Artist archive: Maria Milstein

Since June 2020 my husband, violinist Mathieu van Bellen, and I have been realising a long-held dream of creating a chamber music centre in the Netherlands: MuziekHaven Zaandam – a performance and recording space where musicians could retreat to devote themselves fully to their music. We acquired a wooden barn church from the 17th century […]

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MuziekHaven Zaandam,
Mathieu and Me

Maria Milstein’s recent CD, The Vinteuil Sonata, recorded with her pianist sister Nathalia and made possible through her BBT Fellowship 2016, also inspired her piece for The Arts Desk website, reprinted here with permission. I remember very well the first time I read Swann’s Way, the first part of Marcel Proust’s monumental masterpiece, In Search […]

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