Program 2010

Maison de la musique,
Martigny

Rue de la Maladière 11 

• Administrator of the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne since 1991

• Administrator of the "Salle Métropole" of Lausanne since 1991

• Director of the Clara Haskil International piano Competition since 1991

• Member of the Council of CLAVES society (editor of CD) since 2003

• President of the Swiss Association of the Professionals Orchestra, Bern, since 2005

• Member of the Council of the High Music School of Lausanne since 2008

Part of a musicians’ family, Adrian Chamorro begins his studies of violin at the age of 4 to his native city, Bogotá. Five years later he gives his first recital at the National Television of Colombia. 

In 1973, A. Chamorro gains a scholarship from the Moscow Academy where he graduates as concert performer and professor of violin in the class of Boris Bielenky. He also attends the courses of leading of Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, discipline which he studies later with Jorma Panula in Finland.

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Francesco De Angelis

Francesco De Angelis is both leader and soloist of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and Filarmonica della Scala. He is internationally acclaimed as one of the major talented musician by critics and public alike. The peculiarity of his performances is an unmistakable romantic sound blended with the Bel canto style and with the rigour of the middle-European instrumental tradition.

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Nam Yun Kim

Nam Yun Kim's international career as a soloist began after her studies in Seoul and New York under Felix Garlimir and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and following top awards at numerous music competitions in Europe (e.g. Tibor Varga/Switzerland) and the USA (Washington, New York, Los Angeles).

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Jacques Mayencourt

Jacques Mayencourt was born in Sion (Canton of Valais). He attends the class of Tibor Varga at the Music Academy of Detmold (Germany). From 1982 to 1985, he was the assistant of Tibor Varga and obtains his alto virtuosity in 1985, then a concert licence in 1987, each "summa cum laude".

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Veronica
Schreiber-Kadlubkiewicz

Violinist Veronica Kadlubkiewicz - graduate with highest honors of the Warsaw Academy of Music in Poland, continued her studies in the USA with Henryk Szeryng, Roman Totenberg  and Paul Zukofsky. Finalist of Alberto Curci Competition in Naples, Italy she has received a special award from the Rockefeller Competition for Excellence in American Music in Washington D.C. 

 An avid performer of unaccompanied violin recitals Ms.Kadlubkiewicz has also played as soloist with orchestras in USA, Poland, Italy and Spain and appeared frequently at such festivals as Marlboro Music, Bach Aria Festival, Monadnock Music and Warsaw Autumn Festival.

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Gilbert Varga

Gilbert Varga, son of the celebrated Hungarian violinist, Tibor Varga, studied under three very different and distinctive maestros: Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Charles Bruck. Renowned for his commanding and elegant baton technique, Varga has held positions with and guest conducted many of the major orchestras throughout the world. In the earlier part of his conducting career Varga concentrated on work with chamber orchestras, particularly the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra, before rapidly developing a reputation as a symphonic conductor.

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Ulrich Koella is much in demand as  a chamber musician and accompanist – working among others with renowned artists Olaf Bär, François Benda, Eduard Brunner, Thomas Friedli, James Galway, Ulrike Helzel, Wolfgang Holzmair, Sharon Kam, Kari Lövaas, Laszlo Polgar, Eugene Rousseau, Andreas Schmidt, Bo Skovhus, Raphael Wallfisch and Hanna Weinmeister. His concert activities have led him to most European countries, the Middle East, Japan, China, Canada, Argentina and the USA.

He has recorded several CD’s with various chamber music partners for claves, Tudor, Centaur, Ars Musici and CRC (China), most recently the complete music for violin and piano by Othmar Schoeck with Simone Zrgaggen, a CD with works by American composers together with flutist Brooks De Wetter-Smith and three recordings with the Chinese flutist Sanqing Chen.

 Ulrich Koella has performed several complete cycles of the Beethoven violin sonatas and cello-piano works with Swiss violinist Simone Zgraggen and British cellist Raphael Wallfisch.

 He is professor for piano chamber music at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Switzerland) and gives masterclasses in Israel, the USA, China and Switzerland.

Petya Mihneva, from Bulgaria, graduated from the Music School "Hristina Morfova" and in 2001 won the Special prize at the International Competition "The Music and the Earth". 

She studied at the National Music Academy in Sofia until 2004, and three years later completed the Konzertdiplom at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland in the class of Prof. Rada Petkova. In that time she has given numerous concerts as a soloist and chamber musician around Europe, and won 1st prize and special prize at the International Competition "Classic and Contemporaries" and the special prize at the National Competition for piano duos "Seiler" in Bulgaria. 

She completed with excellence the Chambermusic Diploma at the Music Conservatory Zürich  in the class of Prof. Eckart Heiligers and is in high demand as a pianist, chamber musician and accompanist around Switzerland, Europe and overseas. In February 2009 she became an official accompanist at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.             

J. Sibelius

J. Sibelius

P. Tchaïkovski

P. Tchaïkovski