David Philip Hefti
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David Philip Hefti winner of the prestigious Gustav Mahler
Competition and of the George Enescu
Competition, studied at the Conservatories of Winterthur, Zurich and Carlsruhe, taking composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music. His mentors included Wolfgang Rihm
, Cristóbal Halffter
, Wolfgang Meyer, Rudolf Kelterborn and Elmar Schmid. He has appeared at the festivals 'Musica de Hoy' in Madrid, Pablo Casals
in Prades, EuroArt in Prague, 'Beijing Modern', 'music today 21' in Tokyo and as the 'artist in residence' at the International Music Biennale in São Paulo. He has worked with soloists such as Fabio Di Càsola, Thomas Grossenbacher, Thomas Indermühle, Wolfgang Meyer, Sylvia Nopper, Primoz Novsak, Oliver Schnyder, Stefan Tönz and with conductors such as David Zinman
, Ralf Weikert, Jac van Steen
, Michael Sanderling
, Krzysztof Penderecki
, Cristóbal Halffter
, Howard Griffiths
ant Peter Eötvös
. Hefti's work has brought him together with orchestras such as the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Calliopée in Paris and the Collegium Novum Zürich.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
Competition and of the George Enescu
George Enescu
George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
Competition, studied at the Conservatories of Winterthur, Zurich and Carlsruhe, taking composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music. His mentors included Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...
, Cristóbal Halffter
Cristóbal Halffter
Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina is a Spanish composer. He is the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter.-Life:...
, Wolfgang Meyer, Rudolf Kelterborn and Elmar Schmid. He has appeared at the festivals 'Musica de Hoy' in Madrid, Pablo Casals
Pablo Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló , known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time...
in Prades, EuroArt in Prague, 'Beijing Modern', 'music today 21' in Tokyo and as the 'artist in residence' at the International Music Biennale in São Paulo. He has worked with soloists such as Fabio Di Càsola, Thomas Grossenbacher, Thomas Indermühle, Wolfgang Meyer, Sylvia Nopper, Primoz Novsak, Oliver Schnyder, Stefan Tönz and with conductors such as David Zinman
David Zinman
David Zinman is an American conductor and violinist.After early violin studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at Tanglewood...
, Ralf Weikert, Jac van Steen
Jac van Steen
Jac van Steen is a Dutch conductor. He studied music theory, as well as orchestral and choral conducting, at the Brabants Conservatory of Music....
, Michael Sanderling
Michael Sanderling
Michael Sanderling is a German violoncellist and conductor.- Biography :Michael Sanderling, son of the contrabassist Barbara Sanderling and the conductor Kurt Sanderling, got his first cello lessons at the age of five in Berlin. At the age of eleven, he became student of Matthias Pfaender at the...
, Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...
, Cristóbal Halffter
Cristóbal Halffter
Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina is a Spanish composer. He is the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter.-Life:...
, Howard Griffiths
Howard Griffiths (conductor)
Howard Griffiths is a British conductor. He studied music at the Royal College of Music, London.He has lived in Switzerland since 1981. From 1996 to 2006, he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra . Griffiths is a champion of music by contemporary Turkish and...
ant Peter Eötvös
Peter Eötvös
Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...
. Hefti's work has brought him together with orchestras such as the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Calliopée in Paris and the Collegium Novum Zürich.