Heinz Holliger
Oboe
Heinz Holliger was born in Langenthal (Switzerland, canton of Berne) on 21 May 1939. During his grammar-school education he already studied oboe with Emile Cassagnaud at the Conservatoire of Berne and composition with Sándor Veress. From 1958 he continued his studies with Yvonne Lefébure (piano) and Pierre Pierlot (oboe) in Paris. Between 1961 and 1963 […]
Daniel Haefliger
Violoncello
A versatile musician, Daniel Haefliger is as renowned as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher as he is as organizer, lecturer and translator, and has also initiated numerous educational and musicology projects. As a cello player, trained by Pierre Fournier and André Navarra, he has performed regularly in important music centres such as Berlin, London, […]
Jürg Dähler
Viola
Jürg Dähler, born in Zurich, studied the violin with Hedwig Maey, Sándor Végh and Heribert Lauer, and the viola with Christoph Schiller and Fjodor Drushinin. He went on to study with Pinchas Zukerman and Kim Kashkashian. Following his debut at the Tonhalle in Zurich with the world premiere of Daniel Schnyder’s viola concerto, dedicated to […]
Kirill Zvegintsov
Piano
Kirill Zvegintsov was invited to take part in the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Davos Festival, Festival Piano à Saint-Ursanne, Murten Classics, Musikfestival Bern, SeetalClassics, Musiksommer am Zürichsee; he performed in such famous concert halls as salle Cortot/Paris, Naxoshalle in Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim National Theater and Casino Berne among others. Kirill Zvegintsov is a multiple prize-winner of […]
Thomas Zehetmair
Violin, composer
Thomas Zehetmair’s ability to skillfully blend his musical interests is unparalleled. He enjoys widespread international acclaim not only as a violinist, but also a conductor and chamber musician, making him one of the most prominent artistic personalities of today. Since the 2019/20 season he is Chief Conductor of the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester as well as from […]
Ilya Gringolts
Violin
Ilya Gringolts wins over audiences with his highly virtuosic playing and sophisticated interpretations and is always seeking out new musical challenges. As a sought-after soloist, Ilya Gringolts devotes himself to the great orchestral repertoire as well as to contemporary and rare works; he is also interested in historical performance practices. His concert programmes include […]
Ruth Killius
Viola
Ruth Killius studied with Ulrich Koch and Kim Kashkashian and was principal viola player of the Camerata Bern. She played as soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Camerata Salzburg, Basler Sinfonie Orchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Symphony […]
Peter Laul
Piano
Peter Laul was born in St.Petersburg in 1977 . In 2000 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatoire (class of Alexander Sandler) He is a laureate of international competitions: 1995 – the 3rd prize and the special prize for the best performance of Bach at the International piano competition in Bremen; 1997 – […]
Marie-Lise Schüpbach
English horn
Marie-Lise Schüpbach was born in Zurich, where she studied oboe at the conservatory with Marcel Saillet and André Raoul. She went on to study with Heinz Holliger in Freiburg im Breisgau, where she graduated with honor. Her orchestral career began with the Cologne Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester. In 1979, she took the position of solo English horn at […]
Irene Abrigo
Violin
Winner of the 2015 Respighi Prize 2015, Irene Abrigo has made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2016 with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, performing the NY première of the violin concerto by Dirk Brossé “Black, White and in Between”. In 2016 she also performs in Brazil the south America première of the Respighi’s Violin […]
Hanna Weinmeister
Violin
Hanna Weinmeister was born in Salzburg in 1969, and whilst still at school she studied under Bruno Stein-schaden at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. After matriculating she studied first under Gerhard Schulz at the Vienna Musikhochschule, and then for two years in the Master Class of Zakhar Bronn in Lübeck. At an early age Hanna Weinmeister […]
Sarah Wegener
Soprano
Sarah Wegener brings captivating intensity to every role she performs. With her warm timbre, she has thrilled audiences in orchestral songs by Strauss under Mariss Jansons and Vladimir Jurowski, in Strauss’s Four Last Songs conducted by Daniel Harding, and in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony under the batons of Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Petrenko, James Conlon, Eliahu Inbal, […]
Felix Renggli
Flute
Felix Renggli was born in Basel/Switzerland and studied the flute with Gerhard Hildenbrand, Peter-Lukas Graf and Aurèle Nicolet. He gave up his chair as a solo flautist with the Symphony Orchestra of St. Gallen, to start a freelance career in the same position with several orchestras in Europe (Tonhalle Zürich, Festival Orchestra Lucerne, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Chamber […]
Christian Lampert
Horn
Christian Lampert was educated by the horn professors Francesco Raselli (Basel), Mahir Cakar (Stuttgart) and Erich Penzel (Cologne). He received various awards, among them the prizes in the International Music Competition in Markneukirchen, as well as the German National Music Competition in Bonn.Prof. Christian Lampert was educated by the horn professors Francesco Raselli (Basel), Mahir […]
Florent Héau
Clarinet
Leonid Zurkov
Oboe
