Mirjam Tschopp

Mirjam Tschopp (* 1976 in Zurich ) is a Swiss violinist and violist and has been a professor for both instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2019.

biography

Since her solo debut at the age of 13, Mirjam Tschopp , born in Zurich, has been giving concerts on both violin and viola and conceiving recital and chamber music programs in which she can easily switch between instruments and thus place works in new contexts.

Her projects with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as the world premiere under Semyon Bychkov of the violin concerto by Nicolas Bacri dedicated to her or her CDs of the violin and viola concertos by Ahmed Adnan Saygun, which received rave reviews around the world and were invited by first-class members, received a great response Sound bodies led. With “Women Composers” she also presented a highly regarded project. Her recording of the violin and viola sonatas by Dmitri Shostakowitsch was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards - referred to as a "reference recording" by the international press .

As a passionate chamber musician with Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Mandelring Quartet, Josef Suk, Martin Stadtfeld, Nicolas Altstaedt, Maximilian Hornung and, until 2015, with her Italian-Swiss piano trio Trio des Alpes . As Duo TschoppBovino , she and the pianist Riccardo Bovino have been devoting herself intensively to the sonata repertoire since 2004.

As a soloist she has played with orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony, the Camerata St. Petersburg, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Argentina, the Presidential Symphony Orchestra Ankara, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and worked with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, José Serebrier, Pinchas Steinberg, Ari Rasilainen, Marc Piollet, Howard Griffiths, Gabriel Feltz and Matthias Foremny.

She has performed in the Philharmonie Berlin, the Lincoln Center New York, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall London, the Philharmonie Cologne, the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Glazunov-Saal St. Petersburg, the Tonhalle Zurich and the Lucerne Festival , at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and at the Verbier Festival. Her tours as a member of Mutter's Virtuosi took her to some of the most important halls in Germany, Austria, China, Taiwan and Korea. The director Adrian Marthaler portrayed her in numerous TV productions for Swiss television.

The sole winner of the Max Rostal Competition for Viola 2000 in Berlin and recipient of the Swiss Ambassador's Award was supported by the Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. After her linguistic high school diploma, she studied violin with Aïda Stucki, Franco Gulli and Thomas Brandis and viola with Christoph Schiller and obtained teaching, concert qualification and soloist diplomas with distinction.

Mirjam Tschopp is a pedagogue out of passion and conviction, and teaching occupies a high place in her musical life. In 2019 she was appointed professor for violin and viola at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna mdw . Before that, she taught violin, viola, chamber music and teaching practice at the Innsbruck Conservatory from 2007 to 2012 and taught at the Zurich Conservatory from 2013 to 2019. She gives master classes at the Austrian Master Classes and at the Eva Lind Music Academy. She is also a member of the jury of several music competitions, an expert at music colleges and is committed to Rhapsody in School .

Recordings

• 2016 Shostakovich: Violin and Viola Sonatas (Genuin)
• 2014 "Women Composers" Clarke, Boulanger, Beach: piano trios, songs for soprano and trio (Dynamic)
• 2010 Klughardt: Violin Concerto (cpo)
• 2007 Saygun: Viola Concerto (cpo)
• 2005 Saygun: Violin Concerto (cpo)
• 1999 Müller-Zürich and Schaeuble: Double concerts (Swiss music scene)
• 1995 "Swiss Composers II" (Swiss Radio International)
• 1990 Bjelinski: "Concertino di Primavera" (Jecklin)

Awards

• 2006 Curci Violin Competition Naples (interpretation prize for contemporary work)
• 2003 Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation and Swiss Tonkünstlerverein (study award)
• 2001 “Swiss Ambassador's Award” London
• 2000 Max Rostal Viola Competition Berlin (sole winner)
• 2000 Concert Artists Guild International Competition New York (finalist violin)
• 1997–1999 Migros Culture Percentage (study award)
• 1994 Concours Eurovision (Swiss finalist)
• 1993/1994 Swiss Youth Music Competition (national 1st prize with distinction)

Web links

Official website