{"id":1001,"date":"2014-10-20T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/vita\/xandi-van-dijk\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T22:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:53:48","slug":"xandivandijk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/vita\/xandivandijk\/","title":{"rendered":"Xandi van Dijk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-0d018554068793542fa0f9879b2056ae\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-0d018554068793542fa0f9879b2056ae img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-0d018554068793542fa0f9879b2056ae .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-0d018554068793542fa0f9879b2056ae av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-3578 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-3578 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xandi-for-bio-0B1A0713.jpg\" alt='' title='xandi-for-bio-0b1a0713'  height=\"527\" width=\"1400\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xandi-for-bio-0B1A0713.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xandi-for-bio-0B1A0713-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xandi-for-bio-0B1A0713-1030x388.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xandi-for-bio-0B1A0713-705x265.jpg 705w, https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Xandi-for-bio-0B1A0713-450x169.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Xandi van Dijk was born in Cape Town into a musical family and started playing the violin at the age of 4, switching to viola in 1990. After completing his studies at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town with Prof. Jack de Wet, Xandi became a founding member of the Cape Town-based Sontonga Quartet, and held the viola position from the quartet\u2019s inception in 2002 till December 2006. In this time, the Sontonga Quartet toured extensively both in South Africa and internationally, including performances at venues such as the Old Fort at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg; the Barbican Centre, London; Lincoln Centre and Central Park, New York and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne as an adjunct to the Commonwealth Games 2006.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Sontonga Quartet, Xandi has premiered over 30 South African works, as well as giving the South African premieres of works by Terry Riley, Osvaldo Golijov and Kevin Volans (with whom the quartet has worked), P\u00e4rt and Gorecki.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Prior to his involvement with the Sontonga Quartet, Xandi freelanced with various Cape Town orchestras. He has held the position of principal viola in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, USA, as well as being principal viola of the South African National Youth Orchestra for a number of years. Xandi has had masterclasses with Wolfram Christ, Lawrence Dutton, Isabel Charisius, Alberto Lysy and Christopher Rowland, as well as chamber classes with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, J\u00fcrgen Kussmaul, Eberhard Feltz, Henk Guittart, Philippe Graffin and Yo-Yo Ma.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Xandi has performed in Cape Town with London Philharmonic concertmaster Pieter Schoeman and the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, and in London at the Purcell Room with the electronica artist Mira Calix and Cadogan Hall with the Brodsky Quartet.<\/p>\n<p>Xandi holds a B.Mus in viola performance and a B.Mus (Hons) in conducting, both with distinction, from the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":913,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions\/2251"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/signumquartet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}