Matinée des Jeunes Etoiles VIII – Kiefer Hablitzel Prize Winners    

Chamber Music

Saturday, 2 September 2017
11.30 am, Gstaad Chapel

The Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation once again presents brilliant artists. Arata Yumi is a true child prodigy, beginning to play the violin at the age of four and the winner of a number of international competitions (Guadagnini Tokyo, Wieniawski & Lipinski…). After years of study with Akiko Tatsumi and Zakhar Bron, he now studies with Ilya Gringolts at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2015. He was a sensation at last year’s festival in a Matinée des Jeunes Etoiles concert. Stefanie Mirwald was born in Germany and studied the accordion with Stefan Hussong in Würzbug and with Mike Svoboda in Basel, with whom she earned a master degree specializing in contemporary music. She found the duo “SaitenZungenspiel” with violinist Elisabeth Horn in 2008 and has been a member of the ensemble zone expérimentale in Basel since 2014. Born in Varese, Alice Rossi is currently studying with Barbara Zanichelli and Luisa Castellani in Lugano. She made her operatic debut in Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” under the direction of Arturo Tamayo. Two years later she won Third Prize at the Cesti Competition for Baroque Opera in Innsbruck.