Rachel Kolly d'Alba
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Rachel Kolly d'Alba is a Swiss solo
ist violin
ist. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 5.
ist Rachel Kolly d'Alba, born 1981 in Lausanne
(Switzerland), received her first violin and piano lesson at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatory in Lausanne where she received, with 15 years old, the diploma for teaching, for the violin and for the chamber music. She went on with her studies at the University for Music and Drama in Berne in the class of the renowned Slovenian violinist and teacher Igor Ozim. In addition to her violin studies, she studied orchestration
with Jean Balissat
, composition
with Michael Jarrell
in Geneva and contemporary chamber music with Bruno Canino
.
She took also master classes with Maestro Franco Gulli (Bloomington), with Thomas Kakuska
(Alban Berg Quartet
), with Thomas Brandis
, Hansheinz Schneeberger
and Ivry Gitlis
.
, the OSUL Lausanne, the Berne Chamber Orchestra, the Jenaer Philharmonie
, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
, the national symphony Orchestra of Lituenia, the Bienne Chamber Orchestra, The Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse, the Orchester Gesellschaft Zürich, the Sinfonietta Lausanne
, the Arcademia Symphonica Germany, the Biel symphonic Orchestra, the New Europa Orchestra or the Orchestre de chambre Fribourgeois and has worked with conductors such as Dmitri Kitayenko, Laurent Gendre, Pascal Rophé, Kaspar Zehnder
, Jonathan Harrisson, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
, Urs Peter Schneider, Zolt Nagy, Hervé Klopfenstein or Marc Kissoczy among others.
Considered as one of the most talentend Swiss violinist, she is invited to play at numerous renowned festivals such as Menuhin Festival Gstaad
, Festival de Divonne, or Internazionale Festival di Musica in Este, Contemporary Music Festival Yerevan, Festival « Schleswig Holstein », Festival de Poitiers, « Encuentros » and « Mozarteum » at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Chilean Sigall, International festival of Flanders or Murten classics.
Rachel Kolly d'Alba plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari
on loan from a French collector. She is artistic director of her own chamber music serie in Montreux
, Switzerland: the Riviera Concerts.
Rachel Kolly d'Alba has premiered many new works by such composers as Tristan Murail
, Eric Gaudibert, Frederic Perreten, Valentin Villard, Fréderic Danel, Marco Attila, Katrin Frauchiger, Jonas Kocher, Brice Catherin
among others.
In 2010, her CD "Passion Ysaÿe" presenting the 6 violin Sonatas by composer Eugène Ysaÿe was released on the Major WARNER CLASSICS and received unanimous praise in the international press. Ms. Kolly d'Alba became the first Swiss musician to record for the Warner Music Group. Her next CD, as soloist with conductors Jean-Jacques Kantorow and John Axelrod
, is entitled, "French Impressions," featuring music for violin and orchestra by Saint-Saens, Chausson
, Ravel and Ysaÿe, is released on the same label in October, 2011.
, Switzerland and has a daughter. Her interests include writing, literature and travel.
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
ist violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 5.
Early life
The Swiss soloSolo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
ist Rachel Kolly d'Alba, born 1981 in Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
(Switzerland), received her first violin and piano lesson at the age of five. She studied at the Conservatory in Lausanne where she received, with 15 years old, the diploma for teaching, for the violin and for the chamber music. She went on with her studies at the University for Music and Drama in Berne in the class of the renowned Slovenian violinist and teacher Igor Ozim. In addition to her violin studies, she studied orchestration
Orchestration
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...
with Jean Balissat
Jean Balissat
Jean Balissat was a composer, a professor of music and head of Swiss orchestra.-Biography:Jean Balissat was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied counterpoint and harmony with Hans Haug in Lausanne. In 1954, he moved to Geneva, where he studied the orchestration of Andre-Francois Marescotti...
, composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
with Michael Jarrell
Michael Jarrell
Michael Jarrell is a Swiss composer. Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.His works span many genres...
in Geneva and contemporary chamber music with Bruno Canino
Bruno Canino
Bruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...
.
She took also master classes with Maestro Franco Gulli (Bloomington), with Thomas Kakuska
Thomas Kakuska
Thomas Kakuska was an Austrian viola player, best known as the violist of the Alban Berg Quartett from 1981 until his death in Vienna in 2005....
(Alban Berg Quartet
Alban Berg Quartet
The Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet founded in Vienna, Austria in 1970, named after the famous composer Alban Berg.-Members:- Beginnings :...
), with Thomas Brandis
Thomas Brandis
Thomas Brandis, is a German violinist, chamber music performer, pedagogue and former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.-Biography:Born in Hamburg in 1935, Brandis trained as a violinist in Hamburg and later in London with Max Rostal...
, Hansheinz Schneeberger
Hansheinz Schneeberger
Hansheinz Schneeberger is a Swiss violinist.Born in Bern, he studied under Walter Kägi at the conservatory in Bern, as well as Carl Flesch and Boris Kamensky.He formed a string quartet and gave concerts with it and as a soloist...
and Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis
Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras , and many of his recordings are considered classics.-Life:Born in Haifa, Mandate Palestine to Jewish immigrants from Russia,...
.
Career
Since her debut as a soloist at the age of twelve, Kolly d'Alba has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Berner Symphonie-OrchesterBerner Symphonie-Orchester
The Berner Symphonie-Orchester is one of Switzerland's major orchestras and consists of about 100 musicians. It was founded in 1877 in the capital Bern....
