Violinist Vera Beths was born in Haarlem, Holland. In 1969 she won the First Prize of the Dutch National Oskar Back Competition, and in that same year she was awarded the Prix d'Excellence. Winning the Oskar Back Prize enabled her to study in New York with Ivan Galamian. In the summers spent in the USA, she played at Rudolf Serkin’s Marlboro Festival in Vermont. She now teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and, in the United States, at Marlboro.
A champion of contemporary music, she spent many years with the Rondom Kwartet which specialized in this repertoire.
In the realm of more traditional chamber music, Beths also performs with Archubudelli, an ensemble that uses instruments strung with gut strings,and performsf eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music.
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GEORGE GERSHWIN