| Biography
1966 Born in Venice/Italy to Polish-Swiss parents. Moved to Switzerland
following sojourns in Egypt, the USA and Berlin. Early discovery and
fostering of musical and artistic gifts. Began piano lessons at the age
of five and three-times prize-winner Swiss Young Musicians' Competition.
1992–2000 International concert career as soloist and chamber musician. Concert
activities among others at the Lucerne International Festival of Music,
the Wiener Festwochen, the Philharmony of Berlin, the Music Festival of
Baden-Baden and the Saint Petersburg White Nights Festival. 1993
premiere of Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto in the original
version, 1994 its first recording as a world premiere with the Moscow
Radio Symphony Orchestra under the conduction of Vladimir Fedosejev. 10
award-winning CD recordings, numerous international radio recordings
and television appearances.
Since 1991 Author and Editor. Regular projects with various
publishing houses and concert organizers as well as freelance
contributions as a columnist for different culture magazines.
Publication of music-philosophical essays (Benteli Verlag, Berne).
Well-known on the lecture circuit, used to be a frequent guest at
talk-shows broadcast by the Swiss Radio.
2000
Move to own studio in order to concentrate exclusively on painting.
Lives and works in Baden/Switzerland.
Education
Academy of Art, Zurich/Switzerland
University of Berne/Switzerland
University of Salzburg/Austria
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts “Mozarteum”, Salzburg/Austria
Academy of Music and Theatre, Berne/Switzerland
Awards
1998
Inaugural prize-winner, Armand von Ernst Banquiers Foundation, Berne/Switzerland
1997
European Culture Prize, Venice/Italy, under the patronate of the European Council and the European Parliament
1997
Swiss Musician of the Year, Geneva/Switzerland, under the patronate of OMEGA
1991
UBS Jubilee Foundation Award, Zurich/Switzerland
1988
Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation Award, Berne/Switzerland
1986
Othmar Schoeck Award, Biel/Switzerland
International Art Fairs
2009
Artefiera Bologna (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami / Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
2008
Pulse Miami (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
HKIAF, Hong Kong (Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong)
KIAF Seoul (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Art Cologne (Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
Circa, Puerto Rico (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair (Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong)
Scope New York (Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
Seoul Art Fair Busan/South Korea (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Art Dubai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Art Karlsruhe (Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
Artefiera Bologna (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
2007
Art Basel Miami Beach (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Kunst 07 Zurich (Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
Hong Kong International Contemporary Art Fair (Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong)
KIAF Seoul (Cosmos Gallery, Seoul)
Art Cologne (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami & Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin)
Gulf Art Fair Dubai (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair, Miami (Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf/Toronto)
2006
Art Basel Miami Beach (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Toronto Art Fair (Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf/Toronto)
Kunst 06 Zurich (Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz)
Art Cologne (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami)
Art Singapore (Art-2 Gallery, Singapore)
Scope Hamptons, New York (Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York)
2005
AAF Contemporary Art Fair New York City (Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich)
Kunst 05 Zurich (Galerie Ueker&Ueker, Basle)
2004
Art Frankfurt (Galerie Artrepco, Zurich)
Kunst 04 Zurich (Galerie Artrepco, Zurich)
Solo Exhibitions
2009
KAFL Gallery, Dubai/UAE
Hyposwiss Privatbank, Zurich/Switzerland
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
C.A.M. Galeri, Istanbul/Turkey
2008
Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz/Germany
Cosmos Gallery, Seoul/South Korea
Octavia Gallery, New Orleans/USA
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
2007
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA
Galerie Ueker&Ueker, Basle, Switzerland
2006
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Galerie Elisabeth Costa, Pontresina/Switzerland
2005
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland (with catalogue)
Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Galerie Christine Brügger, Berne/Switzerland
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein
2004
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich/Switzerland
2002
Galerie Christine Brügger, Berne/Switzerland
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich/Switzerland
2001
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne/Switzerland
Yehudi Menuhin Festival, Gstaad/Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2008
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
C.A.M. Galeri, Istanbul/Turkey
Visarte, Swiss Visual Arts Association, Musée des Beaux Arts, Neuchâtel/Switzerland
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein
Galerie Elisabeth Costa, Pontresina/Switzerland
Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz/Germany
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA
C.A.M. Galeri, Istanbul/Turkey
2007
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA, with Shirley Kaneda, Pia Fries and Robert Rauschenberg
Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz/Germany
Galerie Elisabeth Costa, Pontresina/Switzerland
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
Bernd Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto/Canada
2006
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich/Switzerland
Galerie Bernd Lausberg, Dusseldorf/Germany
Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basle/Switzerland
Visarte Zurich, Swiss Visual Arts Association,
Künstlerhaus Solothurn/Switzerland
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami/USA
Galerie Florian Trampler, Diessen/Germany
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
2005
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia/USA
Gallery Art-2, Singapore
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein, with Daniel Spoerri, Christian Megert and Herbert Albrecht
Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich/Switzerland
Visarte Zurich, Swiss Visual Arts Association, Haus Metropol, Zurich/Switzerland (with catalogue)
Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York/USA
2004
Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Hochfelden/Switzerland
2003
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz/Liechtenstein, with Max Bill and Gottfried Honegger
2002
Galerie Artrepco, Zurich/Switzerland
2001
Museum Abbatiale de Payerne/Switzerland, "Peinture et
Musique", with Kandinsky, Mirò, Hartung, Schwitters,
Poliakoff (with catalogue)
Permanent Collections
Permanently represented through acquisition of work at the
Museum Abbatiale de Payerne, Switzerland, at the Mezzanin Stiftung
für Kunst, Schaan/Liechtenstein, in the UBS Art Collection and in
well-known private art collections (Rudin, De Woody, Lord Norman Foster).
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