The Twiolins - Marie-Luise & Christoph Dingler
The siblings Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler are specialists concerning the genre of violin-duos. They have made it their business to keep that tradition and to revive it with innovations. Both are familiar with all duos, from the early baroque era to the modern era of music, and they perform premiere concerts with compositions which were dedicated exclusively to them. Being the third generation of musicians, they both study at the chair of Prof. Bratschkova in Mannheim. Brought up in an environment of musicians – their grandfather was a bandmaster, their mother is an A-cantor and a harpsichordist – they achieve the highest degree of interplay and harmony of sound, which can only be accomplished due to their shared curriculum and their permanent interplay.
“Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler are extraordinary gifted violinists and musicians, who created an unique event, the Crossover Composition Award. It is transfrontier and on the highest musical level and has the potential, to advance national and international composers and to create a new and important repertoire of music in a genre, which was much disregarded.”
Aleksey Igudesman (violinist, composer, 3rd price CCA 2009)
“Beautiful Playing!! Fantastic!!”
Mark Feldmann
The siblings Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler started to play the violin at the age of 7. Four years later, they already participated at “Jugend musiziert”. At this, they achieved the first prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in the following years six times in a row. Both have been members of the state orchestra and the national orchestra and they are awardees of the Adolf-Metzner-Stiftung, the Heinrich-Vetter-Stiftung, the Kiwanis-Club, the Bruno-Hermann-Preis, the European Musical Competition and the International Violin Competition in Hofheim. They had solo performances with the “Auftakt Orchestra Heidelberg”, the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Technology in Darmstadt, the “Kurpfälzische Chamber Orchestra”, the Corona Palatina and the Brandenburgian State Orchestra. They participated at the concert “Förderpreis Schloss Waldhausen” at the state parliament in Mainz, with a recording of the SWR (South-West broadcasting).
Recently, they have been included into the support program of LiveMusicNow Rhein-Neckar e.V. and they founded the “Mannheimer Hofquartett”, an ensemble of baroque specialist (until 2010). 2009 they played concerts at “Jeunes Virtuoses à Ennejma Ezzahra” in Tunis, Tunesia, and arranged first time the “Crossover Composition Award”, a composition competition for two violins. 2012 they got the Helene-Hecht-Preis for their engagement. 2010 they won the second prize for contemporary music at the “Internen Hochschulwettbewerb” and they reached the semifinale of the Torneo Internazionale de Musica in Cerea, Italy.
Violins by Martin Schleske
Working with masterpieces
The instruments of the violinduo come form the master studio of Martin Schleske (Munich), who is worldwide famous for his violin making. (www.geigenforschung.de)
With the aid of the most modern research methods, it is possible to build exact sound copies of the old violins which were made by a master craftsman. The violinduo plays on archetypes according to Montagnana (1729) and Guarneri (1733).
