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AYCA Winner 2008 |
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Sara Deborah Struntz - Violin |
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Click here for Sara's repertoire list.
German-born violinist Sara Deborah Struntz, 24, is enjoying a wide-ranging performing career as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician, playing both on modern and period instruments. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2004 with First Class Honours, and completed her postgraduate studies with Natalia Boyarsky and Adrian Butterfield (baroque) at the Royal College of Music with a Masters of Music and Artist Diploma, as a scholar of various German and English foundations including the Leverhulme and Amaryllis Fleming trusts. During 2007/08 she was appointed the Phoebe Benham Junior Fellow at the RCM, and since January 2008 she is an Assistant teacher for violin at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
Recently she appeared as a soloist with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra, RCM Baroque Orchestra and Vogtland Philharmonie at venues including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Schubert-Saal and St James Piccadilly. She was invited to various festivals across the UK, Germany and Italy including Fraenkischer Sommer, York Early Music Festival and London Handel Festival and participated in masterclasses across the globe such as IMS Prussia Cove, Keshet Eilon and Carl-Flesch-Academy, learning with eminent musicians like Yehudi Menuhin, Yfrah Neaman, Ana Chumachenco, Andras Keller and Gabor Takacs-Nagy as well as Rachel Podger, Catherine Mackintosh, Robert Levin and Sir Roger Norrington. With organizations live music now! and Crescendo Sara has performed in hospitals, care homes and prisons and was involved in the Wigmore Hall Education and LSO St Luke's Discovery Series.
She broadcast on German radio Bayerischer Rundfunk and recorded a CD with works by Mozart, Brahms and Bloch together with pianist Stephen Gutman. She has won several prizes in solo and chamber music including the Eastbourne Young Soloist Competition 2006, Richard III prize 2006 for Early Music at the RCM, Lions Prize Nürnberg 2000 and South-West German Chamber Music Competition 1998. In February 2008 she won a Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists by Making Music leading to engagements for British music societies and orchestras in the 2008-2010 seasons.
A versatile chamber music player, Sara Deborah performs recitals throughout Europe in the Duo Timossi with her husband, pianist Alessandro Timossi, and appearances with her string quartet Chiaroscuro and baroque group Ensemble Amaranthos have included the Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Music, St Martins-in-the-Fields and a BBC 3 broadcast from The Sage, Gateshead. She regularly works with the UK's leading baroque ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlgihtenment, the Sixteen, Florilegium, La Serenissima and Dunedin Consort, and is a member and leader of the second violins of the 2008 European Union Baroque Orchestra under Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Enrico Onofri.
Being aware that every given talent bears a responsibility, Sara Deborah strives for bringing music's message and beauty to life and reaching to her listeners' hearts.
"..tones of understanding clarity and singing elegance the likes of which one rarely meets in this profession.." Rhein-Main-Zeitung
"..the instrumental voice of an angel with far reaching capacities..that is however always employed at the service of the performed works.."
Nürnberger Nachrichten
"..staggering professionalism..some beautifully elegant playing.."
Early Music Review
".. a most outstanding talent, both musically and instrumentally..a player of great individuality and imagination, great facility and ease in her playing... an unusually mature, thinking musician of insight and instinct."
Yfrah Neaman,
late Prof at the GSMD
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Content last updated:
30 October 2008 |
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