Berthine van Schoor - Know our mentor creator

Cellist Berthine van Schoor offers individual coaching, assessments and masterclasses for young aspiring musicians on KALOS, before getting her advice, what about getting to know more about her?

Berthine van Schoor is a graduate of the University of Stellenbosch and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. She has performed extensively in Europe, Japan and India as a soloist, chamber musician and as a member of several orchestras and was the principal cellist in the Philharmonic Orchestra in Bad Reichenhall, Germany.

Berthine founded her own successful cello academy and is a tutor in the Unisa Music Foundation community development projects, a Unisa string specialist examiner and a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria and the NWU. She has received several awards for outstanding teaching (Unisa Best teacher Award in 2007). Her students have won first prizes in the Unisa Grade 8 Bursary competition, the SAVMO competition as well as the Il Vento competition.  Several of her students continued their studies abroad, eg in the USA, England and Austria. She is a regular judge at competitions and eisteddfods.

She has performed all major cello concertos with several orchestras in South Africa, Germany and India and has also played numerous concerts and recitals for the Unisa Music Foundation (with pianists Albie van Schalkwyk and Jose Dias). She has also performed for the Swiss, Austrian, Italian, Hungarian, Norwegian, French and Indian embassies with her trio, Trio Gloriosa, which she formed with violinist Camelia Onea and pianist Annalien Ball.

Berthine has been a faculty member of the International Academy of Music in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy, five times and has performed at the South African Embassy in Rome and at the European University Institute in Fiesole.

Berthine enjoys experimenting with different musical styles. She takes a keen interest in Baroque performance practice and has collaborated with cembalist John Coulter on many on many occasions. She is the cellist in the Indian classical music group East meets West (sitar, sarod, cello and tabla), with whom she has performed at all major festivals in South Africa. She is well known for her burnished sound and has recently embarked on a journey in exploring a wide spectrum of music for solo cello. She is also very interested in art and photography. Berthine plays a cello made by Georg Tiefenbrunner in Munich, 1849.

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