Anne-Linde Visser

bass violin | baroque cello | piccolo cello | viola da gamba

Biography

Anne-Linde Visser is an active performer on the bass violin, baroque cello, piccolo cello and the viola da gamba. A dedicated chamber musician and basso continuo player, Anne-Linde’s continuo has been praised as ‘excellent’ (Early Music Reviews) and ‘impressive: unobtrusive yet decisive’ (Opera Today). With her own group, The Strawberry Thieves Consort, she explores the English consort repertoire. She is also a member of 17th-century music ensemble Castello Consort. With the Castello Consort, she took part in the Eeemerging scheme and performed at a variety of international festivals. Over the last years, the ensemble collaborated with composer Martijn Padding. He composed a collection of pieces for the Castello Consort, including a fantasia for solo viola da gamba. In 2022 she won the second prize at the Early Music Young Ensemble Competition in London with ensemble La Rondinella.

Her chamber & orchestral performances have brought her to stages from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and much loved small venues in the middle of nowhere. She has performed with internationally-renowned ensembles such as Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Musica Amphion, Ensemble Cordevento, Prjct Amsterdam, Ensemble Odyssee, Kölner Akademie (DE), Musica Gloria (BE), and Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra (IT). In 2020 she was selected for the Experience Scheme with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (UK).

Anne-Linde earned her master diploma (summa cum laude) in baroque cello from The Royal Conservatory The Hague, studying with Lucia Swarts. She continued studying viola da gamba at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Jonathan Manson, where she completed the Professional Diploma course with distinction in 2019. Anne-Linde’s study in London was supported by the Historical Enlightenment Scholarship and the Cultuurfondsbeurs.

Anne-Linde plays on two 18th-century instruments: an English baroque cello (made possible with the help of ‘Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument’) and a Saxon piccolo-cello.

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