Maria Lindal studied violin at The Royal College of Music with Josef Grünfarb. She continued her studies in London with Andrew Watkinson playing modern violin and with Marc Destrube playing baroque violin. After 1994 Maria worked as a conductor at the Drottningholm Court Theatre and after 2014 she was employed as head of music.
In 1998 Maria started the Rebaroque Orchestra which was quickly established, both in Sweden and internationally, as an exciting and colorful orchestra on the baroque scene.
Maria has solid experience of what we today call “period music” and has always been especially interested in music theory, a useful skill when she taught chamber music and baroque violin at the Antwerp Academy of Music 1990-1995.
Maria is a modern musician who, in addition to immersing herself in different styles and developing these in her violin playing, also creates her own performances where she builds musical dramas from the ground up, leads the musical rehearsal work and “conducts” with the violin. Like a new kind of “Stehgeiger”. She is also known by Swedish radio listeners through her many radio programs, where she mixes her knowledge of different eras, with historical facts that one usually does not get to learn, as well as personal experiences and stories.
In 2008, Maria was awarded Expressen’s culture prize Spelmannen with the comment, “Play and to play are analogous concepts in most languages except in Swedish. Maria Lindal demonstrates that it should be. In the orchestra Rebaroque, she plays out the art without leaving folk music heritage out of sight. Maria Lindal combines an individual championship with enthusiastic leadership. If it sounds good in baroque music, you can trust that Maria Lindal is involved.
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