Monica Germino

Monica Germino is an American and Dutch violinist. Germino spent her early years in Virginia, US. She is a graduate of Yale and the New England Conservatory. In 1993 she received a grant to study music in The Netherlands. Germino resides in The Netherlands. Monica Germino has performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, University of South Florida, at New York's Austrian Cultural Forum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Germino collaborates with "electronic sound designer" Frank van der Weij. Germino and Van der Weij have commissioned new works for violinist and sound designer from Julia Wolfe, Donnacha Dennehy, David Dramm, Arnoud Noordegraaf, Heiner Goebbels, Catherine Kontz, and Nick Williams. Germino commissioned a Violectra in 2003. Among the pieces written for her on this instrument include composer Robert Zuidam's new Requiem, Renske Vrolijk's 'Violectra Concerto', and David Dramm's 'Fuzzbox Logic'. She also performs with her group ELECTRA and the band Electric Barbarian. Germino frequently collaborates with the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and the singer Cristina Zavalloni. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)