Category : accordionDocs , FlyingDocs , IngineerDocs , PianoDocs
1.September 1918 – 4. January 2015
Günther Sandfuchs does not only play accordion (in Swiss German: Handorgel = hand organ) but also piano and a harmonium. Originally he studied machine building ingineer and was fascinated by flying. So he began gliding and later was flying transport planes. Music kept him young and he played until his high age of 97.
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Christian Wenk grew up in Greifensee/CH and studie the piano a lot after his Matura (High School Degree). He was Swiss champion with Duathlon and even World Champion shortly before he had a severe accident with a high paraplegia. Nevertheless he faced his 2second life” actively, got his medical degree in 2002 working as MD ever since, having his own office since 2014 in Schenkon/CH.
He still makes a lot of sports with handbike, was trainer of the Swiss national team.
And he plays piano, performing Beetoven´s 3rd piano concerto in 2003, Grieg piano concerto in 2006 and Geshwin´s Rhapsody in Blue in 2010 as examples for more.
In 2013 he founded the Christian Wenk foundation and sponsors projects as schoole in Afghanistan and Myanmar.
After difficult years 2017 thru 2020 with 41 operations and amputation of his legs he enjoys his 3rd life as a great encore. His message despite of paraplegia an without legs: ” I am locking of nothing!” He wants to encourage people with handicaps and inspire them to embrace fate and take use of what is available.
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Category : PianoDocs
Nicolas Gerber performed with the star violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja for beneficial purpose.
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Category : conductorDocs , FluteDocs , OrganDocs
During his international career as Lied accompanist and chamber musician he was partner of leading Lied singers and leading instrumentalists.
He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher in Basel. Master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache completed his studies.
He was chief conductor of the symphony orchestra Dornach/Switzerland. His career began in Italy where he became first maestro and artistic vice director. Later he spent a long time in South Korea as director of the Masan Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In Finland he got in touch with the contemporary music scene and took up several works in his repertoire. He conducted “Aida” on the Opera Festival of Savonlinna and gave master classes of Lied and chamber music. He regularly worked with finnish orchestras. He also was guest conductor of the Budapest philhamronic orchestra and of the Opera Budapest.
In 1991 a recording of the 9th symphony of Bruckner was published with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra (ODE 764-2 www.ondine.fi ) which became the best sold version of this work in the USA in that year (and the best sold classical CD at all in August).
From 1990 to 1994 he was general music director in Freiberg/germany. As guest conductor he worked in other theaters, like in Darmstadt with “Falstaff” of Giuseppe Verdi. The success of his CD produced him invitations in the USA as in Portland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York.
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Jany Renz heißt der Dirigent, der das Kunststück fertiggebracht hat, das Orchester zu einer so mitreissenden Leistung zu führen. Es gelang ihm eine packende Wiedergabe von Dvoráks Symphonie “Aus der Neuen Welt”, emphatisch, spontan, vital und dennoch präzise, beherrscht und kontrolliert, von hohem Ernst und starkem interpretatorischem Willen.
(Basler Zeitung, Switzerland)
In Mozart´s last piano concerto KV 595, Jany Renz figured not only as soloist but also as conductor. In this he performed a double task which has sometimes proved too exacting for many othe rinternational celebrities. But with the swiss Jany Renz it was a sheer joy to hear and see. His sovereign virtuosity and natural zest in playing did not stand in the way of a Mozart performance marked by the lucidity and delicacy of chamber music and crowned by a slow movement that was touchingly beautiful in its humility and unworldliness.
(Portland Press Herald, USA)
With a clear and quite unassuming baton, and with a punctilious constancy of tempo, Jany Renz gave a performance of convincing unity, lending an abundance of sound and dynamics to the strictly maintained great lines while shaping them with a lot of fince nuances, in which the orchestra followed him with astonishing precision and remarkable culture of sound.
(The New York Times, USA)
Jany Renz´s creative impulse, which found compelling expression in the extreme prescicion of baton technique, afforded him ideal scope with the orchestra and Anton Bruckner´s “Seventh” received an overpowering performance.
(Pittsburgh Press, USA)
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Category : ClownDocs , VioloncelloDocs
Beat Richner (13 March 1947 – 9 September 2018) was a Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children’s hospitals in Cambodia. He created the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Zurich in 1992 and became its head. Along with another expatriate, he oversaw and ran the predominantly Cambodian-manned hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Richner was known by patients, audiences, and donors as clown “Beatocello”, connecting his play with humour.
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Wolfgang Ellenberger, the author of this web site has studied also piano diploma and concert exam besides music therapy.
1987-1989 he worked at the ballet of the Scala of Milano as pianist.
1994 debut as conductor with the Sibirian State orchestra Kemerovo. In the nineties he conducted three choirs and in the opera project Magic Flute.
He has lived three years of his life in a camper on camping sites.
He invented several things: piano-lift-hydraulics, piano fingering system and he introduced cinema therapy to a psychosomatic hospital.
Since 1982 he manages an event service (see clients list).
In his youth he played a pneumatic organ in a church in Hamburg Altona for 12 years.
Since his workshop with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross he studied spirituality intensively and finally wrote a film script about the communication with the spiritual world according to the book of Johannes Greber.
He produced many hundreds of films for his youtube account and other places.
In 2011 he moved to Switzerland (with two interruptions in Germany) where he likes to hike in the mountains.
Ellenberger worked as a waiter fully employed @ maritim hotel Würzburg for some months.
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Category : ComposerDocs , PianoDocs
Frédéric Fasel is a pianist from the French part of Switzerland who performs his own compositions, see the CD and samples on his web site. He practises as psychiatrist.
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Category : OrchestraDocs
In 1968 the orchestra was founded by a group of medical students. Now it has about 50 members.
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SMOMS is a Doctors Orchestra with participants from all over Switzerland.
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Category : AstronomicDocs , BanknoteDocs , BotanicDocs , GeographyDocs , StampDocs , WriterDocs
Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as “the father of modern physiology.”[1][2]
His botanic abbreviation is “Haller”, also used as “Hall.”
AS author his monumental work is Die Alpen.
In “Die Alpen” are notes pointing out some plants of his main botanic work Enumeratio methodica stirpium Helvetiae indigenarum:
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