Vanessa Vromans was born in Curacao to a Dutch father and an Australian mother. Her family moved to the Netherlands when she was two, where she lived until four before they moved back to Australia. It was then that her mother first took her to an instrument shop. "I remember looking up and seeing all the beautiful violins cascading the walls, " she says of this childhood experience. "I knew right then and there that I had to learn to play the violin." In fact, she studied up through college, and returned to the Netherlands.
In Rotterdam she studied Tango in the World Music department. There, she had the chance to play many styles of music includingTango, Flamenco, and Salsa; nevertheless, after a couple of years, she returned to studying Classical music for the completion of a Bachelors and Masters degree in solo performance. Her teachers were Joshua Epstein, Benzion Shamir, and she followed master classes with the members of the Daniel Quartet and the Brodsky Quartet. "I remember fondly my teacher Kaoru Kakudo," says Vanessa, "whom I lost to cancer during my last year at the conservatorium."
Vanessa is now exploring the world of Klezmer music and improvisation.
Vanessa is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she also teaches.
