§ 00 · Biography
"Her playing has the power to move you and to leave you wanting to hear more."
International Record Review
Dutch violinist Frederieke Saeijs rose to international prominence when she won the First Grand Prix, together with several special distinctions, at the Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris (2005). Since then she has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, the Russian National Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Residentie Orkest of The Hague and the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, under conductors including Jaap van Zweden, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Spivakov, Vassily Sinaiski and Christoph Poppen. A passionate chamber musician, she performs regularly with the Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze and the Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanović, with whom she has played at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Muziekgebouw in Eindhoven and the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf; in Spain she was an Associate Artist of the Quantum Ensemble, then in residence at the Auditorio de Tenerife, and she is a regular guest of the Delft Chamber Music Festival. She has recorded Eugène Ysaÿe's six Sonatas for solo violin for Linn Records, as well as the violin-and-piano sonatas of Ravel, Respighi, Granados and Weber for Naxos.
As a concertmaster she has worked, among others, with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra (with Jörg Widmann) and the Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias (with Carlos Miguel Prieto, Joana Carneiro and Nuno Coelho). Committed to the training of young talent, she is professor of violin (principal study) at Codarts, the Rotterdam Conservatory, and previously taught at the Centro Superior de Música Katarina Gurska and at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio in Madrid, as well as giving masterclasses in Germany, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and the United States. "For me it is essential to pass on the inner fire," she says, "not only the passion for my profession, but also the craft itself, in all its nuances." Born and raised in The Hague, she trained at the Royal Conservatoire of her home city with Lex Korff de Gidts, Peter Brunt and Jaring Walta (1998–2004) and completed her studies with Mauricio Fuks at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University (2004–2008). She plays the "Ex-Reine-Elisabeth" violin by Pietro Guarneri (Venice, 1725) with a bow by Eugène Sartory, both on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.