Gwendolyn Masin

Gwendolyn Masin is one of today’s significant concert violinists and an innovator in classical music. She performs internationally as a soloist, and in collaboration with musicians, artists, and orchestras. Tours and live recordings include concertos and virtuoso repertoire with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Hungarian National Philharmonic, Hungarian Chamber Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic, Savannah and Georgia Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Bernese Symphony Orchestra. Concerts take her all over Europe and the United States, as well as Asia, South Africa, and the Middle East.

Gwendolyn is a recording artist for Naxos and Orchid Classics. Her albums include solo appearances with and without orchestra, as well as chamber music. As commissioner for contemporary music, Gwendolyn has premiered more than 40 works, including solo repertoire and a violin concerto.

Violin in hand, she has been a keynote speaker at platforms as diverse as conferences of the European String Teachers Association, TEDxBern, TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Conservatório de Música da Metropolitana Lisbon, Swiss Fundraising, a string of colleges in North America including Princeton University, Berklee College of Music, Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus and the Faculty of Music of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) as well as major institutes in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Israel.

Gwendolyn is founding artistic director of GAIA Music Festival. The festival takes place annually in Switzerland since 2009 and is recognised as one of the country’s most important. Notable artistic partnerships include her own series for Casino Bern, and summer academy festival for Dublin’s National Concert Hall.

Gwendolyn is an educator, musicologist and author. In 2009, the award-winning, Michaela’s Music House, The Magic of the Violin, was published. At the time of printing, it marked her as the youngest female violinist to have penned her own method. Gwendolyn’s articles have been published in The Strad Magazine and other trade journals. From 2013 to 2020, Gwendolyn was professor and researcher of violin studies at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, Switzerland. Gwendolyn's own mentors include Herman Krebbers, Igor Ozim, Ana Chumachenco, Zakhar Bron and Shmuel Ashkenasi. The violinist speaks five languages.