Magda Schwerzmann

Interests: music, flute, chamber music, contemporary music

Prof. Magda Schwerzmann is a lecturer at the Bern University of Music (HKB), Kalaidos University, the Winterthur Conservatory and the St.Gallen Music School, and teaches transverse flute, transverse flute, subject didactics and chamber music. She studied with Peter-Lukas Graf, Philippe Racine and Aurèle Nicolet and graduated with a concert and soloist diploma.

Her special interest in new music enabled her to collaborate with important composers of our time (including Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, George Crumb, Dieter Ammann, Thomas Demenga, Rudolf Kelterborn, Y. Uebayashy). She made premieres, radio and television recordings of a wide variety of works. Her solo CD QUERBBLICK was released by Occam. In 2010, Neuklang released her new CD with all of Daniel Schnyder's flute works: Manhattanite.
In addition, Magda Schwerzmann studied early music with a major in flauto traverso at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Oskar Peter and graduated with a diploma in early music. The encounter with Barthold Kuijtken gave her important impulses. She is solo flutist in the early music orchestra Collegium Musicum Lucerne. And plays in various other orchestras for early music, such as Allegria Musicale, Ensemble Corund, Orchestra Classica, Consortium Zurich etc. She won the 2000 Nicati Competition of the Swiss Tonkunstlerverein (competition for new, contemporary music). She has been awarded several times by the Orpheum Foundation for the promotion of young artists and the Zug Artists Prize and the Migros Culture Percentage Prize.

As an interpreter, Magda Schwerzmann bridges the gap between the past and the present. Her artistic work ranges from early Baroque performance practice, to later chamber music and orchestral concerts, to musical theater performances, improvisational performances and live electronic productions. She regularly gives concerts in the States and has been invited several times to the National Flute Convention (USA), the Florida Flute Convention and the Festival del Flauto in Quito (Equador). In addition to solo appearances (including with the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Quito Symphony Orchestra), she appears as a chamber musician in various ensembles in the fields of both old and new music. From 1999 to 2002 she played in the Ensemble Contrechamps Geneva.

„Transverse view“, crosswise through the flute history

Loved and despised: according to the whims of fashion and composers’ preference, the flute’s fate vacillated between popularity and loneliness.

“Transverse view” is a solo program played on nine different transverse flutes. From 1700 to the present, the history of the flute is demonstrated on the corresponding instruments: baroque one-keyed flute, classical four-keyed flute, early romantic multi-keyed flute, late romantic wooden ring-key Boehm flute, modern silver flute, piccolo, alto flute, and base flute.

This program offers:

•    an acoustic overview of the development of the transverse flute, its construction, material, tuning, and character;
•    an insight into the characteristic solo flute compositions written in each phase of its development; and
•    a perspective on the entire transverse flute family.

Listen more from the Author: https://www.magda-schwerzmann.ch/hoerbeispiele

Images, video and texts credit: www.magda-schwerzmann.ch/

Gallery

In this gallery you can see a selection of my work on SWS Vienna Scientific Conference in HOFBURG. I hope you enjoy.

Magda Schwerzmann Performance on SWS Vienna Scientific Conference

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