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Salome
Scheidegger Pianistin Salome was only eleven when she won 3.
place in the renowned Concorsi
Internazionali di Musica "Cittą di Stresa", Italy, where she stood out with her extraordinary sparkling,
effervescent touch. Two years later her brilliant playing took the judges in
France and Italy by storm, and she was awarded three first prizes. In 2001,
at the age of only fourteen, she was awarded the 1. prize of the great Concours Musical de France. Salome was the 2. prize winner of the 7. Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey International Piano Competition in Bathurst, Canada. Salome was born in 1987 in Japan to
Swiss parents and now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Her passion for music
emerged already in her early childhood. At the age of three she began
studying classical Japanese dance with the famous master Hanayagi Wasen. At the age of four she enchanted the audience at her first public
performance in the Municipal Theater
of Kobe, Japan. When she was five years old, Salome began studying piano in Lugano,
Switzerland. From 1993 on she studied with the internationally renowned
concert pianist Patricia Pagny in Strasbourg, France. Today she is intensively accompanied by the
Bulgarian pianist, composer, piano improviser and pedagogue Galina Vracheva. She has attended master courses, among them those conducted by Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and Paul Badura-Skoda in Italy. At the opening of the Zurich Chamber
Orchestra's new concert hall, Salome, then fifteen, performed Haydn's piano
concerto in D-major with the Zurich
Chamber Orchestra conducted by Howard Griffiths. In January 2004 she debuted in the Tonhalle Zurich with the first
piano concerto in g minor op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn with the Zurich Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Schweizer. In February 2004, her first CD record was released. Further
recordings were made by the Swiss radio DRS2. She is now in preparation of
her second CD with works of Schubert, Grieg, Schumann and Chopin. Salome's
piano works were broadcasted by radio DRS2, Bayern Klassik 4 and Energy Zurich. In July 2005 Salome was invited at the 20. Davos Festival "young artists in concert" in Switzerland. In Japan, she debuted in August 2005 with a recital
at Nakanoshima Chuo Kaikodo, and opened the Mozart year 2006 with the Kansai Philharmonic conducted by Taijiro Imori at the Izumi Hall. For Youth &
Classic Salome took part in a program featuring
her classical music recital and a Rock music performance by the Swiss band elfish. Salome receives scholarships from the LYRA Foundation for highly gifted young musicians as well as from the Fritz-Gerber-Foundation for gifted young people. She also received sponsorship by the
foundations Georg and Bertha
Schwyzer-Winiker and Ernst Goehner. HOME: www.salomes.com |
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Salome Scheidegger nach ihrem
Institutskonzert, 8. April 2006 |
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