Noëlle Grüebler

Noëlle Grüebler (born December 11, 1983 in Zurich ) is a Swiss violinist .

Life

Noëlle Grüebler received her first violin lessons from her grandmother in Winterthur at the age of six . At the age of 15, she began studying music in Zurich and Bern alongside the canton school and also made her first violin studies with Herbert Scherz at the Lucerne Conservatory . She studied with Nora Chastain at the Musikhochschule Winterthur / Zurich and with Igor Ozim at the Musikhochschule Bern . At the age of 17 she passed the concert diploma with distinction. After graduating from high school , she continued her music studies, again with Igor Ozim, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg , Austria , where she received her master's degree with distinction in January 2006 .

Grüebler attended master classes with well-known artists such as Zakhar Bron , Shlomo Mintz or Ana Chumachenco . She has won numerous national and international competitions and has won numerous sponsorship awards. As a soloist, she has given concerts with several renowned orchestras such as the Salzburg University Orchestra , the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Howard Griffiths in the Tonhalle Zurich , the Glarner Musikkollegium, the Lucerne Festival Strings under Rudolf Baumgartner and the Hungarian Philharmonic Győr. In addition to her work as a soloist, she devotes herself to chamber music , performing in a duo , such as with the pianist Andrea Wiesli , and with the chamber music ensemble Trio Fontane . In addition to her concert activities, she is now studying music education in Salzburg.

In 2005, Grüebler went on a concert tour through Peru together with Andrea Wiesli , where the duo performed at the Chamber Music Festival in Lima . Since then she has given several benefit concerts with Wiesli for the Swiss Foundation for Social Services Paz Peru . In 2006 she appeared as a soloist at the Budapest Spring Festival, where she played two sonatas for violin and piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Trio in E flat major by Franz Schubert , as well as at the Swiss Music Festival. In the same year she was hired together with Bernd Leichtfried (piano) as a musical duo for the musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change by Jimmy Roberts , directed by Benedict Freitag . In March 2008 she made a guest appearance with the Zurich Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Escher with the 3rd Violin Concerto in B minor, op. 61 by Camille Saint-Saëns in the Tonhalle Zurich.

In April 2010 she gave a concert with works by Johann Sebastian together with the local church organist Stefan Schättin ( organ ) and her sister Cécile Grüebler ( cello ) in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Uster , which is known nationwide for its series of concerts and its organ festival Bach , Ernest Bloch , Gustav Adolf Merkel and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger . At the International Bodenseefestival 2010 she played works by Clara Schumann , Robert Schumann and Heinrich von Herzogenberg with the Trio Fontane . In June 2010 she accompanied the actor and speaker Klaus Henner Russius as a violinist at the performance of the piece Die Kreutzersonate by Leo N. Tolstoy in the Kulturschiene in Herrliberg - Feldmeilen .

Noëlle Grüebler lives in the village of Aathal near Zurich .

Awards (selection)

Grüebler has received several prizes and awards, including:

• 1992: Stresa International Youth Competition
• 1996: Swiss youth music competition
• 2003, 2004: Prize of the City of Piran
• 2004: Orpheus Concerts Award (together with Alexander Ruef, piano, as a duo)
• 2004: Renata Molinari-Competition Gstaad 2004 (together with the Trio Fontane)
• 2007: Migros Chamber Music Competition; Recognition award as the best piano trio (together with the Trio Fontane)

Web links

• Portrait of Noëlle Grüebler on the website of Trio Fontane
• Short biography of Noëlle Grüebler in Music and Youth (PDF file)
• Video: Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 [1] , [2] , [3]
• Ferdinand Ortner: Joyful and soulful . In: Toggenburger Tagblatt , February 23, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Madeleine Stäubli-Roduner: «My music should touch you deeply». Zürcher Oberländer , March 3, 2008, accessed on August 12, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Noëlle Grüebler. In: Website of the Trio Fontane. Trio Fontane, Switzerland, accessed August 12, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Short biography: Andrea Wiesli. (No longer available online.) In: Biographies of all participants in alphabetical order. Weinfelder Musikfestival 2008, archived from the original on October 14, 2013 ; Retrieved August 12, 2010 . 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.  
4. ↑ March 21: Noëlle Grüebler (violin), Hugo Smit (cello) and Dániel Lőwenberg (piano). In: Chamber concerts. Budapest Spring Festival 2006, accessed August 12, 2010 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Noëlle Grüebler, violin (soloist). (No longer available online.) In: Künstler 2006. Schweizer Musikfestwochen 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 12, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Good Friday concert. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Sonntagskonzerte Uster 2009/10. Evangelical Reformed Church Uster, April 2, 2010, formerly the original ; Retrieved August 12, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ^ Trio Fontane. (PDF) In: Schumann and Herzogenberg Days 2010 Heiden. Verein Internationale Herzogenberg-Gesellschaft, Heiden, May 2010, accessed on August 12, 2010 . 
8. ^ The Kreutzer Sonata. (PDF; 707 kB) In: 2010 culture rail (annual program). Kulturschiene, Herrliberg-Feldmeilen, p. 15 , accessed on August 12, 2010 (2010 annual program).