Tobias Willi (organist)

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Tobias Willi (born November 7, 1976 in Brugg ) is a Swiss organist and professor at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) .

Life

Tobias Willi studied from 1997 to 2003 at the Hochschule für Musik Basel , majoring in organ with Guy Bovet (teaching and soloist diploma with distinction) and piano with Heinz Börlin and Jürg Wyttenbach (teaching diploma with distinction). From autumn 2003 to summer 2005 he completed postgraduate studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in the organ class of Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard . In this context there was an intensive examination of French organ music from the Renaissance to the modern age.

From January 2007 to November 2014 Willi was the main organist of the reformed parish of Pfäffikon . Since January 2015 he has been the main organist of the Johanneskirche Zurich .

As a professor of artistic organ playing and improvisation, Willi has been teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since spring semester 2010.

Willi also gives concerts regularly in Switzerland and throughout Europe (including at the Lucerne Festival 2004, the Feldkirch Festival 2009, in Notre-Dame de Paris , in the Fulda Cathedral , in the Freiburg Minster , in the Mariinski Theater in St. Petersburg and in the cathedrals from Bourges and Monaco ). He is not only active as a soloist, but also in various duo formations - for example together with the Swiss saxophonist Lars Mlekusch .

Tobias Willi's repertoire includes organ music from its beginnings to the present. The music of the 19th to the 21st century is a focus of his work. Numerous world premieres (by Jean-Pierre Leguay , Mattias Steinauer, Junghae Lee and others) testify to this . In 2014 and 2015 he also performed the complete works for organ by Olivier Messiaen in six concerts. In addition, Willi realized various interdisciplinary projects, such as the improvised accompaniment of silent films on the organ.

Publications (selection)

Sound carrier

  • Aargau organ music in the 20th century. MGB, Zurich 2006.
  • Man, become essential. Spiritual works by Adolf Brunner . Spectral, Regensburg 2016.

Essays

  • Olivier Messiaen - a liturgical composer? In: Musik & Gottesdienst, Volume 62, No. 5 / September 2008.
  • Autour de Jehan Alain - an approximation. In: Musik & Gottesdienst, 65th year, No. 6 / November 2011.
  • André Fleury (1903-1995). In: Musik & Gottesdienst, 68th year, No. 5 / September 2014.
  • Much admired, little known - on the organ works of Charles Tournemire. In: Musik & Gottesdienst, Volume 70, No. 6 / November 2016.
  • 50 years of the Cours international d'Orgue de Romainmôtier. In: Musik & Gottesdienst, Volume 72, No. 4 / July 2018.
  • Souvenir et avenir - French organ music from the last 30 years. In: Musik & Gottesdienst, Volume 72, No. 6 / November 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Schacher: French Modernism | NZZ. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Tobias Willi's website. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts: Prof. Tobias Willi | ZHdK.ch. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Lucerne Festival: Tobias Willi. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Willi, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss organist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Brugg