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Evert Sillem is a versatile Dutch violinist and violist with an international education and extensive performance experience.

He began his violin studies with Coosje Wijzenbeek and continued under Davina van Wely and Philipp Hirschhorn at the Utrecht Conservatoire. Evert graduated from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and subsequently completed a postgraduate diploma at the Royal College of Music in London in the class of Grigori Zhislin.

He has participated in masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Merit Palas, Oleg Kryssa, Igor Oistrakh, and Asya Kushner. As a violist, he further developed his skills under the guidance of Vladimir Kossjanenko and Michael Kugel.

Evert studied violin-methodology with Qui van Woerdekom at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He also took  methodology-classes with Coosje Wijzenbeek and with Mimi Zweig at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

Evert is an Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM). After several years as first violinist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Las Palmas (Spain), he has also performed with various Dutch orchestras.

In addition to his private teaching studio in Amsterdam, he gives masterclasses both in the Netherlands and abroad, including France, Spain, and Cuba (guest lecturer at the Conservatorio Esteban Salas te Santiago de Cuba). He regularly performs with pianists and ensembles.

His students have won prizes in numerous Dutch competitions and have gone on to perform professionally, including Emma Roijackers, Jorinde Gray, Romée Ghoos, and Raven Mischke.

From 2008 to 2012, Evert was editor-in-chief of Arco, the Dutch-Flemish magazine of the European String Teachers Association. He also contributed to the development of the well-known Dutch violin method Zo speel ik viool.

Alongside his teaching studio in Amsterdam, Evert teaches violin and viola at Music School FluXus in Zaandam and the Vrije Muziekschool Spaarne in Haarlem.