Aline Champion
Aline Champion (born July 31, 1971 in Geneva ) is a Swiss violinist .
She started playing the violin at the age of five . At the age of twelve she was accepted as the youngest student to date at the Geneva Conservatory . There she was tutored by Tibor Varga , Pierre Amoyal and Yehudi Menuhin . In the same year she also made her solo debut at Victoria Hall . Since then she has appeared regularly as a soloist and chamber musician . In 1994 she completed her soloist diploma in Utrecht . In 1998 she became concert master of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne.
Aline Champion has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2000 . In 2005 she received an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory .
literature
- Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
Web links
- Portrait of Aline Champion on the Berliner Philharmoniker website
- “She plays the first fiddle in Berlin” - portrait and interview in Coop newspaper No. 3 of January 13, 2009
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Champion, Aline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |