
Eline Bergmann
was born in 1979 in Groningen, the Netherlands and started to play the
piano at the age of 6. At 15 she entered the North Netherlands Conservatoire
with the Russian pedagogue Alexander Makarov and Gerben Makkes van der
Deijl. She participated frequently at national competitions like the Princess
Christina Competition where she won the first price in 1994 including
a musical trip to St. Petersburg and London. She performed in a Haydn
piano concerto with the famous Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands with
director Roland Kieft.
In 1998 she was a pricewinner at the International Piano Competition in
San Bartolomeo (Italy). She took masterclasses with the well-known Italian
concert pianist Igor Roma and the Dutch Rian de Waal.
From 1999 she started to study with the Hungarian concert pianist Klára
Würtz at the North Netherlands Conservatoire where she graduated
in 2001. She continued her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
in Budapest with Balázs Szokolay.
From January until June 2004 she was a student at the Conservatorio di
musica in Perugia (Italy) thanks to a scholarship she had previously obtained
by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura per i Paesi Bassi.
With Maestro Luigi Tanganelli she enriched her solo repertoire and she
entered the chamber music class under the guidance of Maestro Costantino
Mastroprimiano. In Perugia she formed the Priori Piano Quartet with whom
she performed for the Royal Dutch Cultural Institute in Rome and the Auditorium
of Perugia. In the summer of 2004 Eline and cellist Tove Törngren
(member of the Priori Piano Quartet) formed the Duo Estivo.
Eline next to her musical activities took her degree in Roman Languages
and Cultures at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen with a thesis
(written in Italian) on the influence of the Italian classics Dante en
Petrarca in the 19th century, particularly on the composer Franz Liszt.
Eline has always been interested in the process of teaching and has had
a private class for years, nowadays she also teaches piano in the Music
School of Almere and Italian at the Volksuniversiteit Groningen.