The Russian oboist Leonid Surkov was born in 2000 in Moscow. He began his musical training at the age of seven and continued his studies at the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow under Denis Osver. Since 2019, he has studied at the Berlin University of the Arts in the class of Washington Barella. During […]
Sarah O’Brien
Harp
Sarah O’Brien is an extraordinarily versatile harpist who proves that the harp is no longer to be confined to a narrow Romantic frame but has a voice of its own, from baroque to contemporary literature. Sarah O’Brien has been principal harpist with the royal Concertgebouw orchestra Amsterdam and the Munich philharmonic for over 20 years. […]
Diego Chenna
Bassoon
Diego Chenna studied bassoon with V. Menghini at the Conservatory of Music in Turin and with Sergio Azzolini at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. At the same time, he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester as well as the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado, who also invited him to play […]
Juliane Banse
Soprano
With her diverse and extensive repertoire, few artists of her generation are as successful as soprano Juliane Banse. Her operatic repertoire ranges from the Marschallin, Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira, Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Genoveva (title role), Leonore, to Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Arabella and Grete (Schreker’s Der ferne Klang). Her artistic breakthrough came […]
Benjamin Appl
Baritone
Hailed as ‘the most promising of today’s up-and-coming song recitalists’ (Financial Times), baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated by audiences and critics alike for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ with ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Suddeutsche Zeitung), ‘exacting attention to text’ (New York Times), and artistry […]
James Baillieu
Piano
Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’ James Baillieu is one of the leading song and chamber music pianists of his generation. He has given solo and chamber recitals throughout the world and collaborates with a wide range of singers and instrumentalists including Benjamin Appl, Jamie Barton, Ian Bostridge, Allan […]
Zora Slokar
Horn
Born in Bern, Zora Slokar first studied the violin before beginning the horn at the age of 16. She initially received lessons from her father, then continued her studies at the Hochschule der Künste Bern in the class of Thomas Müller. At the same time, she pursued her violin studies and obtained her teaching diploma […]
Diemut Poppen
Viola
Diemut Poppen is one of the most outstanding violists of her generation. The times: ” Diemut Poppen is one of the Artist we would like to hear more often in London”. Born into a musical family in Germany she started playing the violin at the age of seven, giving her first concerts as a soloist […]
Enrico Filippo Maligno
Violin
Enrico Filippo graduated from the Conservatory of Vicenza in 2008 with highest honours and distinction. During his studies, he worked with Marco Rogliano, Giovanni Angeleri and Ilya Grubert. From 2009 onwards, he continued his studies privately in Berlin with Christophe Horak, second violin principal of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2015, he obtained a Master’s degree […]
Francesco Sica
Violin
Francesco Sica was born in Sicily into a musical family. He began studying the violin at the age of seven at the Conservatorio di Catania, where he graduated with distinction. After advanced studies with Felice Cusano at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, he continued his education at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst […]
Rafael Rosenfeld
Violoncello
Rafael Rosenfeld, born in Lucerne, is one of the most versatile cellists of his generation. He trained with Walter Grimmer in Zurich and David Geringas in Lübeck; equally formative were his encounters with Sándor Végh, György Kurtág, András Schiff, Radu Lupu, Steven Isserlis and Bernard Greenhouse. His international breakthrough came in 1994, when he reached […]
Enrico Bronzi
Violoncello
Born in Parma in 1973, Enrico Bronzi is the cellist of the Trio di Parma, with whom he has carried on an intense concert activity since 1990 appearing in the most important concert halls of Europe, the United States, South America and Australia (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Filarmonica in Berlin, Konzerthaus […]
Mary Ellen Woodside
Violin
First violinist of the Merel Quartet, M.E. Woodside is a passionate chamber musician, performing in the Wigmore Hall, London, Tonhalle, Zürich, and in festivals such as Salzburger Festspiele, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Lucerne Festival, Ittingen Whitsun Concerts and Omaggio a Palladio in Vicenza. Chamber music partners have included Sir Andras Schiff, Julian Pregardien, Ian Bostridge, Yura […]
Winterthurer Streichquartett
String Quartet
The Winterthurer Streichquartett is made up of the principal players of the Musikkollegium Winterthur and has performed under this name since 1920, though concerts in this formation date back as far as 1873. Today, the quartet consists of Bogdan Božović, Francesco Sica, Jürg Dähler, and, as of February 1, 2025, Flurin Cuonz. The existence of […]
Flurin Cuonz
Violoncello
Flurin Cuonz was born in Winterthur in 1986. Beginning in 2005, he studied with Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich, where he earned his teaching diploma with honors in 2009. Three years later, he earned his Master of Performance degree in the class of Clemens Hagen in Salzburg, also with honors. Already during his studies, Flurin won […]
