Tag: Switzerland

Jany Renz

Jany Renz

During his international career as Lied accompanist and chamber musician he was partner of leading Lied singers and leading instrumentalists. He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher in Basel. Master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache completed his studies. He was chief conductor of the symphony orchestra Dornach/Switzerland. His career began in Italy where he became first maestro and artistic vice director. Later he spent a long time in South Korea as director Read more [...]
Beat Richner

Beat Richner

Beat Richner (13 March 1947 – 9 September 2018) was a Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia. He created the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Zurich in 1992 and became its head. Along with another expatriate, he oversaw and ran the predominantly Cambodian-manned hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Richner was known by patients, audiences, and donors as clown "Beatocello", connecting his play with humour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYLGRXtHa8 Film Read more [...]
Wolfgang Ellenberger

Wolfgang Ellenberger

piano = Handgepäck | hand luggage Wolfgang Ellenberger, the author of this web site has studied also piano diploma and concert exam besides music therapy.1987-1989 he worked at the ballet of the Scala of Milano as pianist.1994 debut as conductor with the Sibirian State orchestra Kemerovo. In the nineties he conducted three choirs and in the opera project Magic Flute.He has lived three years of his life in a camper on camping sites.He invented several things: piano-lift-hydraulics, piano fingering Read more [...]
Frédéric Fasel

Frédéric Fasel

Frédéric Fasel is a pianist from the French part of Switzerland who performs his own compositions, see the CD and samples on his web site. He practises as psychiatrist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BElUGy9QehE web wikipedia youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology."[1][2] His botanic abbreviation is "Haller", also used as "Hall." AS author his monumental work is Die Alpen. In "Die Alpen" are notes pointing out some plants of his Read more [...]
Markus Käser

Markus Käser

The small farm named "Sädel" in Sumiswald/Switzerland would not be profitable any more nowadays. But farmer Markus Käser has taken a second profession: He studied medicine and opened his GP office in his home village. Nevertheless he alwayse helped out in his parents' farm. After 33 years he passed the doctors office to his son who is an excellent photographer. Read more [...]
Kamila Dudova

Kamila Dudova

Kamila Dudova was born in the Czech Republic and has grown up there. From age 17 she has been singing, studied at the music academy of Cologne and has participated in numerous master-classes as with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Grace Bumbry. Besides she studied medicine in Bonn and is now practising as psychotherapist in the Swiss cantone Zug. She has won several prizes. Performances in Münster Bern, French Church Bern, COlogne Dome, Münster Bonn, Gasteig Centre Munich, Prague Dome, Read more [...]