Description
With a wonderfully wide variety of interests and talents, Judith de Haas follows her life as a violinist internationally whilst living in Berlin. She is active in the field of chamber music, orchestral playing and plays solo recitals regularly. Her playing characterizes a transparent but warm sound and a very interesting musicality.
The season 2017/2018 got an exciting start-off with the Zermatt Festival Academy in Switzerland where Judith played together with young professional musicians and the Sharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker. This followed up the season that Judith was part of the the Academy Program of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, where she worked together with Bernard Haitink and Andras Schiff.
As a chamber music musician, Judith has played together with musicians such as pianist Leonardo Reyna, Daan Boertien, Carolin Widmann, Frank Reinecke, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Silvia Simunescu, Alex Stadler and Lahav Shani, in several festivals all around the world, including Cuba and the United States of America.
Her qualities as an ensemble player come with leadership and very perceptive openness. These marks Judith could also develop as a guest player of the ensemble Spira Mirabilis, which is an Italian chamber orchestra that studies orchestral pieces intensively without the lead of a conductor.
The ensemble-leadership also got shape as Judith was principal 2nd violinist in the European Union Youth Orchestra of which she has been a member from 2012 to 2016. She was concertmaster of EUYO at Europe Day 2015. Being a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 2012-2016 brought Judith in touch with other world leading conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Via EUYO Judith also got involved in setting up the Global Exchange Project for which she travelled to Detroit and Shanghai as an Ambassador of the Orchestra. Apart from that she has been a tutor at the European Music Campus in August 2014 at Grafenegg, Austria.
As a soloist Judith made her first appearance on the age of 15 with Mozart’s 3rd violin concerto and at the age of 17 with Bruch’s Violin Concerto. In the years after she was a regular solo-guest of the Alveare Orchestra in the Netherlands. In January 2017 she performed as a soloist with the successful Dutch Euregio Youth Orchestra lead by Hans Casteleyn.
Judith was born in the Netherlands and has studied with Carolin Widmann in Leipzig, Michael Erxleben in Berlin, with Wouter Vossen in Amsterdam and with Annemieke Corstens in Tilburg. She followed individual classes with violinists such as Andrei Baranov, Vadim Repin, Herman Krebbers and Christian Tetzlaff.
Currently, Judith is also enrolled in a Master’s degree International Management, where she focusses her academic curriculum on managing the arts, taking part in classes both at SRH University Berlin and École d’Art et de Culture in Paris.
