Since September 2022, she is Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where she studies with Augustin Dumay.
In May 2023, Hawijch Elders won the first prize at the 8th International Violin Competition Henri Marteau,[1][2] with a performance of Paganini's first violin concerto with the Hofer Symphoniker conducted by Christoph-Mathias Mueller, and she received special awards for the interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Max Reger and Henri Marteau.
[6] During 2018, at the Netherlands violin competition "Oskar Back", Hawijch Elders won the second prize and the Audience Award.
[7] She made her debut in Bozar, Brussels, in March 2023, performing Mozart’s fourth Violin Concerto with the Wiener KammerOrchester conducted by Augustin Dumay.
Hawijch Elders plays a Gennaro Gagliano violin (Naples ca.1755) and a Dominique Peccatte bow on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.