Corona Pandemic
Like the rest of the world, I watch, horrified at the pain and loss that so many of us are experiencing. I look forward to the day that we can once again experience the joys of live human interaction. Until then, let us stay strong in our global solidarity
Mastercourse/Retreat
The Exhale is an online platform providing professional courses and holistic masterclasses to musicians, practitioners, and artists from across the globe. The Exhale is unique in its holistic approach to music education. The Exhale redesigns how music is taught and practiced by exploring a broad variety of topics and offering a range of classes that encapsulate a diversity of subjects not offered on one single platform anywhere else.
Concert Series
Gwendolyn's annual four-concert series "Cocktail für die Musen" aspires to offer classical music fans a place to discover newness in the ‘mix’ and curious music-lovers an adventure for all the senses. The next concert takes place in 2021 in Bern Casino's Great Hall
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Release - Live Recording
Gwendolyn Masin with Melisma Saxophone Quartet
Summer Academy
Initiated by Gwendolyn and Finghin Collins, the National Concert Hall of Ireland hosts the third International Master Course in summer 2021. Over 32 Irish and international participants will have the opportunity to enjoy coaching from Gilles Apap, (violin), Finghin Collins (piano), Marc Coppey (cello), Máté Szűcs (viola), and Gwendolyn Masin (violin). In 2020, the course, in the face of the pandemic, moved online
Festival
Gwendolyn's GAIA Music Festival is 13 years old in 2021. Cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, it streamed only one concert for its 12th edition, still available online. In August 2021 the festival returns to live concerts
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Author / Educator
Gwendolyn's four-part series of articles for The Strad Magazine are woven around a holistic approach to learning and living as a musician. From the origin of human movement to the integration of somatic experience for the purpose of interpreting music, Gwendolyn builds a case for teaching human beings as a whole
Record
Gwendolyn Masin with Simon Bucher
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Book
Gwendolyn's violin-technique book for young players. Also available in the English-language version
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Livestream
A unique happening, facilitating new audiences: Simon and Gwendolyn occupied the shop window of Loeb in Bern during three days of concert performances. Relive their last performance in our livestream
Agenda
Live performances, artist residency, collaborations, and masterclasses in Seoul, Zurich, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Como, Dublin, Berne, Budapest and more
Media
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album
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Thesis
“Violin Teaching in the New Millennium" is a collection of stories about music, violinists and violin performance – involving intrigues and anecdotes, revealed secrets and unpublished interviews given by some of the leading lights of the classical music world
Media
“Better Performance Through Failing Better”
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