Isabel Gehweiler

Isabel Gehweiler (born January 23 1988 in Lörrach) is a German Violoncellist and Composer.
==Life==
Isabel Gehweiler received her first lessons on the violin at the age of three and switched to the violoncello at the age of six. From 1997, she was in the gifted class of Katharina Gohl-Moser at the Basel Music Academy, where she also studied chamber music. From 2004, she studied with Ivan Monighetti in Basel as a junior student parallel to school. After her Matura in 2006 at the Freie Gymnasium Basel, she began her full music studies in 2007 with Gustav Rivinius at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken. She then studied abroad from 2010 to 2012 at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Richard Aaron and completed her orchestral diploma in 2013. From 2013 to 2015, Isabel Gehweiler studied at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Zurich with Thomas Grossenbacher in the soloist class (Master of Arts Specialized Performance Soloist) and from 2015 to 2017 in the Master of Arts Music Pedagogy. From 2017 to 2022 she continued her education in a post-graduate course (CAS) in music physiology with Horst Hildebrandt.
From 2006 to 2016, Gehweiler moved between classical music and classical contemporary music, as well as performance art. She worked together with composers such as Klaus Huber, Thomas Lauck, Theo Brandmüller. Roland Moser the clarinettist Eduard Brunner, the organists Rudolf Lutz, Jörg Abbing, Bernhard Leonardy and Christian Barthenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9prQGvLvjo.
She was a member of the New Juilliard Ensemble (New York) under the direction of Joel Sachs, the Axiom Ensemble of the Juilliard School of Music under Jeffrey Milarsky and the Grenzpunkt Ensemble (Saarbrücken) under the direction of Jonathan Kaell. As part of this contemporary ensemble, she played performance projects ranging from improvised live music to silent films, to projects with contemporary dance (including with the American Ballet), to collaborations with art galleries (including the Saarlandmuseum Modern Gallery in Saarbrücken and Tart Gallery in Zurich (Switzerland))https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szo4ur1lxl4.
Gehweiler has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals such as the Verbier Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Richard Wagner Festival Bayreuth 2013, the Klangspuren Festival 2008 of the Ensemble Modern, the Kronberg Cello Festival, Interlaken Classics, the Musikfestspiele Saar and the Impuls Festival 2013.
Her compositions have been performed in Switzerland, Germany and the USA, including by the Orchestra della Svizzera italianahttps://www.operabase.com/works/just-free-37396/eu, the Camerata Zurich, the Zurich ensemble SaltoCello SaltoCello of cellist Thomas Grossenbacher (Composer in Residence from 2013-2017) and the pianist Han Chen. As a film music composer, she wrote the film music for the short film “wachrütteln/to wake”.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3983624
From 2007 to 2009, Gehweiler played the Miremont “ex Hamann” (1830) from the Baden-Württemberg state collection. Since 2009 she has been playing a newly built instrument by Ersen Aycan.
From 2016 to 2021, Isabel Gehweiler held a teaching position for cello at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She has been teaching music education at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2019.
In 2016, while still studying at the Zurich University of the Arts, she received a teaching position for cello at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. In 2017, she also began teaching cello at the Einsiedeln Music Schoolhttps://www.musikschule-einsiedeln.ch/lehrpersonen/gehweiler-isabel and in 2019 at the Zurich University of the Arts as a lecturer in music educationhttps://www.zhdk.ch/person/isabel-gehweiler-191822.
Gehweiler has performed as a chamber musician in small formations in duos with the pianist Yulia Miloslavskaya, the pianist Fiona Hengartner and the guitarist Aljaz Cvirn, with whom she released her first own classical CD in 2016 with sonatas for cello and guitar by Schubert, Gnattali and Vivaldi on the Solo Musica label.https://solo-musica.de/isabel-gehweiler/
Through her artistic residency at Christoph Homberger's Hombis Salon in Zurichhttps://hombissalon.ch/archiv-oerlikon, she met the director Christoph Marthaler in 2017 and performed in his productions Übermann ODER Die Liebe kommt zu Besuch (Deutsches Schauspielhaushttps://schauspielhaus.de/stuecke/uebermann-oder-die-liebe-kommt-zu-besuch) and in 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 (Schauspielhaus Zürichhttps://www.schauspielhaus.ch/de/archiv/16467/44-harmonies-from-apartment-house-1776) from 2018 to the end of 2019.
Since 2017, an artistic exchange with Andreas Vollenweider has developed, which resulted in the 2020 album Quiet Places by Andreas Vollenweider (feat. Isabel Gehweiler). It entered the Swiss charts at number 8 and the Billboard charts in the Classical Crossover category at number 5https://www.chartsurfer.de/artist/isabel-gehweiler/album-enrhe.html.
From January 2020, Gehweiler played together with pianist Yulia Miloslavskaya in co-productions of the Zurich light show collective Projektil with More than classic in the production Genesis, which was interrupted by the corona pandemic.https://www.morethanclassic.ch
Since 2021, she has been performing in a classical duo with Fribourg pianist Fiona Hengartner as part of the Heures de Musique de Romont and Schubertiade Fribourg festivals organized by RTS.https://www.schubertiade.ch/programmations/klang-wort-freiheit/
Gehweiler has worked as a cellist on several film productions since 2017. Among other things, she recorded Pierre Funck's film music for the series La famiglia Babulin (RTR) and Cellule de Crisehttps://www.playsuisse.ch/de/show/818611.
