Eva de Vries (1995) started playing the violin at the age of 7.
When she was 12, she was accepted to The School for Young Talent of The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she studied with Mireille van der Wart. After successfully graduating from the School for Young Talent, she began her studies for her Bachelor’s degree at The Royal Conservatoire, where she studied with Peter Brunt and Philippe Graffin. She is currently studying for her Master’s degree with Levon Chilingirian at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she received the Howard Davis Scholarship. Furthermore, the VSBFonds and the Bernhard Cultuurfonds have also made it possible for her to study at the Academy.
Eva frequently attends masterclasses and summer courses, such as the Peter de Grote festival (2009), Musica Mundi (2012), MusicAlp (2013, 2014, 2015) and Rencontres Musicales d'Enghien (2016).
She has had masterclasses from i.a. Ivry Gitlis, Pavel Vernikov, Dong-Suk Kang, Jacqueline Ross, Stephan Picard, Roman Patočka, Marieke Blankensteijn, Vera Beths, Theodora Geraets, Coosje Wijzenbeek, Joris van Rijn and Eva Stegeman.
She has won prizes in the Netherlands and abroad. She was a finalist (2014, 2015) in the International Queen Sophie Charlotte competition in Germany. In 2013 she received the Splendor prize in the Dutch National Violin Competition (Davina van Wely) and in 2012 she was a first prize winner in the Princess Christina Competition.
She has played in multiple professional orchestras including the Rotterdam Philharmonic (2017), the Metropole Orchestra (2016) and the Hague Philharmonic (2015).
Eva is an enthusiastic chamber musician, playing in various ensembles and giving concerts in venues such as the Concertgebouw.
In April and May 2016 she gave recitals with the Brahms French Horn Trio in Canada and West America (invited by the Dutch-American Foundation and the Dutch embassies in Canada, as prize winners of The Princess Christina Competition).
In September 2016 she founded The New String Trio. In March 2017 they won the Dutch ‘Grand Chamber Music Prize’, followed by concerts in various festivals and on Radio 4.
Since October 2017 she has been the first violinist of the Bloomsbury Quartet, founded at the Royal Academy.
