Rahel Senn

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Rahel Senn

Rachel Senn (* 14. September 1986 as Rachel Johanna Kai Zhiah Senn in Zurich ) is a Swiss - Singaporean pianist , composer , musical writer and novelist .

Career

Rahel Senn grew up as the daughter of a Swiss and a Singaporean in Switzerland and obtained her Matura in 2005 at the canton school Stadelhofen with a major in Latin . Celebrated as a child prodigy , she wrote her first musical at the age of 17 . The work entitled Total madness! gained national recognition and was awarded the Zurich Middle School Prize. In 2006 the seven-lingual Eurasian began studying law at the University of Lucerne , which she gave up in favor of studying music with the Russian-Jewish concert pianist Konstantin Lifschitz at the Lucerne School of Music . She graduated with a master's degree and worked as a piano teacher in various locations.

Between 2011 and 2012 she was hired by the Raffles Institution to set up a musical department and lived in Singapore during that time . In 2015 she founded the H. Steinweg Piano Academy in Zurich , a piano school for children and adults with an international focus.

As a writer, she has been accompanied by the Swiss author Charles Lewinsky since she was 18 . She has received grants from the Fritz Gerber Foundation for talented young people and from the Lyra Foundation for highly talented young musicians. Rahel Senn has published several CDs with her own compositions and a novel about Eduard Einstein , Albert Einstein's son . In 2012 she was the only Swiss woman to be named Young Steinway Artist . Forbes Asia magazine listed her as a Power Woman in the 2016 issue.

Rahel Senn has been under contract with the Sony Classical label since 2018 . On August 8, 2019, their first single, Ballade Pour Léon , was released under the major. On September 20, 2019, her first CD with her own compositions, Lightness, was released. For this she collaborated with the Berlin hit producers JMC ( Alice Merton , The Baseballs ), Hitnapperz ( Die Fantastischen Vier ), Ketan Bhatti and the Flying Steps . For her CD Epic (released on February 14, 2020 by Sony Classical and Norddeutscher Rundfunk ) with neoclassical hits such as I Giorni by Ludovico Einaudi and Interstellar by Hans Zimmer , the musician teamed up with Cameron Carpenter , Esther Abrami and the NDR Radiophilharmonie .

Works / publications

Orchestral works / musicals

Piano works / CDs

  • 2012: Retour à l'Art Brut for solo piano
  • 2014: Temps for solo piano
  • 2015: Opus Z for piano, string quartet and electronic instruments
  • 2017: Patagonia for piano and tape
  • 2019: Lightness ( Sony Classical )
  • 2020: Epic Orchestra (Sony Classical)

Literary works

Awards

  • 2005: Zurich Middle School Prize
  • 2005: Grant from the Lyra Foundation for gifted young musicians
  • 2009: Scholarship from the Ernst Göhner Foundation for talented young people
  • 2012: Young Steinway Artist, Steinway & Sons

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Exhibition of the Matura theses: 6/24/05 and list of the works awarded the special prize of the jury (PDF) City of Zurich, accessed June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Urs Bühler: Portrait Rahel Senn - Pleasure to play between divisions and worlds. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Article in the Tagesschau from December 4, 2015, SRF ( online ; from 9 p.m.)
  4. ↑ Denise Marquard: Would you like one more talent? In: Tages-Anzeiger , April 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ Urs Bühler: Portrait Rahel Senn - Pleasure to play between divisions and worlds. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ Jeux Interdits
  7. ↑ Young Steinway Artists - S , Steinway & Sons.
personal data
SURNAME Senner, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senn, Rahel Johanna Kai Zhiah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Singaporean pianist, composer, musical writer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland