Hugo Bollschweiler

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Hugo Bollschweiler (born October 25, 1970 in Zurich ) is a Swiss conductor , violist , composer , lyricist, poet and librettist .

education

Hugo Bollschweiler studied at the Conservatoire de Friborg , the Music Academy of the City of Basel , the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA) and the Zurich University of the Arts with Michel Rouilly , Christoph Schiller , Victoria Chiang and Roberto Diaz (viola) and Johannes Schlaefli, Christof Brunner, Marc Kissóczy and Markhand Thakar (conducting).

Act

Appearances at Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Lucerne, Donaueschingen, Davos, Montreux, Murten, Kuhmo, Les Arcs, Boswil and Yellow Barn Festivals.

From 2007 to 2009 artist-in-residence and professor of viola and chamber music at Northern Kentucky University (USA) and artistic director of the Norse Chamber Music Festival.

Lecturer at the College-Conservatory of Music Cincinnati Accent09 Festival, Norse Chamber Music Festival and Austin Chamber Music Festival and Workshop and master class at the Escola de Musica do Estado de Sao Paulo. Former solo violist of the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, the Orchester Philharmonique Suisse, the Young Swiss Chamber Orchestra, the Orchester de Chambre de Friborg, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the SJSO, the Capriccio Basel and the Orchester de Chambre de Neuchâtel.

Artistic director and conductor of the Schlieren City Orchestra, the Affoltern am Albis Orchestra Society, the Niederamt Orchestra Association, the Chur Orchestra Association and the Aargau Youth Symphony Orchestra .

Member of Galatea Quartet (CH), chamber music partner of Donald Weilerstein, Marc Johnson (Vermeer Quartet), Michael Strauss, Nicholas Mann, Katherine Murdock, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Randolph Bowman, Kurt Widmer , the Sarastro Quartet, Jupiter String Quartet, Basler Streichquartett and Peabody Trio. Guest artist and US tours with the Colorado, Coolidge and Azmari String Quartets (USA). Member of the Camerata Zurich and the Chamber Aartists Orchestra (CHAARTS).

Recordings and tours with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich Opera Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra , Collegium Novum Zurich and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Co-founder of the Capriccio Basel baroque orchestra.

Performances as a soloist with the Swiss Chamber Orchestra, the Orchester de Chambre de Neuchâtel, the Winterthur Symphony, the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra, Capriccio Basel, the Peabody Ensemble, the Chamber Orchestra 65, the orchestra of the Winterthur Zurich University of Music and the Zurich Orchestra Association.

World premieres of solo works by Bettina Skrzypczak , Daniel Hess and Rolf Urs Ringger . World premiere of Ringger's Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra Love is in the air (2007).

Compositions for orchestra, strings and wind instruments have been released on CD by VDE-Gallo, film programming and solo improvisations for short film soundtracks.

Awards

  • 2013: 2nd prize VALIANTforum Murtenclassics
  • 2001: 1st prize in the Koeckert Viola Competition
  • 2000: 1st prize VALIANTforum Murtenclassics
  • 1997: Olga Von Hartz Owens Memorial Prize in Strings of the Peabody Institute (USA)
  • 1993: Chamber Music Prize of the International Chamber Music Festival Austria

Discography (selection)

  • Galatea Quartet: Belle Epoque: Debussy, Menu et Milhaud , SONY, 2013
  • Coro Cantarina: Mozart: Requiem and Hess / Bollschweiler: Tageszeitlosen , VDE-Gallo, 2011
  • Swiss Chamber Orchestra: Bartók, Rautavaara, Schubert, Ringger (Hugo Bollschweiler, viola), VDE-Gallo, 2010
  • Collegium Novum Zurich: Jörg Widmann , NEOS, 2010
  • Orchester de Chambre de Neuchâtel: A British Spirit, Vaughan Williams, Rutter (Hugo Bollschweiler, viola), ARTLAB, 2004
  • Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra: Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante (Hugo Bollschweiler, viola), SJSO, 1996
  • Orchester de Chambre de Friborg: Grieg, Bollschweiler, Sibelius, Gerber, Tchaikovsky , VDE-Gallo, 1994

Write

  • Libretto for opera Ein unguarded Tag , 2012
  • Libretto for cantata Zeitzeitlosen , 2009
  • D. Hess: Stanzas , six songs for soprano, clarinet, violoncello and piano on texts by Franz Hohler and Hugo Bollschweiler, 2007/2008
  • Publication mundwurf, Lyrik, Frieling Verlag, Berlin, 2002
  • Advertising copy for brand affairs and Astramedia

composition

  • Fantasia (1988) for 4 violas, 5 '
  • 3 Intermezzi (1988) for 4 violas, 7 '
  • Elegy (1988) for 3 violas, 4 '
  • Small Suite (1988) for 2 violas and 2 violoncellos, 10 '
  • 4 miniatures (1988) for 5 violas, 5 '
  • Mourning Music (1989) for 2 violins, 2 violas and violoncello, 10 '
  • Hymne (1989) for violin, viola, clarinet and chamber choir, 4 '
  • three sonnets (1989) for 6 violas, 11 '
  • Concert rondo (1990) for viola and strings, 12 '
  • satyricon (1990) for string quartet, 6 '
  • seven epigrams (1991), for piano solo, 6 '
  • three madrigals (1991) for viola and bassoon, 9 '
  • solosuite no.1 (1991) for viola, 8 '
  • weisser turm (1991) solo suite no.2 for viola, 9 '
  • two pieces (1992) for piano solo, 5 '
  • Contrepoints concertants (1992) pour orchester à cordes, 20 '(Editions Musicales Lausanne-Musique)
  • "Furthermore spring, from near" (1994) for oboe solo, 5 '
  • "ave stanzen" (1995) for oboe d'amore and viola, 8 '
  • "lidom II" (1998) for string trio, 14 '

Varia

  • Crossover productions with singer-songwriters Muriel Anderson and Michael Ronstadt.
  • Singing lessons with Anneliese Fackler and Richard Cowan (USA).
  • Hugo Bollschweiler plays a viola by Santino Lavazza, Milan 1722.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master class de viola com Hugo Bollschweiler. (No longer available online.) In: emesp.org.br. Archived from the original on January 5, 2017 ; Retrieved July 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emesp.org.br
  2. ^ City Orchestra Schlieren. In: stadtorchesterschlieren.ch. Retrieved July 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Our conductor - Orchestergesellschaft Affoltern am Albis. In: oga-aa.ch. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Directory of Members. In: http://www.orchestervereinchur.ch . Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bollschweiler, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor, violist, composer, lyricist, poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich