Pambula-based violinist/violist Vanessa Vromans (AU/NL) was born in Curacao to a
Dutch father and an Australian mother. She holds both a Bachelor's and
Master's degree in solo violin performance from the Conservatorium in
Rotterdam, where she studied Classical and World music. Already inspired
by and drawn towards the music of Eastern Europe from an early age,
upon the completion of her formal studies Vromans dedicated herself to
learning the language of East European violin. She has since undertaken
intensive studies of Klezmer fiddle with Michael Alpert (Brave Old
World), Steven Greenman (Khevrisa), Cookie Segelstein (Budowitz/Veretski
Pass), Alicia Svigals (Klezmatics), and Deborah Strauss, as well as
Romanian/Moldovan violin studies with Marin Bunea of Chisinau, (MD).
Vromans co-founded Kol Ishe (DE), Figelin (DE/US), played in the Gimpel Theater
Project (DE/MD), and has appeared as a guest with Khevrisa (US) &
Shtetl Band Amsterdam (NL). She has performed and taught at festivals in
Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Switzerland and the United
States, and since moving to Berlin in 2013 has played in various theater
productions at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Neuköllner Oper and the
Hauptstadtoper.