Barbara Doll Is a Young Artist Who Is Appearing on the International Music Scene Both As

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Barbara Doll is a young artist who is appearing on the international music scene both as a soloist and chamber music player. She has given concerts at such venues as the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican in London, the Philharmonie in Berlin, Gasteig in Munich, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and Brucknerhaus in Linz, and has been invited numerous times to the Schleswig Holstein Festival and the Ravinia Festival, USA.As a soloist she has appeared e.g. with the English Chamber Orchestra (Concertos by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and others) and the European Union Chamber Orchestra. Together with Nigel Kennedy she has performed the J.S. Bach Double Concerto. Her Wigmore Hall recital was favourably reviewed by The Strad magazine.

Barbara Doll was born in Freising near Munich. Her teachers were Ana Chumachenko in Munich, Thomas Zehetmair and Thomas Brandis in Berlin and David Takeno in London. She also took part in many master classes with Sandor Vegh, Gerhard Schulz, Ivry Gitlis, Gyorgy Kurtag and Josef Gingold. She was scholarship and promotion-prize holder of Villa Musica Mainz and has partnered such artists as Thomas Brandis, Miriam Fried ,Homero Francesch, Adrian Oetiker, Filippo Gamba, Silke Avenhaus, Claude Starck, Christoph Schiller, Dimitri Ashkenazy and Dieter Flury. Steven Isserlis has invited her several times to his chamber music festival in Prussia Cove, England. For some years now she has formed a duo with the pianistand Martha-Argerich-Prizewinner Cristina Marton, theirCD with works by Enescu, Schubert, Schoenberg and Henze has recently been released.

Barbara Doll is a laureate of the International Schubert Competition Graz, especially of the Schubert Prize in the Franz Schubert-Year 1997, and of the Kuhmo International Duo Competition, Finland. Apart from numerous Radio and TV recordings both at home and abroad she has made CD recordings of chamber works by Schreker, Schoenberg and Mendelssohn.

Barbara Doll hasled prestigious chamber orchestras such as the English Chamber Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble Resonanz and the German Kammerakademie Neuss , most of them she also directed withoutconductor. For manyyears she played in the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under such conductors as Claudio Abbado and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Barbara Doll is regularly giving masterclasses , since 2004 sheis Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Hochschule der KuensteBern/ Switzerland and is living in Zurich.