Chiara Banchini

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Chiara Banchini (born October 7, 1946 in Lugano ) is a Swiss violinist and conductor .

Life

Chiara Banchini received her first violin lessons in her hometown with Louis Gay des Combes (* 1914), afterwards she studied at the Geneva Conservatory with Corrado Romano (1920–2003), afterwards she completed her studies with Sándor Végh . As a member of the “Contrechamp” ensemble, she dealt with contemporary music.

The encounters with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sigiswald Kuijken sparked her passion for baroque music and historical performance practice . From 1975 she specialized in the baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken , where she witnessed the beginnings of Kuijken's ensemble La Petite Bande . Research into music history allowed her to completely redesign her repertoire and find her personal style.

After her training, she taught baroque violin at the Scuola Civica de Milan in Milan at the Center for Early Music in Geneva before receiving a professorship at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , which she held from 1991 to 2010. In 1981 Chiara Banchini founded the " Ensemble 415 " with which she gave a farewell concert in January 2011, modeled on the great Arcangelo Corellis orchestra , with more than 60 musicians. In addition to her work as an ensemble, she is a sought-after soloist and has received invitations to master classes around the world. There are many of her former students, who are now also among the main actors of the baroque scene

Her playing is characterized by virtuosity and fiery liveliness. Many of her recordings have been enthusiastically received by the relevant press and have won numerous international record awards, including the German Record Critics' Prize, the French Diapason d'or and the Prix ​​international du disque .

In 2014 she began a collaboration with the Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra , where she shares the direction of the harpsichordist Claudio Astronio, the flutist Giovanni Antonini and the oboist Alfredo Bernardini .

Chiara Banchini plays on a violin attributed to Nicola Amati from 1674 and on an instrument by Gagliano for the late classical and early romantic repertoire

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Farewell concert 2011. accessed on March 10, 2012
  2. ↑ CV. Allmusic.com
  3. ↑ Theresia-Online Conductors (accessed July 28, 2020)
  4. ↑ Chiara Banchini. ricercamusica.ch (Italian) Retrieved on: October 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Banchini, Chiara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano