05.01.2025 17:30
Zentrum Oberwis, Saal, Birchstrasse 2b, 8472 Seuzach
Seuzach concert series - New Year's concert
From "Vienna to Verona" with popular classical music and opera melodies with 7 international soloists into the new year.
From "Vienna to Verona" with popular classical music and opera melodies with 7 international soloists into the new year.
The New Year's Concert 2025 presents light, cheerful and lively works by Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar, A. Vivaldi, G. Verdi, G. Puccini and others. They will perform excerpts from The Gypsy Baron, The Merry Widow, Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Czardasfürstin, La Traviata, Turandot with the well-known "Nessun Dorma", as well as the virtuoso Tarantella and Czardas for instrumental ensemble.
The soloists, who have won numerous awards, perform as regular guests on renowned stages and with orchestras such as La Scala in Milan, Teatro La Venice, Opera Torino, Seattle, Venice, Munich, Berlin, Zurich Opera, RSI Lugano.
The young soprano Fan Zhou has won five international competitions in just 3 years. (among others "Voci Verdiane città di Busseto"). Since 2021, Fan Zhou has already made five appearances as a soloist at La Scala in Milan, the most prestigious opera house alongside the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Paris. And she is one of the few Chinese singers to perform at this legendary opera house for the first time. She has also performed at the opera houses in Genoa, Bergamo and the Teatro Regio di Parma, as well as at major opera houses in Bilbao, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Her repertoire already includes Il Matrimonio segreto by D. Cimarosa, L`elisir d`amore by G. Donizzetti, Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart and La Traviata by G. Verdi.
The tenor John Uhlenhopp can be described as one of the most important up-and-coming tenors in the heroic repertoire. His voice impressed in Tristan, Lohengrin and Pagliacci as well as in Die Fledermaus. He has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the Bregenz Festival, the Tonhalle Zurich and Carnegie Hall, among others. He has also won the Metropolitan Opera Competition and the Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He sang I Pagliacci and Meistersinger by R. Wagner in Düsseldorf at several opera houses. From 2004 he sang Freischütz at the Deutsche Oper in Düsseldorf, Carmen in London, The Rakes Progress in Rome and Canio in Seattle (USA). In 2005, J. Uhlenhopp sang Oedipus Rex, La Joive and The Tales of Hoffmann in "La Venice", Rome and Seattle. In 2007 he sang Tristan and Isolde in Turin. In 2009/2013 he sang the leading roles in Tristan und Isolde, Boris Goudonov, Der Prinz von Homburg, Lulu, Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, Gurrelieder and Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in San Francisco, Houston, Wuppertal, Vienna, Tel Aviv and Mexico City.
An exceptional talent from a family of musicians, Beatrice completed her violin diploma with top marks and honors at the age of 16 at the "Conservatorio Guido Cantelli" under Maestro Leonardo Boero in Novara. Master classes took her to Padova, Milan and Amsterdam with Ilya Grubert and Dora Schwarzberg, among others. She won over six first prizes at international competitions and soon played the great violin concertos with orchestra: Tzigane by M. Ravel, Sinfonia Spagnola by E. Lalo with the orchestra of the Teatro Coccia Novara. Beatrice Spina was a scholarship holder of several foundations in Italy and was invited for concerts as a soloist and for chamber music. She completed her master's degree at the Università della Musica in Lugano and is in the soloist class of Prof. Marco Rizzi in Mannheim in 2024.
Veronika Miecznikowski, violin studied with Anna Modesti at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. She completed her bachelor's degree with Prof. Marco Rizzi in 2023. She was concertmaster of the Orchestra Giovanile della Svizzera italiana from 2014 to 2017 and has won prizes at several national and international competitions, including the "Premio Crescendo" in Florence (first prize in 2013) and the Swiss Youth Music Competition (first prizes at the final competitions in 2014 and 2016). Among her solo performances, the world premiere of Fabio Arnaboldi's Suite for Violin and Orchestra with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the North Caucasus in Kislovodsk, Russia (October 2016) deserves special mention. In June 2021 Veronika performs with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana as part of the Festival Ticino DOC and in November she plays a concert with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester at the Mozart Gala in Mannheim, where she wins the Mozart Prize of the Mozart Society. In June 2022 she wins 2nd prize at the "Concours d'Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne". Veronika Miecznikowski plays a violin attributed to Michael Platner, which was made available to her by Melania Magnani.
