Marie-Louise Dähler

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Marie-Louise Dähler is a Swiss harpsichordist. As such, she is a basso continuo player, chamber music partner and soloist with a focus on improvisation.[1]

Life[edit]

Dähler grew up in Bern[1] in a family of musicians. She began playing the harpsichord at the age of five.[2] She studied pedagogy at the LehrerInnenseminar Muristalden in Bern, and harpsichord with her father, Jörg Ewald Dähler, at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, graduating with a diploma as a harpsichord pedagogue.[1] She studied further at the Musikakademie St. Gallen,[1] and with Johann Sonnleitner[2] at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, graduating with a concert diploma.[1] She passed her diplomas with distinction.[2] Together with Wolfgang Schulz, solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic, she recorded Bach's flute sonatas.[2]

Since 1999, she has collaborated with the Swiss violinist Paul Giger. She performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. She has also worked as a music teacher, in St. Gallen from 2004.[1]

Recordings[edit]

  • Changements, Rudolf Kelterborn, München / Col-Legno 1995[1]
  • Towards Silence, with Paul Giger, ECM-Records-Verlag, Gräfelfing / Universal Music, Berlin 2007[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Marie-Louise Dähler / Cembalo". Musikzentrum St. Gallen (in German). Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Paul Giger/Marie-Louise Dähler / Towards Silence" (PDF). arta.cz. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. ^ Towards Silence ECM Records
  4. ^ Paul Giger/Marie-Louise Dähler: Towards Silence (ECM New Series 2014) ecmreviews.com 8 June 2012

External links[edit]

Marie-Louise Dähler on Webarchiv