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Resume of her career
The Dutch concert
violinist Charlotte Bon has managed to secure a unique position
in the Netherlands. Using her innovative potentials, she has followed
various musical courses throughout her all-round career.
She is the youngest scion of a classical music family. Already at an
early age her natural talent for the violin and her passion for music
drew the attention of many people, both from inside and outside the
established music scene.
After a thorough education she has been invited as a soloist by various
famous orchestras and ensembles.
She has travelled all-over Europe as a violin-piano duo.
In the modern-classical music world she made her name in a number of
huge theatre productions.
She has toured in the Netherlands with her Strauss orchestra Wiener
Melange.
Versatility is her trademark.
Education
As a seven-year-old
Charlotte received already her first violin lessons.
When she was 21 years old she obtained her soloist certificate at the Conservatory
of Amsterdam. She finished her music education under the supervision
of Herman Krebbers, who was at that time the concertmaster of the Koninklijk
Concertgebouw Orkest.
In Paris she took private lessons with the French violin educationist Joseph
Calvet.
She has taken master classes with distinguished violin soloists in
France, Italy and Switzerland.
Instruments
Charlotte
Bon plays a very special instrument, viz. a violin built in 1825 by the
famous French manufacturer Jean-Baptiste
Vuillaume.
This violin builder has achieved a worldwide reputation through his
construction of really sublime copies of the instruments that were made
in Italy around 1700 by the supreme Antonio Stradivari.
She is also in the possession of the first 5-string midi violin in the
world, the Zeta Midi violin.
Of this violin only a very few examples exist worldwide.
This violin owes its exclusivity to the fact that it can be connected to
a keyboard enabling the reproduction of unique sounds.
Highlights
Silver
Friends Corona
In 1976 she was awarded the
Zilveren Vrienden Krans (Silver Friends Corona) of the Foundation of
Friends of the Concertgebouw and the Koninklijk Concertgebouw
Orkest in Amsterdam. This is an honourable distinction in the
Netherlands.
Young
people on their way to the concert stage
She held the solo violin in the
television programme Jonge mensen op weg naar het concertpodium (Young
people on their way to the concert stage) with the Omroeporkest in the
violin concerto in G by Haydn.
Violin-piano
duo
During more than ten years she
has formed a violin-piano duo with various renown piano players, a.o.
with the master pianist Ronald Brautigam.
Violin
soloist with the
Residentie Orkest
Charlotte Bon has performed as the
solo violin with the Residentie Orkest in the well-known romantic
violin concerto by Max Bruch opus 44.
The Masterplayers
For several years Charlotte Bon has
travelled extensively all-over Europe, the Americas and Canada with the
internationally renown chamber orchestra The Masterplayers; in
this setting she performed a.o. in the concerto for two violins by
Vivaldi.
Salon
orchestra
Fantastique
Charlotte
Bon has held the principal violin in her famous salon orchestra Fantastique.
The ensemble had performed extensively in the Netherlands, Germany and
Belgium.
Orchestra
Wiener Melange
During two seasons she has
presented a sparkling show with her own orchestra Wiener Melange.
These productions highlighting popular-classical music could be enjoyed
in all major theatres in the Netherlands.
Ensemble Charlotte Bon
In
the years 2000 and 2001 Charlotte and her Ensemble Charlotte Bon visited
many big theatres in a show for youngsters with the composition Eriks
wonderbaarlijke reis (Eric’s miraculous journey), featuring the
popular actor and narrator Edwin Rutten.
Textile
Art Concerts
In
2002 Charlotte Bon organised a series of concerts in various churches in
the Netherlands where a unique connection was forged between renown
textile artists, a.o. Leonie Sazias, and the Ensemble
Charlotte Bon in
compositions by Cage, Stockhausen, Kreisler, Ravel and Fauré.
Paul
Haenen
In 2005 she was the main guest in
the jubilee show of the well-known Dutch cabaretier Paul Haenen
in Amsterdam.
Charlotte Bon private
Charlotte
Bon lives in Hilversum. She has two daughters who are 15 and 26 years
old.
She
finds great satisfaction in her two hobbies: fashion and the art of
painting.
A selection from
specific elements forming the personality of Charlotte Bon:
musical – creative – passionate – ambitious – adventurous
– sensual – engaging.
Charlotte’s sources of inspiration are her musical family, Herman
Krebbers and the
world famous violinists David Oistrach, Nathan Milstein and
Isaac Stern.
Her favourite ‘classical’ composers are Beethoven, Brahms,
Tsjaikowski, Debussy and Ravel. Jazz is also a great passion of hers
with Theolonius Monk, Miles Davis, Weather Report,
Jaco Pastorius, Candy Dulfer, Michael Bublé and Matt Dusk as some of
her favourites.
Charlotte
considers Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand as her
shining examples in the world of the entertainment music.
Charlotte Bon music producer
As a music producer
and sound editor Charlotte Bon will launch about ten sound recording
media over the next five years.
The source of inspiration for this unique CD production is formed by the
highly romantic film music of world standard, like the probing music of Star
Wars, Jurrasic Park and Harry Potter.
Completely in this tradition Charlotte Bon allows a surprising revival
of the classical symphony orchestra in combination with an innovating
21st century sound.
Charlotte is fully convinced to have found and established a new trend
in orchestral music
on an international level.
The music is intended for a modern mainstream, but demanding audience.
It is in all respects
easily accessible, sparkling,
fascinating and, above all, impassioned.
The music on
every CD will be arranged around a special theme, but always with:
the
same familiar sound
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the
same superb quality
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the
same musical elegance
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always under the same name and trademark:
Charlotte Bon Music
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