Milo Ferrazzini-Hauri, cello, began playing the cello at the age of 4. In 2006 he was accepted into Beat Helfenberger's class at the music school of the "Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana". From September 2015 he attended the class of Prof. Taisuke Yamashita at the Pre-College in Lugano. Since October 2019, he has been studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the class of Prof. Maximilian Hornung. He has won prizes at national and international competitions and, as an 18-year-old cellist, won first prize in the highest category of the Swiss Youth Music Competition in 2018. In 2019 he won 1st prize in duo with piano at the Schweiz. He also won 1st prize in the trio at the German Youth Music Competition. Thanks to this result, he received a scholarship from the Ruth and Ernst Burkhalter Foundation. He is first solo cellist in the Ticino Youth Orchestra, with which he has played Tchaikovsky's "Rococo Variations". He has also toured with this orchestra to Italy and Spain. He is a member of the ensemble "theXcellos", which won 1st prize in the Swiss Youth Music Competition in "Chamber Music" in 2018. In 2019 he again won 1st prize in the duo cello and piano at the SJMW, as well as 1st prize with distinction for the ensemble "theXcellos". In 2019 he played as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra Biel Solothurn. In recent years, he has participated in masterclasses with well-known professors such as: R.Wallfisch, R.Dieltiens, R.Rosenfeld, E.Dindo and J.Goritzky. In 2024 he played in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein as a soloist with orchestra.
Claude Hauri, cello professor at the Conservatory of Music in Monopoli (Italy) and at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, performs as a soloist and in chamber music groups throughout Europe, the USA, Australia, Japan and South America. As a soloist with orchestra, he has performed with numerous orchestras in recent years (including the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Argentina, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, the Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra and the Mantua Chamber Orchestra). As artistic director, he oversees various concert series and festivals in Ticino. Most recently, he released the CD "Brilliant Classics" with the violinist Bin Huang and the pianist Daniel Moos. He plays a wonderful cello from 1740 by Gian Battista Zanoli.
Daniel Moos, pianist, conductor and producer, studied in Lugano, Zurich, Vienna, Rome and Bayreuth. He has produced over 20 live CDs for IMP, his production company. Over 100 companies from the financial, sports, cultural, hotel, luxury, healthcare and automotive industries have booked more than 1500 events since 1993, which have been attended by around 390,000 guests. Daniel Moos founds and directs concert series in Ticino, Central Switzerland, Weinland and Graubünden. From 2013, multicultural projects are in vogue; "Asia meet Switzerland" or projects of "staged, emotionalized knowledge transfer". Moos uses music to transform conferences and specialist events into an emotional experience. The unique live show "Steps in Space" with Prof. Claude Nicollier and the "WeltraumEnsemble" is a multimedia experience in unique spheres.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
The soloists, who have won numerous awards, perform as regular guests on renowned stages and with orchestras such as La Scala in Milan, Teatro La Venice, Opera Torino, Seattle, Venice, Munich, Berlin, Zurich Opera, RSI Lugano.
The young soprano Fan Zhou has won five international competitions in just 3 years. (among others "Voci Verdiane città di Busseto"). Since 2021, Fan Zhou has already made five appearances as a soloist at La Scala in Milan, the most prestigious opera house alongside the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Paris. And she is one of the few Chinese singers to perform at this legendary opera house for the first time. She has also performed at the opera houses in Genoa, Bergamo and the Teatro Regio di Parma, as well as at major opera houses in Bilbao, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Her repertoire already includes Il Matrimonio segreto by D. Cimarosa, L`elisir d`amore by G. Donizzetti, Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart and La Traviata by G. Verdi.
The tenor John Uhlenhopp can be described as one of the most important up-and-coming tenors in the heroic repertoire. His voice impressed in Tristan, Lohengrin and Pagliacci as well as in Die Fledermaus. He has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the Bregenz Festival, the Tonhalle Zurich and Carnegie Hall, among others. He has also won the Metropolitan Opera Competition and the Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He sang I Pagliacci and Meistersinger by R. Wagner in Düsseldorf at several opera houses. From 2004 he sang Freischütz at the Deutsche Oper in Düsseldorf, Carmen in London, The Rakes Progress in Rome and Canio in Seattle (USA). In 2005, J. Uhlenhopp sang Oedipus Rex, La Joive and The Tales of Hoffmann in "La Venice", Rome and Seattle. In 2007 he sang Tristan and Isolde in Turin. In 2009/2013 he sang the leading roles in Tristan und Isolde, Boris Goudonov, Der Prinz von Homburg, Lulu, Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, Gurrelieder and Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in San Francisco, Houston, Wuppertal, Vienna, Tel Aviv and Mexico City.
