At 7 tonight Meller will come to the Ford-Crawford Hall to present a master class.
Meller is a Finnish violinist who graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 1979, at the age of 15, she was accepted to study with Josef Gingold as his youngest student at IU. In 1982, she was selected into the Artist Diploma program.
Later, she studied with Victor Liberman in Utrechts Conservatorium in Holland. She spent the last year of her violin studies at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland, on full scholarship.
Meller is a Senior Lecturer in Violin Music at the Sibelius Academy, where she has been teaching the violin since 1990. She had the position of the Third Concertmaster of the Finnish Radio Orchestra from 1987-1989.
Meller has been Artistic Director of Raudaskylä International master classes as well as the Founder and Director of Camerata Caprice Chamber Orchestra.
Aside from authoring numerous articles, she has written a book introducing Tatiana Pogozeva´s particular Russian method of teaching violin playing to children.
Meller is frequently invited to give master classes at schools. She has also been invited to give master classes at music festivals, including the Summit Music Festival in New York.
Meller also has experience performing with other ?musicians. Meller has performed chamber music with Mikhail Kopelman, Ralf Gothóni, Alexander Rudin, Yuri Bashmet and others.
She has performed as a soloist with the Finnish Radio Orchestra with Leif Segerstam and Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting, with Camerata Lysy and together with Yehudi Menuhin.
Meller was asked in 2011 by the Rector of the Sibelius Academy to establish a program of distance learning in the school. Now, she is the Academic Coordinator of the Distance Learning in Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki.
Lanie Maresh
