Nicolas Farine
Nicolas Farine (* in Montfaucon JU ) is a Swiss pianist , conductor and trumpeter . He was president of the Swiss Society for New Music .
Life
Farine learned piano with Catherine Courvoisier and trumpet with Matthias Lehmann at the Conservatory in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He then studied conducting , musicology and piano with Marc Durand at the University of Montreal . He earned a Ph.D. in 1997. He also attended Otto-Werner Mueller's master classes at the Juilliard School , New York, with Salvador Mas Conde at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School, Maine.
He performed with the musicians Leon Fleisher , André Laplante , Marek Jablonski and Venislav Yankoff and played in North and South America and Europe. He is currently professor of chamber music at the Neuchâtel Conservatory and directs the choir and orchestra there. In addition, he took over the choir direction at the Geneva Conservatory .
He founded the Jeune Opéra Compagnie , which he heads to this day, and is a regular pianist with the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain . Farine was elected President of the Swiss Society for New Music SGNM (ISCM Switzerland) in 2010 and thus succeeded Max E. Keller , where he held this position until 2014.
Awards
- 1997: Winner of the Anne et Robert Bloch Foundation (FARB)
Web links
- Biography of Nicolas Farine (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicolas Farine new President of the SGNM. In: dissonances. December 7, 2010
- ↑ Emma Chatelain: Fondation Anne et Robert Bloch. In: Dictionnaire du Jura. October 10, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Farine, Nicolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pianist, conductor and trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montfaucon JU |