Merel Vercammen

Violinist Merel Vercammen received her first violin lessons when she was five years old and from the age of fifteen, she studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Eeva Koskinen. She graduated with honors from the Royal College of Music in London. Merel has performed all over the world and played in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Wigmore Hall in London. As a soloist, Merel has performed in the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Otto Kettin. She also developed an interactive performance about music and the brain (The New Mozart Effect) and is involved in improvisation. Her albums The Zoo (2019) and The Boulanger Legacy (2021) were highly acclaimed.

Merel has won the London Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition, the National Competition of the Netherlands Young Music Talent Foundation and the Princess Christina Competition. In addition to her activities as a violinist, Merel also obtained a Master of Science in Music, Mind & Brain at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Master in Cultural Economics & Entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her interests in music and science come together in her new festival SNAAR in TivoliVredenburg.