Biography

​Jiska Lambrecht (°1997) is a Belgian violinist. She is active as a soloist and as a passionate chamber musician.

 

Since 2018 Jiska forms a musical duo with the Italian pianist Marco Sanna. April 2024 their first cd Abendrot was released for Etcetera Records with music by Robert & Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms and the Flemish composer Lodewijk Mortelmans.

 

Jiska is the first violinist of the Turicum Quartet. 2023 the quartet got second prize at the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in Poland (first prize not awarded). Highly acclaimed, their performance was worldwide livestreamed by Medici TV. This season, the Turicum Quartet made a.o. their debut in Tonhalle Zurich and they performed together with the prestigious Gringolts Quartet. July 2024 they were Ensemble in Residence at the Ticino Musica Festival. They are a regular guest at Villa Musica in Germany.

 

Together with the Dutch cellist Iedje van Wees Jiska founded Duo Misia. As a member of CHAARTS Chamber Artists she realised the cd Suite italienne with Jonian Ilias Kadesha. Her performance of the string quintet of Eugène Ysaÿe on the cd Legends received four stars in BBC Music Magazine.

 

Recently she performed the violin concerto of Felix Mendelssohn under the baton of Holly Hyun Choe, who was the assistant conductor of Paavo Järvi during two seasons.

 

Jiska performed in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Malta and Russia in concert halls such as Tonhalle Zurich, Grand Hall and Solti Hall Budapest, NOSPR, Bozar, De Singel, Concertgebouw Brugge, Yehudi Menuhin Forum Bern and the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

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Last summer Jiska was invited to the Pau Casals International Music Festival, performing alongside Antje Weithaas, Jonathan Brown and Erica Wise. She was invited a.o. to Mizmorim Festival, GAIA Music Festival, Festival Academy Budapest, Kaposfest, CLASSIX Kempten, Aurora Old Ox Music Festival, Ghent Festival of Flanders and Boswiler Sommer. She is a regular guest at the Arte Amanti International Chamber Music Festival as Rising Star.

 

Jiska performed a.o. together with István Várdai, Máté Szücs, José Gallardo, Lorenza Borrani, Natalia Lomeiko, Maxim Rysanov, Razvan Popovici and the legendary Shlomo Mintz. She worked with composers such as Jörg Widmann and Michael Jarrell and played under the baton of a.o. Edo de Waart, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Howard Griffiths.

 

Jiska started playing the violin at the age of six. From 2013 she studied with Jolente De Maeyer and Natasha Boyarsky in London. After her master’s degree in Cologne with Barnabás Kelemen, Jiska completed her studies at the Zurich University of the Arts with Ilya Gringolts, obtaining the soloist diploma. She also broadened her spectrum by studying baroque violin with Monika Baer.

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2024-2025 she is admitted with the Turicum Quartet for a graduate course in the classes of Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and Silvia Simionescu (Gringolts Quartet) in Basel. The Turicum Quartet is also very grateful for the support and guidance of Axel Schacher (ex-Belcea Quartet).

 

Jiska had masterclasses with a.o. Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Svetlana Makarova, Kristóf Baráti, Erik Schumann, Lutsia Ibragimova, Eszter Perényi and Hariolf Schlichtig.

 

Jiska is “Laureate 2024” of SWUK Flanders Foundation and received 2025 a “scholarship for emerging talent” from the Flemish Government. She is a laureate of the Marguerite Meister Foundation and won a Kiwanis Music Prize with the Turicum Quartet.