Masterclass for Viola – 01.- 04.06.2025 live in Beethoven Conservatorium

Masterclass for Viola – 01.- 04.06.2025 live in Tegelen / The Netherlands with Prof. Tatjana Masurenko und Yuri Bondarev.

📆 When:  June 1st – 4th, 2025
Where: Beethoven Conservatorium, Venloseweg 5, 5931GR Tegelen, The Netherlands
📚 4 lessons per participant — 2 with each professor!
🎶 Grand Finale Concert: June 4th 2025.
🎶 Piano accompanist — a professional piano accompanist will be provided during the master class and for the performances.
📚Deadline: 30th April 2025.
📚Passive participation 20,- € per day, payable directly on the day of participation.

Registrations are considered according to the date of receipt. All
participants that are accepted will be notifified.

Tatjana Masurenko is one of the leading viola players of our time. Her distinctive style is shaped by her expressive playing and her thorough and intensive musical studies. Dedicated to promoting young musicians, she has been professor of viola at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig since 2002, and in the same position at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Sion, Switzerland, since 2019. She gives master classes in Europe and America and is artistic director of the International Viola Camp in Iznik (Turkey).
In June 2022 she was appointed by the famous Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, USA, as Professor of Viola and Chamber Music (Richard Colburn Chair for Viola and Chamber Music)

Many of her students have built successful careers and travel the world as soloists, professors, principal violists in major orchestras and as chamber musicians.
Her teaching style is built on the St. Petersburg tradition of the 19th/early 20th century and merges with the new ideas and sensibilities of the 20th/21st century, especially in the interpretation of Baroque and Classical music.
Tatjana Masurenko plays a viola by P. Testore, Milan 1756 and a specially built instrument by Jürgen Manthey, Leipzig 2017, who has developed new acoustic and tonal construction methods that clearly distinguish his instruments from others. She changes the bows to match the style.

Yuri Bondarev
As a soloist and chamber musician, Yuri Bondarev has performed at notable venues including the Vienna Musikverein, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, and the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. During the 2009/10 season, he made his debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Milan’s Sala Verdi, performing Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto under the direction of Kirill Stankow.
Bondarev is regularly invited as a guest principal violist by leading German orchestras. His chamber music activities include performances with the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Quartet and a several-year tenure with the Scardanelli Quartet in Hamburg.

In addition to his active concert career, Yuri Bondarev gives international masterclasses and teaches at the Anton Rubinstein Music Academy. He has released a CD with Italian pianist Gabriele Leporatti on the Etera Classics label.

Born in St. Petersburg into a musical family, he began his musical studies with Savelij Shalman and Elena Komarova. He pursued further viola studies at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig with Tatjana Masurenko, where he completed his concert exam.

Initial orchestral experience was gained with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. Since 2009, Yuri Bondarev has held the position of deputy principal violist with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra.

Yuri Bondarev plays a viola made by Jürgen Manthey.