, the OSUL Lausanne, the Berne Chamber Orchestra, the Jenaer Philharmonie
Jenaer Philharmonie
The Jenaer Philharmonie is a symphony orchestra based in Jena, Germany. It was founded in 1934 with the intent to revive and continue the old traditions of the "Collegium musicum Jenense" and the academic concerts by the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena...
, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
The Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana is a Swiss orchestra based in Lugano. The orchestra's primary concert venue is the Auditorio RSI....
, the national symphony Orchestra of Lituenia, the Bienne Chamber Orchestra, The Orchestre de chambre de Toulouse, the Orchester Gesellschaft Zürich, the Sinfonietta Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, the Arcademia Symphonica Germany, the Biel symphonic Orchestra, the New Europa Orchestra or the Orchestre de chambre Fribourgeois and has worked with conductors such as Dmitri Kitayenko, Laurent Gendre, Pascal Rophé, Kaspar Zehnder
Kaspar Zehnder
Kaspar Zehnder is a Swiss conductor and flutist. He studied classical languages at the Lyceum in Bern and music at the Bern Academy of Arts. His music teachers included Heidi Indermühle , Ewald Körner , Agathe Rytz-Jaggi and Peter Streiff and Arthur Furer...
, Jonathan Harrisson, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Jean-Jacques Kantorow is a French violin virtuoso and conductor.-Biography:Kantorow was born in Cannes, France. From the age of 13 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with René Benedetti, and in 1960 won the first violin prize...
, Urs Peter Schneider, Zolt Nagy, Hervé Klopfenstein or Marc Kissoczy among others.
Considered as one of the most talentend Swiss violinist, she is invited to play at numerous renowned festivals such as Menuhin Festival Gstaad
Gstaad
Gstaad is a village in the German-speaking section of the Canton of Berne in southwestern Switzerland. Part of the municipality of Saanen, Gstaad is known as one of the most exclusive ski resorts in the world....
, Festival de Divonne, or Internazionale Festival di Musica in Este, Contemporary Music Festival Yerevan, Festival « Schleswig Holstein », Festival de Poitiers, « Encuentros » and « Mozarteum » at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Chilean Sigall, International festival of Flanders or Murten classics.
Rachel Kolly d'Alba plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is...
on loan from a French collector. She is artistic director of her own chamber music serie in Montreux
Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...
, Switzerland: the Riviera Concerts.
Rachel Kolly d'Alba has premiered many new works by such composers as Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
, Eric Gaudibert, Frederic Perreten, Valentin Villard, Fréderic Danel, Marco Attila, Katrin Frauchiger, Jonas Kocher, Brice Catherin
Brice Catherin
Brice Catherin is a French composer and cellist, mostly active in Switzerland.- Studies and first professional steps :...
among others.
In 2010, her CD "Passion Ysaÿe" presenting the 6 violin Sonatas by composer Eugène Ysaÿe was released on the Major WARNER CLASSICS and received unanimous praise in the international press. Ms. Kolly d'Alba became the first Swiss musician to record for the Warner Music Group. Her next CD, as soloist with conductors Jean-Jacques Kantorow and John Axelrod
John Axelrod
John Neal Axelrod is an American conductor. Axelrod is currently Conductor and Music Director of l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, based in Nantes and Angers, France; and, from the 2011/12 season the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica "Giuseppe Verdi" also known as "laVerdi"...
, is entitled, "French Impressions," featuring music for violin and orchestra by Saint-Saens, Chausson
Chausson
Chausson can refer to:*Chausson , a French manufacturer of recreational vehicles*Chausson , a French martial art*Ernest Chausson, a French composer*Anne-Caroline Chausson, a French BMX and mountain bike racer...
, Ravel and Ysaÿe, is released on the same label in October, 2011.
Personal life
Rachel Kolly d'Alba currently lives in MontreuxMontreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...
, Switzerland and has a daughter. Her interests include writing, literature and travel.
Discography
- 2005 - Contemporary music from Switzerland and Armenia for violin and Ensemble. (Vassena violin concerto, Gaudibert, Frauchiger...)
- 2006 - French Recital for violin-piano (Debussy, FauréFaureFaure or Fauré is a French family name and may refer to:People:* Edgar Faure, French politician* Élie Faure, French art historian and essayist* Émile Alphonse Faure, lead battery pioneer* Cédric Fauré, French football striker...
, Ysaÿe, Lili BoulangerLili BoulangerLili Boulanger was a French composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.-Early years:A Parisian-born child prodigy, who was good at piano...
, Ravel) with Atena Carte, piano - 2007 - "Tournée Européenne" (Concerto for violin and Chor by Nystedt, "Ave Maria") with the "Choeur des XVI".
- 2010 -"Passion Ysaÿe" : 6 solo sonatas by Eugène YsaÿeEugène YsaÿeEugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...
(released 2010 on Warner Classics) - 2011 -"French Impressions" : works for violin and Orchestra by Ravel, Saint-Saëns, ChaussonChaussonChausson can refer to:*Chausson , a French manufacturer of recreational vehicles*Chausson , a French martial art*Ernest Chausson, a French composer*Anne-Caroline Chausson, a French BMX and mountain bike racer...
, Eugène YsaÿeEugène YsaÿeEugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...
(released 2011 on Warner Classics)