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Inge began studying the violin at a very early age. "Making music was very important for me when I was young. When I was eight years old I started practicing on a simple violin. During the first years my teacher was Mr Van Pelt of Brielle. I didn't enjoy my lessons at the time, but gradually I started to love the music and this instrument."
During her study at the High School for Music and Dance in Rotterdam she played in the Youth Orchestra of the Rotterdam Conservatory, conducted by Joseph Schebal. With this orchestra she toured on a regular base and played for audiences in the Netherlands and abroad (among others in the Czech Republic and the USA). She also played in the ensemble of the High School for Music and Dance, conducted by Jacques van de Veerdonk, and had private lessons from great masters as Thijs Kramer and András Cifra.
After she finished the High School for Music and Dance Inge didn't touch the violin for a couple of years and began writing her own songs, singing them and accompanying herself with the guitar, which she taught herself to play. After several years she picked up the violin again and started to play by the feel of it, instead of just playing from sheet music. "In that way I was able to express my own feelings more. This resulted in a free and relaxed way of playing in which, until now, I keep on surprising myself and others as well. I don't play from sheet music anymore but purely by ear and intuition. I improvise and make up the melodies for songs myself. These discoveries are very exciting and there is always a new, unknown road ahead of me."
Her most prized possession is a 100 year-old acoustic violin. "That is really a part of me. My parents gave it to me when I was little." She also has a newer one, with which she used to play on the street as a teenager. "It's like an old cigar box." When playing for Aevericka she mainly plays an electrical violin, a Yamaha, which is a gift from her husband. For the electrical violin she has a distortion pedal (a Korg) with several effects.
A lot of artists influence Inge's music: Heather Nova, Norah Jones, Alanis Morrisette, Tori Amos and more experimental music with a lot of influences from different cultures like Loreena McKennitt and Dead Can Dance as well as ambient bands such as Engima. She appreciates violin player Maxim Vengerov. "He has a lot of qualities. When I was studying at the High School for Music and Dance I saw him playing live once in a Masterclass, conducted by Theo Olof, at the Rotterdam Conservatory. That was a great experience."
When Manon and Birgitte asked her to play the violin on their song For Aileen, Inge immediately said yes. The collaboration went so well that she decided to join the band as a full member quite soon afterwards.
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