News and Projects
Michaela's Music House
Gwendolyn recently completed revising a manuscript she wrote when she was 21 named Michaela's Music House. It is a book on teaching methods and violin technique. The work is a mixture of fairy tales and fantasy stories, based on practised facts and written in a comprehensive form for children and adults alike. Michaela's Music House is illustrated by Colm Mac Athlaoich, with photography by Martin Möll and calligraphy by Rhea Matter. The book is approved by the European String Teachers Association. Gwendolyn's literary work is represented by the Internationaal Literatuur Bureau in Amsterdam. The Dutch version of the website can be found here.
Gaia Chamber Music Festival
In 2006, Hohenstaufen, Stuttgart, was host to a new chamber music festival. Created and artistically directed by Gwendolyn Masin and Rahel Maria Rilling, the occasion brought together both internationally renowned artists and rising stars. After the success of its first edition, the festival took place again in 2007 to sold-out venues. The impact of the festival has been such that in 2009, by invitation, the festival will take place for the first time in Switzerland. Visit Gaia Chamber Music Festival to find out more.
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In Search of Lost Time
Gwendolyn is founder and artistic director of the on-going project entitled In Search of Lost Time. The performances to be held under the ideal of this project will present music and literature as equal partners, highlighting how the two arts have inspired and influenced each other. The first project in the series was held in September 2004 in Dublin, subtitled Love's Delusion. A multi-disciplined event using the media of literature, drama and classical music, Love's Delusion showed on two occasions in the Spiegel Tent as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival, and in Dublin's Civic Theatre.
For more information within Gwendolyn's website, please see Reviews/Articles.
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Carrick Water Music Festival
Gwendolyn was appointed artistic director of the Carrick Water Music Festival in 2007. The festival takes place in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim in Ireland and features an international line-up of renowned artists from the worlds of classical, jazz and traditional music. View 2007's programme here.
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Gwendolyn and Ania Losinger are the two featured guest artists on this CD, recorded for the Tonus Music Records label. Originally composed by Don Li as a soundtrack, the music was so well received by audiences in 2004 that the score was extended and has now been released in 2007 as a complete opus. 15 Squared is available through iTunes, Tonus Music Records, MBop and EMusic, and can be listened to, in part, at IMEEM. More information in concern to the making of the work and the artists involved in the creative process can be found on Tonus Music Labor.
Music to the Sound of Melting Art 
In collaboration with the artist Franticek Klossner, Gwendolyn created the soundscapes for Klossner's ice busts entitled "Melting Selves".
The work was part of the "DIE OBERE HÄLFTE/ THE UPPER HALF - The Bust since Auguste Rodin" exhibition in the Städtische Museen Heilbronn/Municipal Museums Heilbronn, Germany, that was on display from 8 July until 9 October 2005, and later in the Museum Liner Appenzell, Switzerland. For the first time, the traditional sculptor thematic that experienced a decisive change in the 20th Century was illuminated in an international show.
The list of artists whose works were gathered in the exhibition include Auguste Rodin, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Maurizio Cattelan, Wang Fu, Katsura Funakoshi, Paul McCarthy , Marc Quinn and Rosemarie Trockel. The exhibition is available in print in a comprehensive catalogue: ISBN 3-89904-177-1 / Edition Braus / Wachter-Verlag
Violin Composition from Don Li
The eminent swiss composer and musician, Don Li, has started work on a new opus, commissioned by and dedicated to Gwendolyn. This composition has been financed by the City of Berne's Cultural Department and by the Kanton of Berne. The work will be premiered in 2008 in Tonus Music Labor in Berne.Violin Concerto from John Buckley
Ireland's foremost contemporary composer, John Buckley, is currently scoring his first violin concerto, commissioned by and dedicated to Gwendolyn. The work has been been financed in full by the Arts Council of Ireland and will be premiered in Dublin in 2009.Release on Thinnerism 
Gwendolyn lent her vocals in the form of spoken word on Benfay's release on the Netlabel Thinnerism called One Touch Button Music.
The two tracks she is featured on are Warm Home and Jack and Jill. She wrote the texts in 2002 whilst travelling between Ireland and Switzerland. Both tracks were in the Top 10 of Scene in the month of April 2004. In the summer of 2004 the two aforementioned tracks were remixed by several illustrious producers such as Dennis de Santis from Berlin and Tpolar from Belfast and released on the album One Touch Button Remixes LP.