Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein
Violinist Maria Milstein, based in the Netherlands and of Russian and French background, is a rising figure as a soloist, in duets with her sister, pianist Nathalia Milstein, and in her own Van Baerle Trio. She has recorded for Alpha, Challenge Classics, Channel Classics, and other major labels.
Milstein was born in Moscow in 1985. Although unrelated to Nathan Milstein, she grew up in a musical family; her grandfather Yakov Milstein was a piano and theory professor at the Moscow Conservatory and taught pianists Bella Davidovich and Elisabeth Leonskaja, among others. Milstein took up the violin at the age of five. Her family emigrated to France in 1991, and she continued her studies with Pavel Vernikov in Fiesole, Italy. Milstein enrolled at the Amsterdam Conservatory, studying with Ilya Grubert and graduating in 2008 with the highest honors. She went on for further studies in London with David Takeno, and from 2011 to 2014, she was artist-in-residence at Belgium's Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel. In September of 2014, she began teaching at her alma mater, the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her violin-and-piano duo with Nathalia began in 2005, and in 2008, she formed the Van Baerle Trio with pianist Hannes Minnaar and cellist Gideon den Herder. Milstein has been a significant prizewinner both as a soloist (the Kersjes Award in the Netherlands in 2010) and in the Van Baerle Trio (first prize and four other prizes at the International Chamber Music Competition of Lyon, France, in 2011). Milstein made several well-regarded albums early in her career. The Van Baerle Trio's 2012 Etcetera debut, featuring works by Saint-Saëns, Loevendie, and Ravel, earned an Edison Award, and Milstein's solo debut, Sounds of War, recorded with pianist Hanna Shybayeva, earned another Edison Award in 2015. Maria and Nathalia Milstein released the album La Sonate de Vinteuil, with music by Saint-Saëns, Reynaldo Hahn, and Debussy, in 2017.
In 2016, Milstein was named a Borletti-Buitoni Trust artist. She has performed with the Liège Royal Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, among others. She joined the Busch Trio in 2018 for a recording of chamber music by Dvořák, and the following year, she joined Nathalia on the Mirare label for the recital album Ravel: Voyageur. Milstein and violinist Mathieu van Bellen issued an album of duo-violin sonatas by Prokofiev, Górecki, and Ysaÿe on Challenge Classics in 2021, and Milstein returned in 2023 with a recording of Prokofiev's violin concertos with the Phion Orchestra.
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Discography
6 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein, Phion Orchestra, Otto Tausk
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on Jan 27, 2023
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel Voyageur
Nathalia Milstein, Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein
Classical - Released by Mirare on Aug 30, 2019
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Hahn, Pierné : La sonate de Vinteuil
Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein, Nathalia Milstein
Classical - Released by Mirare on Oct 13, 2017
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Dvořák: Piano Quintets & Bagatelles
Busch Trio, Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein, Miguel Da Silva
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Jun 8, 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sounds of War
Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein, Hanna Shybayeva
Classical - Released by Cobra Records on Jan 2, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sonatas for Two Violins
Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein, Mathieu van Bellen
Classical - Released by Challenge Classics on Feb 7, 2020
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo