Biography

Marjolein Vermeeren (1991) plays 2nd flute, with piccolo, in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra since 2018. She made her successful professional conducting debut with the Gothenburg Wind Orchestra in May 2022 and she has been working as guest conductor with several professional orchestras since then. The 25/26 season sees her returning to conduct Gothenburg Wind Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. She is also a guest conductor with the Royal Swedish Navy Band and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
She studied orchestra conducting privately on a scholarship with Glenn Mossop as her mentor. In 2021 she was appointed conductor in the department for children and youth education/development at GSO and has conducted several projects with young musicians side by side with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

She completed her Master’s degree with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London (2015) where she studied the flute with Karen Jones and William Bennett, piccolo with Patricia Morris and baroque flute with Lisa Beznosiuk. She was awarded the DipRAM, the Academy’s highest award for an outstanding performance in the final recital and the Katie Thomas Award for a combination of good work, conduct and general achievement. She won the Jonathan Myall Piccolo Prize in 2015 and some years after graduation Marjolein was awarded Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), an honorary degree for former students who have distinguished themselves in the profession.
In The Netherlands she completed a double bachelor degree at the Fontys School of Arts in Tilburg, studying the flute with Leon Berendse and Edith Van Dyck, as well as wind band conducting with Hardy Mertens and Louis Buskens. She has been assistant professor of flute at this conservatory from September 2016 until she moved to Sweden.
As a freelance flautist Marjolein has played regularly with the Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and LUDWIG Orchestra and she plays chamber music with ensemble Caplet.