Considered by the international press for her virtuosity (“Fiery virtuoso,” The Strad, “True Devil Violinist” Bayerische Rundfunk, “Superbly played, flamboyant Lina” Diapason) combined with a rare musicality (“honest and heartfelt music-making” Gramophone, “the violinist of the soul” Sankei Shinbun), Lina Tur Bonet develops a career as a violinist and conductor that is both versatile and personal.
Her love for music and her insatiable curiosity allow her to interpret and explore a repertoire that spans over 400 years of music, from Monteverdi to Kurtag, always with original instruments.
She has performed all the Rosary Sonatas in Tokyo, Madrid, and Vienna, served as concertmaster for over a hundred of Bach’s Cantatas and Passions—including the St. Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Concerto Köln—interpreted Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet “pour la fin du temps” and those of W. Lutoslawski and Morton Feldman at the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, and has also performed as a soloist with orchestras in concerts and works by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Chausson, Mendelssohn, Bartok, and Piazzolla with chamber and symphonic orchestras both in and outside her country. She premiered the works Melancholia for solo violin and Far Water for violin and Noh Theatre singer, both dedicated to her by composer José María Sánchez Verdú, in Tokyo. She was invited to the Montreal Festival to perform the complete works for solo violin by J.S. Bach. She has recorded violin duets with Enrico Onofri. She is frequently invited as concertmaster by the National Orchestra of Spain and the Liceu Orchestra, among others.
In her latest recording, Sonata Lunatica, she has been recorded in Austria with the Kreutzer Sonata and Beethoven’s last Violin Sonata, alongside Aurelia Visovan for the Passacaille label, following intensive research in period interpretation guided, among others, by Clive Brown.
Lina Tur Bonet was selected to be part of the cultural offering that AECID presented in 2016, touring several countries in South America. In 2018, she undertook two tours in Japan with Baroque and contemporary music (recorded by NHK), as well as in Panama and Bolivia. Her commitments in 2022 will take her across Europe –Spain, Austria, Potsdamer Festival, Munich, Halle– as well as to Australia and the USA.
Lina Tur Bonet is the founder and director of the ensemble MUSIca ALcheMIca.
