofessor aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium van Bergen. Cum Laude afgestudeerd aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam en winnar van het (Nederlands) Nationaal Altvioolconcours 2013. Zijn recente prijzen omvatten de 1e prijs tijdens de Rising Stars Grand Prix-muziekcompetitie in 2016 waar hij een solo uitvoering bracht in de Berlin Philharmonic-zaal, evenals de 1e hoofdprijs op de Manhattan International Music Competition met een recital in Carnegie Hall. Door de vele concerten die hij met Europese orkesten gespeeld heeft, maakt Marc naam als een getalenteerde, muzikale kracht van zijn generatie.
Door het geven van masterclasses in samenwerking met de Dutch Viola Society, het Brussels Chamber Music Festival en het Athens State Orchestra zet Marc zich ook intensief in voor het doceren en het overbrengen van zijn liefde voor muziek aan zowel jonge muzikanten als legio toeschouwers. In 2011 trad Marc Sabbah samen met Ivry Gitlis op tijdens het Verbier Festival in Zwitserland. Sindsdien heeft Ivry Gitlis Marc’s uitvoering van het Leo Smit-altvioolconcert bijgewoond aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium van Bergen waar hij Marc de klinkende titel ‘De Paganini van de altviool’ schonk.

Zijn streven naar perfectie in zijn muziek bracht hem ertoe om te studeren bij grote artiesten als Pinchas Zukerman, Lawrence Power, Kim Kashkashian, de barokcellist Anner Bijlsma en Nobuko Imai. Marc heeft opgetreden op festivals doorheen heel Europa, Israël, Oekraïne, Rusland, de Verenigde Staten en Canada. [Meer weten? ga naar Marcs website]

Ursula Skaug (1997) begon met altvioolles bij Julia Dinerstein aan het Hellendaal  Instituut in Rotterdam. Ze studeert nu in het Master-programma aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag bij Mikhail Zemtsov. Ursula heeft masterclasses gevolgd bij (onder andere) Jennifer Stumm, Francien Schatborn, Asdis Valdimarsdottir, Gavriel Lipkind, Alexander Zemtsov, Geneviève Strosser, Isabelle van Keulen en Nobuko Imai.
Ursula won de hoofdprijs van de Maassluise Muziekweek, de eerste prijs bij het Britten Altvioolconcours 2013 en een tweede prijs bij het Prinses Christina Concours 2016 te Rotterdam. Ze heeft gesoleerd met het Concerto Grosso Ensemble, Britten Jeugd Strijkorkest, het Delfts Symfonie Orkest en het Tollens Ensemble. In de zomer van 2018 was ze aanvoerder van het Nationaal Jeugdorkest (NJO).
Ursula heeft veel kamermuziekervaring opgedaan, onder andere bij het Akoesticum Talent Programme in 2018, waar ze gecoacht werd door onder andere Jean-Bernard Pommier, David Dolan, Jan Talich, Malcolm Singer en Gregor Horsch.
Ursula speelt op een altviool die voor haar gebouwd is door Daniël Royé in 2017. Ze vormt samen met haar zus Sunniva het altvioolduo “the Viola Sisters”. [Meer weten? ga naar Ursulas website]