Tatjana Masurenko

Since 2018, she has intensively played the viola d’amore, developing her repertoire in the baroque, classic and modern styles for this instrument.

Masurenko has devoted herself to historically informed performance, particularly to the 19th century and the romantic repertoire. Inspired by Jesper Christensen’s ideas, she works with pianist Gilad Katznelson, also using historical sound documents, on questions concerning the interpretation of this music, the results of which were published on the CD "Just a motion on the air" in 2017.

Since 2010, Masurenko has also been performing classical folklore in various programmes with ensembles such as the Volga Virtuoso Quartet (Russian folk instruments) and KOTTOS from Copenhague (international folklore with various flutes, guitar, cello and accordion).

Masurenko is the artistic director of the Iznik International Viola Camp in Turkey and the chamber music series "Viola plus" at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig. In 2008, she initiated an annual masterclass for viola in Leipzig, which she also directs. Masurenko was professor of viola at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig from 2002 to 2022 and in the same position, teaches at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Sion, Switzerland since 2019. In June 2022, she was appointed to faculty by the Colburn School, Los Angeles. Many of her students have built successful careers and are internationally active as soloists, professors, solo violists in major orchestras and as chamber musicians. Her teaching method is based on the St Petersburg tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries and merges with the new ideas and perceptions of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially regarding the interpretation of the baroque and classical periods.

Tatjana Masurenko (born 21 January 1965) is a German violist of Russian descent.

She plays a viola by Paolo Antonio Testore, made in Milan in 1756, and an instrument specially built for her by Jürgen Manthey (Leipzig 2017), a luthier developing new acoustic and tonal designs. She also plays a viola d’amore by Charles Jacquot, Paris 1849. She uses different bows for different periods of music.