Martijn Vink/cello

Martijn Vink (Netherlands) studied cello and followed master classes under E. Arizcuren, J. Chuchro, K. Michalik, P. Muller, H. Schiff, W. Pleeth, I. Monighetti, D. Fershtman and others. He studied chamber music at the European Mozart Academy in Prague under the artistic guidance of Sandor Vegh.
He has focused on chamber music since 1993. In addition to ongoing commitments to the Oxalys and Het Collective ensembles, he has also played with various groups all over Europe. He has also given several solo cello performances in the cello concertos of Saint Saens, Lalo, Martinu, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Martinu and Dvorak with various orchestras under conductors such as Hans Vonk, Ivo Venkov and Wiktor Lieberman. He has been on concert tours all over Europe, North and South America and Asia, and has regularly made guest appearances at chamber music festivals including The International Chamber Music Seminar in Prussia Cove. He also gives various master classes in cello and chamber music at the Academie d'Ete in Libramont and elsewhere. He has collaborated in a number of dance and music-theatre productions and together with Viviane de Muynck performed the duet piece The Sound of Time. In addition to his musical training he studied psychology at Utrecht University, where he graduated in 1993. Since 2006 Martijn has taught cello at Utrecht Conservatory.