PRESENT
Eva Saladin is a freelance musician based in Basel, Switzerland. She gives solo recitals and performs with chamber music ensembles and orchestras all over Europe. She has a wide knowledge about style and playing techniques from the early 17th until the early 19th century. She is an experienced orchestra and ensemble leader as well as a skilled improviser.
In 2021 she was Artist in Residence at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. In the same year, she published her solo cd “The Di Martinelli Manuscript”. Her second album with the complete violin sonatas by Antonio Pandolfi Mealli was released in May 2023.
For more details, please download a CV or take a look at "activities”.
PRESS
“[Eva Saladin] performs with great taste, allowing the musical lines and the excellent continuo realisations to flow, with a highly communicative violin that, with musicality, seeks the narrative expressiveness of this music.”
Review of the album with Pandolfi Mealli violin sonatas (Challenge Records 2023) in Scherzo July/August 2023
”[Eva Saladin,] the first violin, demonstrates astonishing rhythmic precision, pulling along the approximately forty-five instrumentalists and the choir."
Review of a concert of Mendelssohn’s Elias with Gli Angeli Genève in Victoria Hall, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, in Crescendo Magazine, June 2023
“Top-notch string player and violinfluencer.”
Review of the album with Pandolfi Mealli violin sonatas (Challenge Records 2023) in Standaard, May 2023
“Eva Saladin’s violin playing is beautifully expressive and communicative, catching the varying moods of the music to perfection. Her use of ornamentation is exemplary, always allowing the musical line to flow.”
Review of the album The Di Martinelli Manuscript (Glossa 2021) by Andrew Benson-Wilson, December 2021.
“Enormous personality, splendid technique and a very attractive sound […] it is clear that her way of playing, her musicality, her stage presence, her knowledge about the style […] make her one of the brightest stars of her instrument.”
Review of a recital with Johannes Keller (harpsichord) and Daniel Rosin (cello) at the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2019. Luis Gago in El País, 29th August 2019.
“Eva Saladin is impressive. The interaction with her fellow musicians is phenomenal”
Review of two concerts at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Merlijn Kerkhof in Volkskrant, 1st September 2019
PAST
Conservatorium van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005-2009 Bachelor studies on violin with Kees Koelmans (cum laude)
2009-2011 Master studies on violin with Kees Koelmans
2007-2011 Baroque violin as a second study with Lucy van Dael
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland
2011-2013 Master studies on baroque violin with Leila Schayegh (summa cum laude)
2011-2013 Minor studies in historical improvisation with Rudolf Lutz