Swiss Alps Classics 2024 - Eldbjørg Hemsing, violin

The Swiss Alps Classics stands for beautiful, sometimes extraordinary venues around the mystical St. Gotthard as well as for personal proximity to world-class artists. Star pianists such as LANG LANG, Igor LEVIT or Katia & Marielle LABÈQUE, the opera greats Olga PERETYATKO, Marisol MONTALVO and Herbert LIPPERT, the violin virtuosos Maxim BRILINSKY, Ziyu HE, Benjamin SCHMID & Emmanuel TJEKNAVORIAN, who also appeared as a conductor in 2019 & 2021, the internationally renowned composer and clarinettist Jörg WIDMANN, acclaimed formations such as the PHILHARMONIA SCHRAMMELN WIEN, TRIOLOGY or the JANOSKA ENSEMBLE as well as members of the WIENER PHILHARMONIKER have honored us in the course of the past festivals. Actress Isabel KARAJAN and Swiss-born Dieter FLURY, long-time principal flautist and former managing director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the "family duo" Elena BASHKIROVA-BARENBOIM and Michael BARENBOIM and Hans and Martin HASELBÖCK also enjoyed the unmistakable atmosphere of Swiss Alps Classics.

The Nätschen middle station, the Crystal Hall Sasso San Gottardo, the Benedictine Monastery Disentis, the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne with its fantastic view of Lake Lucerne and the Park Hotel Vitznau, situated in an equally picturesque setting on Lake Lucerne, have already served as unusual concert venues. We were also able to offer concerts at The Chedi Andermatt Hotel and the Andermatt Concert Hall.

We celebrated two further premieres as part of the 2023 festival: Under the direction of its chief conductor Michael SANDERLING, the LUZERNER SINFONIEORCHESTER, founded in 1805, performed with us for the first time in the Andermatt Concert Hall, with Sebastian BOHREN shining as soloist with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and we made our first guest appearance in the new chamber music hall of Kultur Kulinarik Vitznau, which opened in February 2023 and in which we not only continued our long-standing collaboration with the POK Pühringer Private Foundation and the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, but were also able to realize our heartfelt desire to showcase the cultural and touristic uniqueness of the region beyond the borders of Central Switzerland.

ELDBJØRG HEMSING, violin

HÅVARD GIMSE, piano

LUZERNER SINFONIEORCHESTER, string ensemble

NORDIC SOUNDS IN THE HEART OF ANDERMATT

Works by Edvard GRIEG, P.I. TSCHAIKOWSKY, Johan HALVORSEN and Johan SVENDSEN

COTTON CLUB ANDERMATT

21:00 Dinner Party

23:00 DJ Party

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