About us
Yan Ma
After receiving her first Bachelor in Classical Violin at the Conservatory of Shanghai in 2012, Yan Ma decided to come to Europe to enrich her musical culture. Her first step was in France where she received the DEM degree in Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt in Classical Violin, soon after she discovered the Baroque Violin with O.Centurioni and received DEM degree (2015). In the same year, she also studied Classical Violin with G.Masin in the Haute Ecole de Musique de Génève. She joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In September 2015, she started her second bachelor in baroque violin in the class of F.Fernandez, and via Erasmus, E.Gatti at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Now she is finishing her Master's degree in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Amandine Beyer.
After taking part in the closing ceremony of the World Expo in Shanghai 2010, as part of the Oriental Symphony Orchestra between 2010 and 2012, Yan continues to play regularly in Europe in different arrangements. She worked with Jeune Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz by François-Xavier Roth, Theresia Orchestra conducted by Chiara Banchini and Alfredo Bernardini, and also Les Arts Florissants by William Christie, Il Convito by Maude Gratton, Les nouveaux caractères by Sébastien d'Hérin, Holland baroque and La Diane Française...
After taking part in the closing ceremony of the World Expo in Shanghai 2010, as part of the Oriental Symphony Orchestra between 2010 and 2012, Yan continues to play regularly in Europe in different arrangements. She worked with Jeune Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz by François-Xavier Roth, Theresia Orchestra conducted by Chiara Banchini and Alfredo Bernardini, and also Les Arts Florissants by William Christie, Il Convito by Maude Gratton, Les nouveaux caractères by Sébastien d'Hérin, Holland baroque and La Diane Française...
Anne-Linde Visser
Anne-Linde Visser (1992) is an active performer on the bass violin, baroque cello, piccolo cello and the viola da gamba. She earned her master diploma (cum laude) in baroque cello from the Royal Conservatory The Hague, studying with Lucia Swarts. Recently she also graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music (London), where she studied the viola da gamba with Jonathan Manson. Anne-Linde performs with internationally-renowned baroque orchestras and conductors. Highlights from her orchestral activities include playing the gamba arias in the Matthew Passion conducted by Trevor Pinnock and in the Actus Tragicus with Philip Herreweghe for the Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata series (UK), and performing regularly with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging as a Young Bach Fellow. In 2020 she was selected for the Experience Scheme with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (UK). She has also performed with the Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra (IT), the Tulipa Consort, Musica Amphion, Dutch Baroque, and Le Concert d’Apollon.
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 the Castello Consort, she took part in the Eeemerging scheme and performed at a variety of international festivals, including the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Festival d’Ambronay, Beverley Early Music Festival (UK), BRQ Festival (fringe) in Vantaa (FI), and in the Fabulous Fringe series of the Utrecht Early Music festival.
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 the Castello Consort, she took part in the Eeemerging scheme and performed at a variety of international festivals, including the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Festival d’Ambronay, Beverley Early Music Festival (UK), BRQ Festival (fringe) in Vantaa (FI), and in the Fabulous Fringe series of the Utrecht Early Music festival.
Cécile Chartrain
Cécile Chartrain (1996) enjoys an active musical career in the european music scene. She has performed at numerous venues including Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, TivoliVredenburg, de Rijksmuseum, Oude Lutherse Kerk (The Netherlands), Salle Cortot, Le Château de Chambord (France), El Cine teatro Ateneo (Argentina), Palazzo del capitaniato (Italia)...
Since 2019, she has been following a master of basso continuo with Kris Verhelst and a bachelor of baroque oboe with Josep Domenech at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in parallel with her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou. In 2019 she is prizewinner of the Vlaamse Vereniging harpsichord competition. She gets to perform in the main early music festivals such as Internationale Händel-Festspiele in Göttingen (DE), Utrecht Early Music Festival (NL), MAFestival Brugge (BE), Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik (AUS) and is conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken, Shunske Sato, Hervé Niquet...