Hoei Lien The

Hoei Lien The, Dutch violinist, enjoys a busy career playing in different chamber music projects, theatre projects and solo. She performs regularly in The Netherlands, Great Britain and Switzerland. Hoei Lien is principal violin and managing director of the Silk Street Sinfonia, an unconducted chamber orchestra with a core group of twelve strings. The Silk Street Sinfonia is made up of international young musicians who met in London, many of whom are laureates of international competitions and all of whom enjoy busy careers. They recently went on their annual Switzerland tour to play a series of concerts for their sponsors. In this tour Hoei Lien appeared as a soloist playing “Winter” of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. In December 2015 she was invited to play Bruch violin concerto with the Dutch orchestra Sempre Crescendo. Hoei Lien has a special interest in combining art forms, so called cross-arts projects. She has recently produced and played Histoire du Soldat by Stravinsky/Ramuz with a full cast for which she received the Guildhall School of Music and Drama coLABorate award 2015. Another cross-arts project Hoei Lien is involved in, is “Salon Musical”, a programme of music and theatre which captures the spirit, elegance and splendour of a 19th century Parisian musical soiree. Hoei Lien is part of many different chamber music ensembles. She was the founder of the Fourier piano trio in The Netherlands with whom she performed throughout The Netherlands from 2009 until 2015. They also appeared live on National Radio4 and Radio West. From May 2015 onwards she is part of Ansermet Ensemble, a flexible chamber music ensemble with whom she goes on tour to the French part of Switzerland regularly. Since summer 2015 Hoei Lien started playing in the Verter piano trio with Marc Verter and Jaixin Lloyd Webber. Recently she was asked by Sony Classical UK to play live in BBC Radio3 "In Tune" with Craig Leon playing tracks live from the album "Bach to Moog" to replace Jennifer Pike. This led to another collaboration with Craig Leon on his composition “Nommos”, a mixture of electronic music, voice and string quartet. Hoei Lien has played with many renowned artists such as Zakhar Bron, Frans Helmerson, Boris Brovstyn, Candida Thompson and Andras Andorjan. Through the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague Hoei Lien has worked closely with members of Residentie Orkest/ The Hague Philharmonic. At Guildhall she performed alongside members of the London Symphony Orchestra. Hoei Lien has worked with many renowned conductors among others, Bernhard Haitink, Valery Gergiev, Lawrence Foster, Antonio Pappano, Edward Gardner, Gianandrea Noseda, Pietari Inkinen, Jaime Martin, Etienne Siebens, Péter Csaba, Jac van Steen, Reinbert de Leeuw and James Gaffigan. Hoei Lien has won several prizes at various national competitions in The Netherlands, amongst others the National Iordens Viooldagen, the International Gergiev-festival competition, the National Davina van Wely Concours, the Prinses Christina Concours and Stichting Jong Muziektalent Nederland. Alongside these competitions, Hoei Lien has taken part in many festivals, among which the Apeldoorn International Masterclasses (The Netherlands), Bowdoin Music Festival (USA), Porziano Musica (Italy), MusicAlp (France), Aurora Music Festival (Sweden) and Prussia Cove International Masterclasses (UK) and Encuentro de Santander (Spain). Hoei Lien has followed lessons and masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, Mihaela Martin, Levon Chilingirian, Hagai Shaham, Gordan Nikolitch, Liana Isakadze, Frederieke Saëys, Rachel Podger, Moshe Hammer, Lars Anders Tomter, Alexander Zemtsov, Gérard Caussé and Frans Helmerson. Hoei Lien got her BMus diploma (Hons) cum laude from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 2012 where she studied with Peter Brunt, Ilona Sie Dhian Ho and Philippe Graffin. She obtained a MPerf from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2014 (for which she received the generous support from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Ars Donandi and Stichting Niemeijer) where she studied with Jacqueline Ross. For the academic year of 2014/2015, Hoei Lien was offered the prestigious Guildhall Artists Fellowship. Hoei Lien is very grateful to Chaconne Fine Violins from Japan to have a Richaume bow on loan.