Marlene Verwey

Bio

Named by Sir James Galway as the 2012 Rising Star, South African-born Marlene Verwey is launching her career as one of the finest flautists of her generation.

Marlene is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, where she obtained an Artist Diploma, the highest performance qualification awarded at the RCM. Her previous studies include a Masters degree at the Carnegie Mellon University in the USA under Jeanne Baxtresser, a performance diploma at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milano, Italy under Raffaele Trevisani, and a B.Mus at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, under John Hinch. As a member of the Southbank Sinfonia, Marlene has had the opportunity to perform with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Edward Gardner and Michael Collins and worked alongside musicians from the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and the British Youth Opera.

Marlene has been a prize winner at the International de Lorenzo flute competition held in Viggiano, Italy and was the overall winner in the 2004 SAMRO International scholarship competition. She was a member of the World Youth Orchestra from 2003 to 2006 and toured with this orchestra to the Middle East and Europe on various occasions and the USA, where the orchestra performed at the United Nations Headquarters. Marlene commissioned works for flute and piano by the South African composers Hendrik Hofmeyr and Stefans Grove, which were premiered at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival in 2007. In 2008 Marlene won a JR Lafin Headjoint by public vote at the Sir James Galway Masterclass in Weggis, Switzerland.

She recently recorded her first solo album with Salon Music South Africa, 'A Flute Affair'. She has recently been named a WmS Haynes Artist and performs on a 18k and 14k Golden Haynes Flute.

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Profile added by SAMRO FOUNDATION on 15 Jan 2015
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