Annie Dutoit

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Annie Dutoit (born October 4, 1970 in Bern ) is a Swiss professor , reciter , actress and music journalist. She teaches at Arizona State University and has appeared on stage in various plays in several countries.

Live and act

Annie Dutoit was born in the gynecological clinic in Bern in 1970 . She is the daughter of the Swiss-Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich and the Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit . Dutoit studied Latin and Greek and earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Princeton University . She then completed a Masters Degree in Journalism from New York University and a PhD in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University . In her dissertation , she dealt with the interaction between politics and the aesthetics of anti-Semitic writings in France . She has taught at various American universities, including Barnard College in New York, and is a professor at Arizona State University, where she teaches literature and the history of European ideas. While pursuing her academic career, Dutoit discovered a passion for performative art and has since worked as an actress and reciter .

Dutoit is the mother of two children and lives in Geneva, Brussels and Arizona. She is the daughter of Martha Argerich and Charles Dutoit .

Artistic activities

On the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II , she recited texts from survivors of the concentration camps and the atomic bomb in Hiroshima . A year later, in 2016, Dutoit was engaged for the classical music festival Septembre Musical in Montreux-Vevey . Also active in acting, Dutoit can be seen in John Cage's play The City wears a Slouched Hat and in Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat . Dutoit also played in pieces by Saint-Säens , Darius Milhaud and Ravel . She performed in the United States, Japan, Switzerland, France and Poland.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivier Bellamy: Martha Argerich: The lioness at the piano . Edition Elke Heidenreich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-05702-2 , London, Große Lieben ( google.ch [accessed on November 11, 2019]): “On October 4, 1970, something happened in the women's clinic in Bern .. . the most beautiful moment ...: Annie Dutoit was born. "
  2. ↑ a b Annie Dutoit à l'affiche du festival du Septembre Musical. In: RTS. August 25, 2016, accessed November 11, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Annie Dutoit. In: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. August 19, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Annie Dutoit (reciter). In: Argerich Arts. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Rodrigo Carrizo Couto: “Suiza es una pluralidad de identidades”. In: Swissinfo. September 8, 2016, Retrieved November 11, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Martha Argerich: A Tribute to Hiroshima. In: Kajimoto. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ WELT: Tips of the day: Martha Argerich with her family . June 24, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed November 11, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Dutoit, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss literary scholar, university professor, reciter, actress and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern