News and Projects

Michaela's Music House, The Magic of the Violin

Gwendolyn's approach to teaching, captured within the pages of Michaela's Music House, The Magic of the Violin, which she wrote aged 21 and revised some years later, was published in 2009. The award-winning 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, The Magic of the Violin is illustrated by Colm Mac Athlaoich, contains photography by Martin Möll and calligraphy by Rhea Matter, is designed by designworks' Katy Judge and published by Müller & Schade.

Gaia Chamber Music Festival

In 2006, Hohenstaufen, Stuttgart, was host to a new chamber music festival created and artistically directed by Gwendolyn Masin. 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.

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.
In 2010, In Search of Lost Time will produce the premier of a composition by Thorsten Encke entitled "Paul Klee Splitter". The contemporary work will be performed by Ensemble Inter Pares at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne, Switzerland. For more information within Gwendolyn's website, please see Reviews/Articles.

The above project and all parts of it are licenced under Creative Commons

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. Gwendolyn continues to guide the festival - please visit Carrick Water Music Festival for this year's performances.

15²

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.

Mixed Media - Gwendolyn and the Arts

(An outtake of past adventures):

Release on Everest Records

Gwendolyn and Benfay collaborated once again in 2009 - this time on "Universal Time" conceived around Gwendolyn's violin-playing for his highly-acclaimed album Replay Life, released on Everest Records.

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.

Installation

Gwendolyn partnered with Franticek Klossner for the installation Nimm das Ding. It was on show as part of the BESTFORM exhibition, which was presented by the Bernese Foundation for Applied Art, and was on display from the 4th of November until the 4th of December 2005 in the PROGR Zentrum für Kulturproduktion in Berne (PROGR Center for Culture).

Ortung / Localisation

By invitation of Franticek Klossner and Don Li, Swiss video artist and composer respectively, Gwendolyn was commissioned to interpret the soundtrack of Klossner's film. Entitled Ortung or Localisation, it was shown on Berne's Bundesplatz on the 31st of July and the 1st of August 2004 as part of Switzerland's annual celebrations and the reopening of its capital city's Parliament Square.

Release on Thinnerism

Gwendolyn lent her voice through spoken word to Benfay's release on the Netlabel Thinnerism called One Touch Button Music. The two compositions she is featured on are Warm Home and Jack and Jill. She wrote the texts in 2002 whilst travelling between Ireland and Switzerland. Both pieces were in the Top 10 of Scene in the month of April 2004.
In the summer of 2004 both pieces were remixed by several illustrious producers such as Dennis de Santis (Berlin) and Tpolar (Belfast) and released on the album One Touch Button Remixes LP.