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Helena Winkelman
9+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposerswitzerlandviolinJuma
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Helena Winkelman, born 1974 in Schaffhausen, is one of the most promising young Swiss violinists and composers. Besides of her activity as a recitalist with a repertoire of over 270 major works, she composes and often performs her own music. . In 1997 she won the first prize at the International Andrea Postaccini Violin Competition in Italy. Other prizes include the Walther Bringolf Award and a Chamber Music Award from the "Music Academy of Heidelberg - Mannheim" and in 2001 the International Pro Musicis Award in Paris. Subsequently she was invited to give debuts at the Salle Cortot in Paris, Pickman Hall, Boston and Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, New York. As a soloist Helena Winkelman played with different Orchestras in Switzerland, Germany and Rumania and recorded for SDR Stuttgart, Germany (Radio and Television), DRS II and Radio WBGH Boston. Since 1996 she is a regular guest at the international chamber music festival "IMS Prussia Cove", in England and from 2001 until 2004 she has been invited to participate in the International Music Festival "Young artists in concert", Davos, Switzerland. In 2003 she performed at the International Music Festival of Lucerne with Thomas Demenga, in 2011 she was invited to the Swedish Bastad Festival. In January 2002 she joined the Camerata variabile Basel, a prestigious Swiss chamber ensemble as their first violinist and one year later she became part of the artistic committee of the group. Since 2011 she is now the artistic leader an
top songs
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Atlas: III. Perpetuum Mobile - Ladon the Dragon
712Atlas: I. Passacaglia - Atlas and Heracles
203Atlas: II. Adagietto fluido - The Golden Apples in The Garden of The Hesperides
144Sonett 74
115Immediation
86Tides
87Trois danses suisses: II. Valse hyptnotique
78Ciaccona for Violin Solo
69Concerto for Two Recorders and Strings
610Trois danses suisses: I. Marche des maraudeurs
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