Simone Zgraggen Explained

Simone Zgraggen
Birth Date:1975 8, df=y
Birth Place:Altdorf, Switzerland
Instrument:Violin
Genre:Classical
Occupation:Violinist
Years Active:1988–present

Simone Zgraggen (born 8 August 1975 in Altdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss violinist and professor at Freiburg University of Music.

Career

Simone Zgraggen began playing the violin at the age of five. She studied from 1991 to 1994 at Lucerne University of Music under Alexander van Wijnkoop, from 1994 to 1995 at Basel Conservatory also under van Wijnkoop and from 1996 to 2002 at Karlsruhe University of Music under Ulf Hoelscher. She received all degrees with highest honors.

In 2012 she was appointed to a professorship for violin at Freiburg University of Music after having taught violin classes at Zurich Conservatory from 2001 to 2012 and violin methodology at Karlsruhe University of Music from 2001 to 2004.[1]

Simone Zgraggen is concertmaster of the Basel Sinfonietta[2] and the Zuger Sinfonietta.[3]

Instrument

Simone Zgraggen plays the Stradivarius violin Golden Bell of 1668.She uses bows made by Louis Henri Gillet, Alfred Lamy, Claude Thomassin and a baroque bow built by Carsten G. Löschmann.

Awards and recognition

Discography

Dieter Ammann

Unbalanced Instability (with Baldur Brönnimann und Basel Sinfonietta)

Othmar Schoeck

The 3 Violin Sonatas (with Ulrich Koella)

Luigi Boccherini

String Quintet in E major, Op. 13 No. 5 (with Schubert-Quintett)

Franz Schubert

String Quintet in C major, D 956 - Op. post. 163 (with Schubert-Quintett)

Johannes Brahms

Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra in A minor, Op. 102 (with Grigory Alumyan and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic under Werner Stiefel)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Partita in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.mh-freiburg.de/lehrende/person/details/zgraggen/ Official website of Freiburg University of Music
  2. http://www.baselsinfonietta.ch/orchester/musiker/ Official website of the Basel Sinfonietta
  3. https://zugersinfonietta.ch/orchester/musiker/ Official website of the Zuger Sinfonietta