An exceptional talent from a family of musicians, Beatrice completed her violin diploma with top marks and honors at the age of 16 at the "Conservatorio Guido Cantelli" under Maestro Leonardo Boero in Novara. Master classes took her to Padova, Milan and Amsterdam with Ilya Grubert and Dora Schwarzberg, among others. She won over six first prizes at international competitions and soon played the great violin concertos with orchestra: Tzigane by M. Ravel, Sinfonia Spagnola by E. Lalo with the orchestra of the Teatro Coccia Novara. Beatrice Spina was a scholarship holder of several foundations in Italy and was invited for concerts as a soloist and for chamber music. She completed her master's degree at the Università della Musica in Lugano and is in the soloist class of Prof. Marco Rizzi in Mannheim in 2024.
Veronika Miecznikowski, violin studied with Anna Modesti at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. She completed her bachelor's degree with Prof. Marco Rizzi in 2023. She was concertmaster of the Orchestra Giovanile della Svizzera italiana from 2014 to 2017 and has won prizes at several national and international competitions, including the "Premio Crescendo" in Florence (first prize in 2013) and the Swiss Youth Music Competition (first prizes at the final competitions in 2014 and 2016). Among her solo performances, the world premiere of Fabio Arnaboldi's Suite for Violin and Orchestra with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the North Caucasus in Kislovodsk, Russia (October 2016) deserves special mention. In June 2021 Veronika performs with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana as part of the Festival Ticino DOC and in November she plays a concert with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester at the Mozart Gala in Mannheim, where she wins the Mozart Prize of the Mozart Society. In June 2022 she wins 2nd prize at the "Concours d'Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne". Veronika Miecznikowski plays a violin attributed to Michael Platner, which was made available to her by Melania Magnani.
Milo Ferrazzini-Hauri, cello, began playing the cello at the age of 4. In 2006 he was accepted into Beat Helfenberger's class at the music school of the "Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana". From September 2015 he attended the class of Prof. Taisuke Yamashita at the Pre-College in Lugano. Since October 2019, he has been studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the class of Prof. Maximilian Hornung. He has won prizes at national and international competitions and, as an 18-year-old cellist, won first prize in the highest category of the Swiss Youth Music Competition in 2018. In 2019 he won 1st prize in duo with piano at the Schweiz. He also won 1st prize in the trio at the German Youth Music Competition. Thanks to this result, he received a scholarship from the Ruth and Ernst Burkhalter Foundation. He is first solo cellist in the Ticino Youth Orchestra, with which he has played Tchaikovsky's "Rococo Variations". He has also toured with this orchestra to Italy and Spain. He is a member of the ensemble "theXcellos", which won 1st prize in the Swiss Youth Music Competition in "Chamber Music" in 2018. In 2019 he again won 1st prize in the duo cello and piano at the SJMW, as well as 1st prize with distinction for the ensemble "theXcellos". In 2019 he played as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra Biel Solothurn. In recent years, he has participated in masterclasses with well-known professors such as: R.Wallfisch, R.Dieltiens, R.Rosenfeld, E.Dindo and J.Goritzky. In 2024 he played in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein as a soloist with orchestra.
Claude Hauri, cello professor at the Conservatory of Music in Monopoli (Italy) and at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, performs as a soloist and in chamber music groups throughout Europe, the USA, Australia, Japan and South America. As a soloist with orchestra, he has performed with numerous orchestras in recent years (including the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Argentina, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, the Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra and the Mantua Chamber Orchestra). As artistic director, he oversees various concert series and festivals in Ticino. Most recently, he released the CD "Brilliant Classics" with the violinist Bin Huang and the pianist Daniel Moos. He plays a wonderful cello from 1740 by Gian Battista Zanoli.
Daniel Moos, pianist, conductor and producer, studied in Lugano, Zurich, Vienna, Rome and Bayreuth. He has produced over 20 live CDs for IMP, his production company. Over 100 companies from the financial, sports, cultural, hotel, luxury, healthcare and automotive industries have booked more than 1500 events since 1993, which have been attended by around 390,000 guests. Daniel Moos founds and directs concert series in Ticino, Central Switzerland, Weinland and Graubünden. From 2013, multicultural projects are in vogue; "Asia meet Switzerland" or projects of "staged, emotionalized knowledge transfer". Moos uses music to transform conferences and specialist events into an emotional experience. The unique live show "Steps in Space" with Prof. Claude Nicollier and the "WeltraumEnsemble" is a multimedia experience in unique spheres.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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