CREATIVE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT RESIDENCY

Yasaman Mashhouri

Iran | Age 29

Recorder / Baroque Violin

Scholarship Donor: Anonymous

Recorder player and baroque violinist

Yasaman Mashhouri was born in Tehran. At age 10, she began playing the recorder and taking her first violin lessons. The recorder impressed her so much that she learned it autodidactic. She went on to study biology at Tehran University, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Science. In 2017, she returned to a focus on music with studies in Vienna, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in recorder performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Carsten Eckert. Since 2021, she has been pursuing her master’s in recorder at the Hochschule für Musik Nuremberg in the class of Jeremias Schwarzer.

Yasaman has also been studying baroque violin with Pauline Nobes at the Würzburg University of Music since 2022. La flûtiste à bec et violoniste baroque Yasaman Mashhouri est née à Téhéran. La flûte à bec l’impressionne tellement qu’elle l’apprend en autodidacte. En 2017, elle étudie à Vienne, où elle obtient une licence de flûte à bec à l’University of Music and Performing Arts de Vienne avec Carsten Eckert. Depuis 2021, elle poursuit son master de flûte à bec à la Hochschule für Musik de Nuremberg, dans la classe de Jeremias Schwarzer. Elle étudie également le violon baroque avec Pauline Nobes à l’Université de musique de Würzburg depuis 2022.

Maxine Troglauer

Germany | Age 28

Bass Trombone

Scholarship Donor: Anonymous

Classical music, jazz, contemporary music—for Maxine Troglauer, these are not genres that can be easily separated from one another. They are organically interconnected resonance spaces that give the German bass trombonist the opportunity for a self-confident dialogue with the past. Maxine graduated with a master’s degree in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in 2021, where she studied bass trombone with Dave Taylor. A year later, she was Finalist in the Young Classical Artists Trust auditions (London) and was named winner of The Ritter Prize, awarded each year by the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation (Germany) for outstanding achievements by musicians. Her broad range of experience across musical genres has created a foundation for a diverse portfolio ranging from productions for NDR, BR, Deutsche Oper Berlin and the jazz label ECM, to solo concerts with orchestras, feminist musicals and TikTok operas.

Maxine a obtenu un master en performance contemporaine à la Manhattan School of Music en 2021, où elle a étudié le trombone basse avec Dave Taylor. Un an plus tard, elle a remporté le Prix Ritter, décerné chaque année par la Fondation Oscar et Vera Ritter (Allemagne) pour récompenser les réalisations exceptionnelles de musiciens. Sa vaste expérience lui a permis de constituer un portefeuille varié, allant de productions pour le Deutsche Oper Berlin et le label de jazz ECM, à des concerts en solo avec des orchestres, des comédies musicales féministes et des opéras TikTok.