Vita

The siblings Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler are specialists in the category violin duo. Raised in a musical environment – grandfather a musical director, mother a Cantor and harpsichordist – they achieved their high level of musicianship and unique sound after years of performing together. Their passion and main objective is not only to perfect the existing repertoire, but also to carry the tradition of “violin duo “into the current times.

That’s why The Twiolins premiered their own Progressive Classical Music Award in 2009 to expand and develop the repertoire for two violins. In 2012, the Twiolins were honored for that with the Helene Hecht Prize of the City of Mannheim. From the award-winning works the CD VIRTUOSO was created in 2011, followed in 2014 by SUNFIRE.  2017 they released the album SECRET PLACES and in 2021 the album EIGHT SEASON EVOLUTION, which both received the silver medal of the Global Music Awards.

Education

Both started to play violin at the age of 7 and participated already 4 years later in „Jugend musiziert“, a nation-wide competition, where they won the first award six times in the following years. Many other prizes during school time and study period followed.

Their talent was identified early and so they got junior students at the age fo 14 with Prof. Nodel at the University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. After they graduated school, they studied with Prof. Bratchkova, also in Mannheim, and finished their diploma of artistic education and solo education with best notes.

Solo perfomances and Media

As soloists they performed with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Baden-Baden, the Brandenburg State Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès (Barcelona), the New Ideas Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania), the Mannheimer Philharmonic, the Kurpfälzische Chamber Orchestra and appeared several times on TV and radio stations nationally and Internationally (SWR, SWR2, RBB, Center TV, Desh TV and many others).

Tours and references

They performed internationally in India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Tunisia, Spain, Italy, France, Lithuania, Austria and Switzerland, at national and international festivals (including Mozartfest Würzburg, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle Bielefeld, Stadttheater Amberg, Schwarzwald Musikfestival, Klassiksommer Hamm, Hohenloher Kultursommer, Weilburger Schlosskonzerte, Kultursommer Nordhessen, Musikerlebnis München, Kintai Music Festival Lithuania etc.).

They shared the stage or collaborated for artistic projects with known artists  like ‚Spark – the classic band‘ , Yuri Revich, Julian Rachlin and Aleksey Igudesman.

They play both a violin from Martin Schleske and recently a viola from Gentges and Scheid, Berlin.