When and where was your first concert with the MCO? My first concert with the MCO was in Landshut in 1997.
The first piece of music you fell in love with: Bach’s Matthäuspassion and then Beethoven 7, second movement.
What would you do if you weren't a musician? Working in a hospital?
What makes a "perfect" concert? When we all start 'flying' together, feeling the music and if the public also felt the experience.
How do you spend your free time? Complete free time? Without a child? Hiking or sauna!
BIOGRAPHY Paulien Holthuis, born in 1973, is a founding member of both the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA.
Paulien Holthuis studied the violin with Else Krieg and Johan Kracht and attended masterclasses with Herman Krebbers. In 1999 she finished her Masters at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Paulien Holthuis started her orchestral experience in the Dutch National Youth Orchestra. Soon after that, she was invited to play in the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. While still completing her Masters, she got a job in the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra. At the same time she became a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Paulien Holthuis has a modern violin, T. de Vries and a C. Peccatte bow.
Paulien Holthuis has a family and combines this with playing in the MCO and freelancing in the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
