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Karin van Kooten

Violin

| Netherlands

Karin van Kooten is a classically trained but broadly oriented improvising violinist with a great love for swing, performing in many styles like classical, jazz, gipsy and folk music. After taking lessons with Oene van Geel and Tim Kliphuis, she found her home in Paris, where during two years she was taught by Didier Lockwood. She has performed with Pigalle 44 and a former member of the North Sea String Quartet.