For pop singer Sina she played the cello parts of the song Summärwind. Since 2020 she has been playing regularly with Andreas Vollenweider and Friends at festivals such as the Jazz Festival St. Moritz, the Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg (South Africa)https://www.joyofjazz.co.za/home and the Grafenwerth Island Concerts and collaborates with artists such as Gianna Nanninihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVdxnwl0x4
== Awards ==
* Prize winner of the international Charles Hennen Chamber Music Competition in Heerlen, Netherlands
* 2004 winner of the international ESTA Student of the Year Award in Rotterdam
* 2007 European Advancement Prize for Young Artists
* Award of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
* Markgräfler Kulturförderpreis
* Scholarship from Rotary International
* Scholarship from DAAD
* Scholarship Kiwanis
* Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association.
== World premieres and dedicated works ==
* Thomas Lauck: Linien Farben II for cello and piano (dedication and premiere 2010)messages on the website of the music publisher Ricordi, retrieved on September 11, 2011.
* Demetre Gamsachurdia: Lyra Kerygma for violoncello solo (dedication and premiere 2007)
* Demetre Gamsachurdia: Sharatyn for ensemble (premiere 2007)
* Thosten Hansen: 5 Gebete for violoncello solo (dedication and premiere 2007)
* Daniel Osorio: Amquack for ensemble (premiere 2008)
* William Attwood: Tünel for ensemble (2008)
* Jared Miller: Aftermath for string quartet (2010)
* Grigory Smirnov: Syzygy (“This Happens”) for ensemble (2010)
* Lawrence Wilde: String Trio (2010/2011)
* Lawrence Wilde: Still Happens for amplified cello, marimba, vibraphone and percussion (2012)
* Lawrence Wilde: String Quartet No. 1 (2012)
* Eun-Ji Lee: Le grand jour for ensemble (2013)
* Camilo Mendez San Juan: Plegaria Muda (2013)
== Compositions ==
* “Todessehnsucht” (after fragments by Franz Kafka) for ensemble (premiere 2006)
* “Sphenomegacorona II” for string orchestra (premiere 2006 by the Camerata Zürich)
* “Sphenomegacorona III” for violoncello, bass clarinet and piano (premiere 2011)
* “2 Paraphrasen über ein Wasserspiel” for violoncello and piano (premiere 2011)
* “3 Miniatures” for transverse flute, baroque cello, harpsichord, bass clarinet, violoncello and marimba (premiere 2012)
* “Toccata sopra la monica” for baroque cello (premiere 2012 by Paul Dwyer)
* “Sphenomegacorona IV” for cello sextet (premiere 2013 by SaltoCello)
* “4 Paraphrases for the Youth” for 2 violoncellos (premiere 2014)
* “Lament” for 10 violoncellos (premiere 2015 by SaltoCello)See Youtube
* “Gedicht” for violoncello solo with voice (premiere 2015)
* “Saudade” for 8 violoncellos (premiere 2016 by SaltoCello)
* “Rubinium” for violoncello solo (2018, commissioned by the Dis de la musica Chesa Planta in Samedan)
* “Pendulum” for 2 violoncellos and marimba (2019, commissioned work Prima Volta Zurich, premiere by Chiara Enderle, Fluorin Cuonz and Fabian Ziegler)
* “Tell's Toyshop” for piano trio and 3 percussion instruments (2020-2021, commissioned by the Swiss Artist's Circle)
* “Just Free” for violoncello and orchestra (2023, commissioned by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana)https://www.operabase.com/works/just-free-37396/eu
* “Momentum” for baritone saxophone and piano (2024, commissioned by Duo Vulcain)https://simonengel.ch/de/duo-vulcain/
== Discography ==
* Thomas Lauck, Denk daran, die Erde ist eine Trommel (Naxos 2010)https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Thomas-Lauck-geb-1943-Werke-Denk-daran-die-Erde-ist-eine-Trommel/hnum/1499890
* Sonatas for cello and guitar (Saarländischer Rundfunk/Solo Musica/Sony 2018) by Schubert, Vivaldi, Gnattalihttps://solo-musica.de/gehweiler-cvirn-sonaten-fuer-violoncello-und-gitarre/
* Quiet Places, Andreas Vollenweider and Friends (MIG 2020)https://www.discogs.com/release/16015820-Andreas-Vollenweider-Featuring-Isabel-Gehweiler-Quiet-Places
* Travel 2.0 (RUBUZH Records and Media 2023)https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/4HcWfglA2htSGzgeVhJEYC/
* Notre Amour, pieces for cello and piano by Bloch, Franck, Fauré, Tailleferre, Chaminade, Juon (Solo Musica/Naxos 2024)https://solo-musica.de/isabel-gehweiler-und-fiona-hengartner-notre-amour/
* “Lieber Freund...”, works for cello and piano by Brahms, Von Herzogenberg, Röntgen (Claves 2024)https://www.claves.ch/fr/collections/chamber/products/lieber-freund-sonatas-by-brahms-rontgen-von-herzogenberg
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