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LAKE GETAWAY
We are following in the footsteps of Brahms who went green for the summer! During his vacation on the banks of Lake Thun, he composed his cello sonata number 2, and at Bad Ischl, in the Austrian lake region of Salzkammergut, he wrote his pieces for clarinet, the final ones before his death. He was fascinated by nature and it inspired his most beautiful scores.
TRIO WINDOW
The Trio Window has been gradually formed by the clarinetist Damien Bachmann who already worked quite regularly with the cellist Estelle Revaz. Estelle herself played already a lot of duo repertoire with the pianist Christian Chamorel. “Window” is a kind of reference to the “wind" instrument that the clarinet is as well as a metaphor for the window itself, a metaphor dear to many painters in the sense that a window invites the viewer to escape towards distant and poetic horizons. The Trio Window has performed in Europe but also in Asia in places such as the NCPA in Beijing, the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai or the Opera House in Guangzhou.
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DAMIEN BACHMANN
Damien Bachmann, born in Geneva, is one of the most famous clarinetists of his generation. Winner of more than twenty national and international competitions, he performed on some of the prestigious stages in Europe and Asia. His performances and his play are regularly hailed by the press who defines him as "a musician who has achieved grace, ease and prodigious freedom, and who paradoxically knows how to pass from a phrasing of extreme gentleness to an ardor carrying even the minds the numbest minds "(24H, 2017).
Damien Bachmann studied with internationally renowned soloists and teachers such as François Benda in Basel, Paolo Beltramini in Lucerne, Harri Mäki in Helsinki, Michel Westphal, Thomas Friedli and René Meyer in Geneva. He had the opportunity to improve with Andreas Sunden, Wenzel Fuchs and Bernhard Röthlisberger. Since 2018 he has been in Studies: “Master of virtuosity” (Konzert Exam) at the Musikhochschule-Freiburg (Germany) with Kilian Herold.
Damien Bachmann won several first prizes at the "Cluj International Music Competition for Clarinet 2015" in Romania, the "1st Béla Kovacs International Clarinet Competition" in Hungary, and the "38th National Competition of Musical Execution" of Riddes in Switzerland. In September 2019 he won the Gold Medal at the 3rd Berliner International Music Competition in the category “Wind: Professional.”
He has played as a soloist with orchestras such as the Sinfonie Orchester Basel, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Zürcher Kammerorchester, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia and the Argovia Philharmonics. He won several prices such as the Migros, Friedl-Wald, Schenk, Dienemann, Marescotti, Nicati and Hirschmann awards, as well as the prestigious "Förderpreis" 2016 from the BOG Foundation in Basel and a second prize at the "Kiefer Hablitzel 2018 Music Competition".
Passionate about chamber music, Damien Bachmann is regularly invited to play with established artists of his generation, such as the pianists Christian Chamorel, Nikita Mndoyants, Florian Noack and François-Xavier Poizat, with the violinist Aleksey Igudesman, the cellists Lionel Cottet, Estelle Revaz, Christoph Croisé, Astrig Siranossian, but also with the Ebène String Quartet, the Casal String Quartet, the Aviv String Quartet, the Gehrard String Quartet, the Terpsycordes String Quartet and the Geneva String Quartet. He has performed in recital or solo concerts in China's famous
concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, in Switzerland at the Tonhalle Zürich and Victoria Hall in Geneva, and in France, Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary.
He is part of the CHAARTS Chamber Artists as solo clarinet and regularly plays as a guest with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland.
Since the clarinet can play different repertoires, Damien Bachmann also collaborates with musicians from other horizons. He is involved in the creation of shows for children such as "On a perched tree” created in 2017 in the tradition of educator Jaques-Dalcroze, or the project "Heimat - Apartment House recomposed" of the multi-disciplinary collective Mycelium. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the Puplinge Classique Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in the summer of 2019.
CHRISTIAN CHAMOREL
A “lively and eloquent” pianist (Diapason) and a “perfect stylist” with a “jubilatory and orchestral” play (Classica), Christian Chamorel is one of the few French-speaking Swiss pianists whose influence goes beyond the country's borders. His commitment to Lied and chamber music makes him a highly sought-after artistic partner whose communication skills and generosity are celebrated by everyone.
Chamorel was a guest in prestigious festivals such as the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland; Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Klavierfestival Ruhr and Schloss Elmau in Germany; Musicales du Golfe, Lisztomanias and Menton Music Festival in France; and the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome. He has performed in the US and Canada; in Beijing’s NCPA; Tokyo’s Musashino Hall and Kioi Hall; Berlin's Konzerthaus; Munich's Prinzregententheater; Zurich’s Tonhalle; London's Wigmore Hall; and Geneva's Victoria Hall.
Chamorel studied under Christian Favre at the Conservatoire de Lausanne where he was awarded a “Virtuosité” and highest honours from the jury at the age of 17. He went on to study at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater with Gerhard Oppitz, graduating as a soloist in 2004. In May 2006 he graduated as a soloist from Zurich’s Musikhochschule under the supervision of Homero Francesch.
Prizewinner of several international competitions (Gian Battista Viotti in Vercelli, Vienna’s Beethoven, Geneva’s Société des Arts), Christian Chamorel performs with orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra Fribourg, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Menuhin Academy Soloists and the Frankfurter Solisten.
Christian Chamorel’s Liszt, Mendelssohn, Franck and, more recently, Mozart recordings have been praised by international critics. Two of his recordings were nominated for Best Recording of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards.
Chamorel also collaborates with a number of internationally renowned instrumentalists and singers such as the Sine Nomine Quartet, pianist Finghin Collins, mezzo-sopranos Marie-Claude Chappuis and Karine Deshayes, baritone Benjamin Appl and violinist Rachel Kolly d’Alba.
Christian Chamorel is the founding member and artistic director of the “Mont Musical,” a Lied and chamber music festival in Le-Mont-sur-Lausanne whose strong themes appeal to a broad and enthusiastic audience.
