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Simone Zgraggen (born 8 August 1975 in Altdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss
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ist and
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at Freiburg University of Music.


Career

Simone Zgraggen began playing the
violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
at the age of five. She studied from 1991 to 1994 at Lucerne University of Music under Alexander van Wijnkoop, from 1994 to 1995 at Basel Conservatory also under van Wijnkoop and from 1996 to 2002 at Karlsruhe University of Music under
Ulf Hoelscher Ulf Hoelscher (born 17 January 1942 in Kitzingen) is a German violinist. He has been soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He has recorded numerous concertos by S ...
. She received all degrees with highest honors. In 2012 she was appointed to a professorship for violin at Freiburg University of Music after having taught violin classes at Zurich Conservatory from 2001 to 2012 and violin
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at Karlsruhe University of Music from 2001 to 2004. Simone Zgraggen is
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of the
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and the Zuger Sinfonietta.Official website of the Zuger Sinfonietta
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Instrument

Simone Zgraggen plays the
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violin Golden Bell of 1668. She uses bows made by Louis Henri Gillet,
Alfred Lamy Alfred Lamy (1886–1922) was a French maker of bows.Mary VanClayFinding Good Values in Bows Strings Magazine, July 2000, No. 87 Son of Joseph Jean Baptiste Lamy was born in Mirecourt, Vosges, France. He was apprenticed in Mirecourt with Bazin B ...
, Claude Thomassin and a baroque bow built by Carsten G. Löschmann.


Awards and recognition

* Heinrich Danioth Arts and Culture Foundation: First Prize (2006) *
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonie ...
Conservatory Competition: First Prize (2002) *
Carl Flesch Carl Flesch (born Károly Flesch, 9 October 1873 – 14 November 1944) was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium ''Scale System'' is a staple of violin pedagogy. Life and career Flesch was born in Moson (now part of ...
Academy Baden-Baden, Germany: Brahms Prize and Lions Award (2001) *
Meadowmount School of Music The Meadowmount School of Music, founded in 1944 by Ivan Galamian, is a 7-week summer school in the town of Lewis, Essex County, New York, Lewis (mailing address Westport, New York, Westport) in Upstate New York for young violinists, cellists, vio ...
: Shar Award (1999)


Discography

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(8.551474) : Dieter Ammann: Unbalanced Instability (''with Baldur Brönnimann und Basel Sinfonietta'') *
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(Claves 50–2503) :
Othmar Schoeck Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss List of Romantic-era composers, Romantic classical composer, opera composer, musician, and Conductor (music), conductor. He was known mainly for his considerable output of lied, art ...
: The 3 Violin Sonatas (''with Ulrich Koella'') * Genuin classics (GEN 86521
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Luigi Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and '' galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classi ...
: String Quintet in E major, Op. 13 No. 5 (''with Schubert-Quintett'') :
Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
: String Quintet in C major, D 956 - Op. post. 163 (''with Schubert-Quintett'') * Bella Musica (BM 31.2345) :
Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period (music), Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, oft ...
: Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra in A minor, Op. 102 (''with Grigory Alumyan and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic under Werner Stiefel'') :
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
: Partita in D minor for solo violin
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Simone Zgraggen
at Freiburg University of Music {{DEFAULTSORT:Zgraggen, Simone 1975 births Living people Swiss classical violinists Swiss women violinists Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe alumni 21st-century classical violinists Women classical violinists