Over to Lausanne, Switzerland for a concert featuring the Sine Nomine Quartet with pianist Edith Fischer and contrabassist Noëlle Reymond in music of Schubert and Schumann.
It was recorded at Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz during their piano festival there on August 15, 2009 and broadcast live by RTS in Lausanne.
Featured are two works: Schubert Piano Quintet “Trout” D. 667 and Schumann’s Quintet op. 44.
Since its successes at the Evian competition in 1985 and at the Borciani competition in Reggio Emilia in 1987, the Quatuor Sine Nomine, based in Lausanne (Switzerland), has had an international career that has taken it to the main cities of Europe and America, notably to London (Wigmore Hall), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), New York (Carnegie Hall), and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Among the personalities who have left their mark on the four musicians, we must mention Rose Dumur Hemmerling, who shared her passion with them and made them aware of the great tradition of the string quartet, the Melos Quartet, and Henri Dutilleux, whose meeting during the recording of his work Ainsi la Nuit chez Erato was particularly enriching.
Noëlle Reymond grew up and studied in Lausanne. Her double bass teachers were Francis Marcellin, Franco Pettracchi (Geneva Conservatoire), Joël Quarrington (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto) and Yoan Goilav (Lausanne Conservatoire). After graduating with a Virtuosity Diploma with Honours, she worked as a substitute with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the OSR, the OSB and the OCG. The double bass is an ideal instrument for exploring the incredible diversity of musical worlds. Noëlle has seized every opportunity presented to her: orchestras, chamber music, popular music, baroque, tango, experimental, contemporary. She is currently a member of the baBel ensemble, the Contrechamps ensemble and the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain de la Chaux-de-Fonds. She teaches double bass at the Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, and orchestra in class at three primary schools in Lausanne. Since 2008, some thirty classes have been introduced to string instruments in orchestras at the rate of two periods per week for two years in 5P and 6P.
Edith Fischer was born in Santiago de Chile into a family of renowned musicians, she gave her first recital at the age of eleven, shortly before performing Mozart’s Concerto KV453 in G major under the baton of the great conductor Hermann Scherchen.
Thanks to these early successes and the enthusiastic recommendations of musicians like Ormandy, Busch and Kleiber, Edith Fischer was awarded a scholarship from the United States which will allow her to continue her studies with her compatriot Claudio Arrau. She becomes one of the few students recognized by the Grand Master in the book “Conversations with Arrau”.
Established in Switzerland, Edith Fischer won the Dinu Lipatti prize in London and the first prize at the Munich International Competition. She has performed in most of the musical capitals of Europe, North and South America, Japan, India and the Middle East.
Its repertoire is very rich, including the complete sonatas of Beethoven, the complete works of Ravel, as well as most of the chamber music literature.
Edith Fischer makes it her duty to pass on the important pianistic heritage received from her master Claudio Arrau and devotes part of her professional life to teaching. In Switzerland she was one of the founders of the Cercle Lémanique d’Etudes Musicales and contributed to the training of many pianists and teachers.
Based in Chile since 2007, Edith Fischer currently performs in concerts around the world and participates in numerous master classes.
In 2022, she was awarded the National Music Prize “President of the Republic 2022” in Chile, as well as the Critics’ Prize for her performance in the piano recital at the Universidad Federico Santa María de Valparaíso and for her participation as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile.
There you have it – now on to the concert.
