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Clara Schumann(-Wieck) (1819 Leipzig – 1896 Frankfurt am Main) was a widely travelled pianist – appointed as Imperial and Royal Chamber Virtuoso – composer, piano teacher, and editor; in this unique capacity, she embodied the most significant German..
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Izabel Markova is born in 1997 in Sofia, Bulgaria in a non-musical family. She starts playing the piano at the age of 3 and then proceeds to enter the National School of Music “Lyubomir Pipkov” with the viola at the age of 11 without any experience in playing the violin in advance. She graduates in 2015 taking the two last academic years at once and gets accepted in Haute Ecole Musique de Lausanne, in Switzerland. In 2022 she graduated as a Master soloist student in the viola class of Professor Alexander Zemtsov.
Izabel is a laureate from international competitions for piano, viola and composition including the International String Competition, Serbia, Dobrin Petkov, Bulgaria, Artistes en Herbe, Luxemburg, First and EMCY Prize from the International Competition Young Virtuosos, Bulgaria and Special Prize of Blatow Foundation from the International Anton Rubinstein Competition, Düsseldorf.
Izabel is a laureate from international competitions for piano, viola and composition including the International String Competition, Serbia, Dobrin Petkov, Bulgaria, Artistes en Herbe, Luxemburg, First and EMCY Prize from the International Competition Young Virtuosos, Bulgaria and Special Prize of Blatow Foundation from the International Anton Rubinstein Competition, Düsseldorf.
Roberto González-Monjas is an extremely sought-after conductor and violinist who has rapidly established an international reputation. He is Chief Conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Principal Guest Conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra as well as Chief Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in Spain. As of September 2024, he will also be Chief Conductor of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. As a committed educator, Roberto González-Monjas founded the Iberacademy together with conductor Alejandro Posada in 2013.
The institution aims to create an efficient and sustainable model of musical education in Latin America that focuses on disadvantaged sections of the population – as well as promoting highly talented young musicians.
The institution aims to create an efficient and sustainable model of musical education in Latin America that focuses on disadvantaged sections of the population – as well as promoting highly talented young musicians.
Swedish-American-French singer, violinist and composer, she began her musical training with classical violin and graduated from the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in Paris (CRR). She holds a Master’s degree at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in singing. She performed in Parisian venues such as Sunset-Sunside, La Bellevilloise, l’Entrepôt and in Switzerland at the Swiss national radio RTS, in Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux, Chorus Jazz Club in Lausanne and the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne 2020.
She arranges for various groups, and composes for film soundtracks. She works regularly with filmmakers such as Éléonore Geissler.
She arranges for various groups, and composes for film soundtracks. She works regularly with filmmakers such as Éléonore Geissler.
The Swiss Ukrainian pianist Andriy Dragan, currently based in Basel, regularly performs in Switzerland and Europe. His curiosity as a pianist has enabled him to optimize his musical work with new projects and an extended repertoire, including works by Franz Xaver Mozart and Ukrainian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and to inspire audiences. Andriy impressively proves this with Franz Xaver Mozart’s piano concertos, which still radiate surprising musical finesse to this day, more than 200 years after their composition.
One may ask why such masterpieces, particularly the Second Piano Concerto, have not “yet” entered the standard repertoire. This is probably primarily due to the “myth” of his famous father, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but probably also to the sometimes inadequate printed music material.
One may ask why such masterpieces, particularly the Second Piano Concerto, have not “yet” entered the standard repertoire. This is probably primarily due to the “myth” of his famous father, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but probably also to the sometimes inadequate printed music material.
Conductor Matthew Aubin speaks with US correspondent Thomas May about his ongoing revival of the 20th-century French composer Fernande Decruck.
For decades, French composer Fernande Decruck (1896–1954) was known only for her Sonata in C-sharp for alto saxophone, a staple of the classical saxophone repertoire. Many of her compositions were left unpublished at her untimely death at the age of 57...
Depuis 2001, les Sommets musicaux de Gstaad sont organisés, aux mois de janvier-février, dans ce lieu de villégiature réputé du canton suisse de Berne. Avec une attention particulière portée aux jeunes interprètes de tous pays qui se produisent au cours du festival et jouent du même instrument, différent chaque année. L’un d’entre eux est récompensé par le Prix Thierry Scherz, ainsi nommé depu...
L’Ensemble Astera est un quintette à vent franco-suisse fondé en 2019 par cinq musiciens diplômés de la Haute École de Musique de Lausanne. Nous les avons découverts le 7 octobre 2024, à l’occasion de la présentation de la programmation de l’édition 2025 du Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence. Ce n’était pas un simple intermède musical offert au public du Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, mais un...
"La jeune violoniste danoise Anna Agafia (°1996), actuellement artiste en résidence à la Chapelle musicale Reine Elisabeth, a obtenu en 2022 le Prix Thierry Scherz, parrainé par la Fondation Pro Scientia et Arte et les Amis des Sommets musicaux de la cité suisse de Gstaad. Décédé prématurément en 2014 à l’âge de 41 ans, Thierry Scherz était directeur artistique de ces Sommets musicaux. Comme l’...
