Monique Bartels is a Dutch cellist and teacher. She studied with Jean Decroos at the Amsterdams Muzieklyceum and was for many years a member of various chamber music ensembles in the Netherlands and abroad. Ton de Leeuw and Peter-Jan Wagemans dedicated works for cello to her. Bartels taught at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and was among the co-founders of the National Cello Competition and of the Cello Biennale Amsterdam. With the pianist Natasja Douma she recorded works by David Popper in 2005. On the Cybele album Portrait Peter-Jan Wagemans (2001) she can be heard as performer.
Monique Bartels
Cello
