15 Facts About Liza Ferschtman

Liza Ferschtman was born on 1979 and is a Dutch classical violinist who appears internationally, both as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music.

Liza Ferschtman received the Nederlandse Muziekprijs in 2006 and has directed the Delft Chamber Music Festival since 2007.

Liza Ferschtman studied later at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Qui van Woerdekom, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers, at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno.

Liza Ferschtman has appeared as a soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and the Bremer Philharmoniker.

Liza Ferschtman played with the Prague Philharmonia, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Student Orchestra and the Sweelinck Orchestra.

Liza Ferschtman has collaborated with conductors such as Frans Bruggen, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Ivan Fischer, Neeme Jarvi, Lev Markiz, Shlomo Mintz, Mendi Rodan, Leonard Slatkin and Jaap van Zweden, among others.

In 2005 and 2006 Liza Ferschtman performed the complete violin sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven in the Concertgebouw with pianist Inon Barnatan.

Since 2007 Liza Ferschtman has been artistic director of the Delft Chamber Music Festival, which was founded by the violinist Isabelle van Keulen in 1996.

Liza Ferschtman has added vocal music and contemporary music to the program, such as in 2016 Weill's Die sieben Todsunden, a new string octet and a concert of the Tallis Scholars.

The different violin tunings required Liza Ferschtman to have seven violins on stage; the performance was deemed a "rare tour de force".

In 1994 Liza Ferschtman was awarded first prize at the competition Iordens Viooldagen.

Liza Ferschtman's first recording was in 2004; chamber music with the pianist Bas Verheijden, including Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata, Poulenc's Violin Sonata, Debussy's Violin Sonata, and music by Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovitch.

Liza Ferschtman recorded in 2007 Beethoven's Violin Sonata in G major, Op.

Liza Ferschtman's tone was described as "nimble but never narrow", and her playing as "infusing every phrase with life and energy".

Liza Ferschtman recorded in 2010 Beethoven's Violin Concerto and his Romances with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend.