When and where was your first concert with the MCO?
My first concert with the MCO was in Landshut in 1997.

What is your most memorable moment with the orchestra?
Our first long Don Giovanni-project had many special moments, the orchestra "grew up" with that.

The most inspiring composer:
Brahms.

The first piece of music you fell in love with:
Bach double-concerto for two violins at the age of 6!

What makes a “perfect” concert?
When special moments appears in interaction with the other musicians, the audience or the conductor.

BIOGRAPHY
Mette Tjaerby Korneliusen was born in Denmark in 1975. With her husband and her two children she now lives in Hamburg, where she is engaged at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Mette started to play the violin at the age of four, and as a teenager she was a very active orchestral player and chamber musician. She founded the Copenhagen Youth Strings orchestra and led several youth orchestras in Copenhagen.

She studied in Copenhagen with Prof. Peder Elbaek and in London with Prof. Erich Gruenberg and attended master classes with Igor Ozim, Leon Spiere, Sakari Tepponen, Elise  Bådnes, Franco Gulli, Christian Tetzlaf and David Takeno.

Since 1993 Mette has been working with the pianist Mimi Kjaer (Duo Mignon) and they have performed in Rome, Paris and Kuala Lumpur as well as in Denmark and Germany.

For ten years she played with the Helios Quartet and had concerts all over Denmark and master classes with the Amadeus Quartet. From 1994-1996 she was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra. She is one of the founding members of the MCO and since 2003 also a member of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA.

Click here to read Mette's Tour Diary entry (16.03.2010)
Click here to read Mette's Tour Diary entry (26.07.2008)