About

Wilmien previously studied with Professor Jack de Wet in South Africa from 2010 and is currently completing her undergraduate degree as a pupil of professor Pieter Schoeman, leader of the LPO, at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the UK. She has received a Trinity Laban Scholar award for three years in a row and was additionally made a Shield scholar in 2017. In 2014 she completed her matric at Roedean School SA in Johannesburg, where she held the top cultural scholarship, with 4 A*s and 3 As. Since her solo debut at nine years old with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, she has since appeared annually as soloist with numerous orchestras all over South Africa. In 2006 she performed with the Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Winter Olympics stadium in Turin at the closing ceremony of the 14th International Suzuki Convention. She performed the Kabalevsky Concerto with the JPO in 2011. In the same year she was also taken up into the Unisa Music Foundation’s Program for Gifted Young Musicians.

Since 2010 she has appeared in the annual Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival under the batons of Gérard Korsten, Arjan Tien, Bernard Gueller and Evgeny Bushkov. As a duo, she and pianist Roelof Temmingh have won the ATKV National Ensemble Competition twice. In 2014, Wilmien won 1st prize at the Yamaha Lovemore Music Competition, as well as being selected to play in the semi-finals of the ATKV Muziq competition as one of only 2 high school students. Wilmien was also co-concertmaster of the South African National Youth Orchestra under the baton of Fredrik Burstedt, and toured South Africa with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington in January 2013. She was invited as guest concertmaster for the Decorus Consort Baroque ensemble for their season’s inaugural concert. At the age of 15, she was runner-up in the strings category at the Artscape Competition. Also the only high school student to play in the finals of the Unisa Music Directorate Competition in October 2014; Wilmien went on to win the strings category.

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Since studying at Trinity Laban, Wilmien has enjoyed plenty of exposure to orchestral playing with many of the UKs finest conductors, the latest being Douglas Boyd's performance with the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra. She has also been involved in the premieres of a number of contemporary composers' works - such as Stephen McNeff's opera Banished. As a passionate chamber musician, she performs as a member of several ensemble groups. She has performed alongside her teacher and fellow classmates Amelie Wurttemberg and Laura Hampe in Germany where they performed Mendelssohn's Octet and played solo in Vivaldi's concerto for four violins; the rest of the ensemble consisted of various professional musicians and students from different music colleges across Europe.