The Swiss Global Artistic Foundation will be auditioning new artists from May to September 2010 in selected cities throughout the world. Please click on the underlined date above for complete audition details.
From these auditions we will invite musicians to be part of our Artists Roster. Artists will be selected on exceptional quality of performance, musicality and potential.
This is not a competition.
On Thursday, May 27 and Friday, May 28, the Playhouse Project, in association with Swiss Global, will host the 6th Annual Master Class at The Playhouse, located in the heart of East Hampton, New York. The classes, open to middle school and high school students on the South Fork of Long
John Pitcher reviews the phenomenal Omaha debut recital of Hahn-Bin, a Swiss Global young artist. Hahn-Bin, also a roster musician with Young Concert Artists, is a special protégé of the famed Itzhak Perlman.
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The famous young Swiss violinist Rachel Kolly d’Alba will be recording her next CD with St Jean, the first violin of The Evangelists. The Evangelists, a matching string quartet by J-B Vuillaume, was purchased by the Foundation two years ago. The recording, featuring music of Saint-Saëns and Ysaÿe, is Ms d’Alba’s second album. Swiss Global’s loan of St Jean to Ms d’Alba will continue through her ensuing concert tour, and end in late April.
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Denmark’s leading composer, Poul Ruders, has just completed his Piano Concerto No. 2, a 23-minute work in three movements. Composed for piano virtuoso and Foundation Young Artist Vassily Primakov, the composition was commissioned for Primakov by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, with whom Primakov will give the premiere performance in Oslo on 20 October 2010. The new work will be conducted by the orchestra’s Music Director, Thomas Sondergard.
The Foundation is pleased to welcome the Byron Quartet to its illustrious roster of young artists. The four instrumentalists of Quatuor Byron hail from different European countries and formed the ensemble in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Swiss Global Artistic Foundation announces the conclusion of its two-year loan to the Modigliani Quartet of The Evangelists—the world’s only played matched set of string quartet instruments by a master maker—and an international competition to choose the next chamber music ensemble to have the right of using them.
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La Swiss Global Artistic Foundation annonce le terme de son prêt de deux ans au Quatuor Modides —seul ensemble au monde à être actuellement joué, de quatre instruments à cordes parfaitement assortis façonnés par un maître luthier—et l’avènement d’un nouveau concours international aux fins de choisir le prochain ensemble de musique de chambre qui aura le droit de les utiliser.
The Swiss Global Artistic Foundation is honoured to announce that Robert Bovet has joined its Advisory Board.
Mr Bovet, a leading international investment advisor, who is chairman, or director of a number of major global financial institutions, after beginning his career in finance in several senior banking management posts, was educated in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States.
On behalf of Heather de Haes and the entire staff at Swiss Global, on this Valentine’s Day we wish you and yours another year of health, happiness, success and love.
