At seventeen, Dutch harpist GWYNETH WENTINK won First Prize in the 1999 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the first solo harpist to win a place on the Young Concert Artists roster.  Ms. Wentink was also awarded the Beracasa Foundation Prize for a performance at the Montpellier Radio-France Festival and the Mortimer Levitt Award for Women Artists, which sponsored her New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at the 92nd Street Y in 2000.  Ms. Wentink also debuted in Boston that year, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as well as in Washington, DC. 

During the 2000-2001 season, Ms. Wentink gave her New York concerto debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at Alice Tully Hall with the New York Chamber Symphony, and she performed at the Morgan Library in New York with YCA alumna flutist Eugenia Zukerman in a special series celebrating the 40th anniversary of Young Concert Artists.  This season, the 2001-2002 Young Concert Artists Series will present her at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall on March 4, 2002, with YCA violinist Ju-Young Baek.  She also performs as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque and the Symphony of the Americas in Fort Lauderdale and gives a recital at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia this season.

Ms. Wentink has been capturing First Prizes since the age of eleven.  In 1998, she won the prestigious International Harp Competition in Israel and the Gulbenkian Prize for best performance of the new R. Murray Schafer Harp Concerto.  The Victor Salvi Foundation has provided Ms. Wentink with generous sponsorship, including her debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall, the gift of a new Salvi Harp, and a debut CD.  Ms. Wentink also won First Prize in the 1998 Torneo Internazionale di Musica in Rome and First Prize in the 1996 International Harp Competition in Tokyo, Japan.  Most recently, Ms. Wentink was awarded the 2001 Netherland-America Foundation Prize. 

Gwyneth Wentink has performed as soloist with I Fiamminghi in Brussels under the baton of Rudolph Werthen, the Lille Philharmonia in France, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, the Nieuw Sinfonietta in Amsterdam, the Orquesta Sinfonica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho in Caracas, Venezuela, and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra.  She has given recitals at Wigmore Hall in London and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as in Bucharest, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Venice, Rotterdam, Prague and Tel Aviv.