Karin Dolman

* in Dordrecht; viola player; studied at the Rotterdams Conservatorium, where she took her violin diploma with Vaclav Novak in 1991, and then turned to the viola; specialising in contemporary music for viola; member of the DoelenKwartet and of several chamber music formations, among them the duo with the pianist Caecilia Boschman that has existed since 1992, the Pelgrim Trio and the Ophelia Trio; many years of participation in the Orkest-Vereeniging Dordrecht; teacher of viola at the Codarts Conservatorium Rotterdam. The DoelenKwartet’s first CD appeared in October 2000 with Russian string quartets by Schostakowitsch, Gubaidulina and Silvestrov. The DoelenKwartet came into being in the mid-nineties out of members of the Rotterdam-based DoelenEnsemble; alongside Karin Dolman, Frank de Groot (first violin), Laurens van Vliet and later Maartje Kraan (second violin) and Hans Woudenberg (cello) played in it; the ensemble’s focus lies on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. She belonged to the quartet for nearly thirty years. She has taught viola at the Codarts in Rotterdam since 2011. In 2012, together with other viola players, she founded the Dutch Viola Society, which holds a national viola congress every two years and staged the International Viola Congress in Rotterdam in 2018; Karin Dolman is vice-president of the International Viola Society. Six albums connect her with Cybele as the viola player of the DoelenKwartet. They range from the Portrait Peter-Jan Wagemans (2001) through Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartets Nos. 1, 4, 8 and 5 (2006) to the label’s word-and-music productions: the audiobooks after Urs Faes (2006) and Arnold Schönberg’s Die Prinzessin (2008) as well as the conversation volumes on Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2009) and Hans Erich Apostel (2010) from the Edition Künstler im Gespräch.