Simone Zgraggen
Simone Zgraggen (born August 8, 1975 in Altdorf ) is a Swiss violinist.
Life
Simone Zgraggen started playing the violin at the age of five. From 1991 to 1994 she studied at the Lucerne Conservatory with Alexander van Wijnkoop (degree: teaching diploma with distinction), from 1994 to 1995 at the Basel Music Academy also with van Wijnkoop (degree: concert readiness diploma with distinction) and from 1996 to 2002 at the university for music in Karlsruhe with Ulf Hoelscher (degrees: concert exam with distinction; artistic postgraduate studies with distinction).
Since 1998 she has shared the honorary chairmanship of the MythenForum Schwyz with Vladimir Fedossejew .
From 2001 to 2004 she had a teaching position for string methodology at the Karlsruhe University of Music . From 2001 to 2012 she taught violin at the Zurich Conservatory of Classical and Jazz. In 2012 she was appointed professor for violin at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg .
She has been working as an expert at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences since 2005 and as a juror for the Swiss Youth Music Competition Foundation since 2007.
Since 2010 she has been concert master of the Basel Sinfonietta .
instrument
Simone Zgraggen plays the Stradivarius violin "Golden Bell" from 1668.
She uses bows by Louis Henri Gillet, Alfred Lamy, Claude Thomassin and a baroque bow by Carsten G. Löschmann.
Prices
Simone Zgraggen has won the following prizes:
- Heinrich Danioth Art and Culture Foundation : Main Award (2006)
- University competition of the music academies in the Federal Republic of Germany: 1st prize (2002)
- Carl Flesch Academy Baden-Baden: Brahms Prize and Lions Prize (2001)
- Meadowmount School of Music: Shar Award (1999)
Discography
Simone Zgraggen made the following recordings:
- Claves Records (Claves 50-2503)
- Othmar Schoeck : The 3 Violin Sonatas ( With Ulrich Koella )
- Genuin classics (GEN 86521) review
- Luigi Boccherini : String Quintet in E Major, Op. 13 No. 5 ( with Schubert quintet )
- Franz Schubert : String Quintet in C Major, D 956 - Op. post. 163 ( with Schubert quintet )
- Bella Musica (BM 31.2345)
- Johannes Brahms : Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra in A minor op.102 ( With Grigori Alumyan and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic under Werner Stiefel )
- Johann Sebastian Bach : Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004
Web links
Simone Zgraggen on the homepage of the Freiburg University of Music
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zgraggen, Simone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdorf |