Salome Scheidegger

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Salome Scheidegger (* 1987 in Kyoto ) is a Swiss pianist , composer and performance artist .

Life

Salome Scheidegger was born as the second oldest daughter of a Swiss art historian and sinologist and a biochemist working in Japan . As a child, Salome Scheidegger was interested in traditional Japanese dance . She took lessons from Hanayagi Wasen and performed at the Kobe City Theater at the age of four . After the family returned to Switzerland in 1992, they could not continue their classical Japanese dance training. She started playing the piano and was initially taught in Lugano .

Training and scholarships

Salome Scheidegger began taking professional piano lessons in 1993. Her teachers included Patricia Pagny in Strasbourg , Galina Vracheva in Zurich as well as Françoise Parrot-Hanlet and David Lively at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris . From 2009 to 2010 she perfected her piano playing with Benjamin Kaplan in London . She dropped out of school in Zurich at the age of 16 in order to devote herself entirely to music. After receiving the artist visa for the United States, she went to New York in 2010 and studied at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival of the Mannes College of Music with Jerome Rose. In addition, she was a master student with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum Salzburg and with Paul Badura-Skoda at the Franz List University of Music in Weimar .

Salome Scheidegger received numerous grants and financial support, including a. from the LYRA Foundation, the Fritz-Gerber, Ernst Göhner and the Georg and Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Foundation, from Comicro-Netsys and the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Foundation.

Musical creation

At the age of eleven she won 2nd prize in a renowned piano competition in Italy. In the following years she successfully took part in international competitions and won numerous prizes. Salome Scheidegger debuted in 2004, accompanied by the Symphonic Orchestra of Zurich with the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the Tonhalle Zurich .

Since then she has been giving national and international solo and orchestral concerts on a regular basis. a. with the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, the State Hermitage Orchestra, the Hofer Symphoniker , the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra Musikkollegium Winterthur . Concert tours, solo appearances and performances with other artists have taken her to the United States, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Great Britain and Ireland. Salome Scheidegger has received invitations to international music festivals. a. for the 20th Davos Festival Young Artists in Concert and the Musical Olympus Festival in St. Petersburg.

In addition to classical concert concepts, the artist pursued new ways of presenting classical music on stage in a contemporary way. Together with Steven Ehrenberg, the projection and video designer William Cusick and the lighting designer Marc Janowitz, she conceived and produced the multimedia project Solome's Envisage in 2012 , in which a classic concert program is accompanied by video sequences and a coordinated lighting concept. For the project, she founded her own production company. After a show in New York in summer 2012, she started her Envisage tour in Switzerland in December 2013 .

Her predilection for Japanese anime and video games led to her musical involvement in 2013 with the band Critical Hit , founded by composer Jason Hayes, who has also worked for World of Warcraft and StarCraft . With the band and on YouTube have become known violinist Taylor Davis Salome Scheidegger toured the United States and Europe. She arranged pieces for a solo piano for video games and anime covers and released them on her solo album Play in 2015 .

In 2016 she devoted herself to piano arrangements of film soundtracks , a. a. by Spirited Away , Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro , which she released on the album Salicha in December 2016 . Inspired by working with the anime, Salome Scheidegger conceived the audiovisual performance project Salome & Salichan around the pink-haired anime character Salichan. Since then, pink hair has been the pianist's trademark. In 2017 the performance took place in New York.

Salome Scheidegger has been listed as a signature artist at the online sheet music retailer Musicnotes.com since autumn 2018 . She has her own YouTube channel, Salome Piano , on which she regularly publishes new arrangements.

Publications (selection)

  • Salichan: The Ghibli Album, 2016
  • Play: A Video Game and Anime Album, 2015
  • Salome's Envisage, 2013
  • Storytelling Live , 2006
  • Tender, 2006
  • Anthology, 2004
  • Dark Little Rooms (EP), 2006

Prices (selection)

  • Concorsi Internazionali di Musica Città di Stresa , 3rd Prize (1998)
  • Concours Musical de France, 1st Prize, (2001)
  • Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey International Piano Competition, 2nd Prize (2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New York is your springboard for a great career . In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . October 10, 2012, p. 42 .
  2. ↑ a b c Salome Scheidegger . In: Seasonal Sounds . tape February 21 , 2006. Zurich, p. 15 .
  3. ↑ a b Switzerland - Salome Scheidegger: A life for music. November 8, 2013, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Vita Salome Scheidegger. Retrieved March 3, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ Salome Scheidegger. Institute for Visual Thinking, accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  6. ^ Salome Scheidegger: Performances. Retrieved March 3, 2020 (American English).
  7. ^ Salome Scheidegger. Retrieved on March 3, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Music - With Chopin in the forest: Illustrated music by Salome Scheidegger. December 21, 2013, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  9. ^ Salome Scheidegger - Piano. In: Critical Hit. Retrieved March 3, 2020 (American English).
  10. ↑ Salome & Salichan: "Always with Me" - A Unique Piano Concert. In: Swiss Society. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  11. ^ Salome Scheidegger Sheet Music Downloads at Musicnotes.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  12. ^ Salome Piano. Retrieved on March 3, 2020 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Scheidegger, Salome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pianist, composer, music producer and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto