Reto Bieri
Clarinetist Reto Bieri is one of the world's top players of his instrument, associated for some years with the ECM label. He is also a noted educator and served as director of Switzerland's Davos Festival.
Bieri was born in Zug, Switzerland, in 1975. His first musical experiences came not with the classics but with Swiss folk music, playing in local taverns when he was young. Bieri at first planned a career as a schoolteacher but then switched to music, attending the Music Academy in Basel and working with clarinetist François Benda. He went on for further study at the Juilliard School in New York with Charles Neidich. Also formative were studies of chamber music with composer György Kurtág and pianist Krystian Zimerman; these left Bieri with an orientation toward contemporary music. A breakthrough came in 2001 when Bieri won a prize at the Tribune International des Jeunes Interprètes, a competition organized by European radio stations. That year, he recorded an album of American clarinet music for Pan Classics. His second recording, for Claves in 2008, was devoted to clarinet transcriptions of music by Schubert.
Bieri's concert career has been international and has included appearances with Kremerata Baltica, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, as well as all the leading Swiss orchestras. His chamber music collaborators are a top-notch group, including Heinz Holliger, Gidon Kremer, and Zoltan Kocsis, as well as leading string quartets from across Europe. In the 2010s, his career has continued to develop. He signed with the ECM label and released the solo album Contrechant in 2011; he has gone on to appear on several other releases on the label. In 2014, Bieri became director of the Davos Festival -- Young Artists in Concert, and he has distinctively shaped the festival's programming. With the chamber group Meta4, Bieri released the album Quasi morendo, featuring music by Brahms, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Gérard Pesson, in 2019. He returned in 2024 on the Alpha label with the trio chamber recital Take 3, joining violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Polina Leschenko. Bieri has served as professor of chamber music at the University of Würzburg in Germany and lives with his family in the Swiss Alps.
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Take 3
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Reto Bieri, Polina Leschenko
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 26 janv. 2024
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Markus Hinterhauser, Reto Bieri
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 1 nov. 1998
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Quasi morendo
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 10 mai 2019
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Musique pour clarinette & piano
Classique - Paru chez Claves Records le 1 mars 2008
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Contrechant
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 30 sept. 2011
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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: 3. Andantino
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 12 avr. 2019
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Quasi morendo
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 10 mai 2019
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GAIA Music Festival 2013: Music of Hiller & Piazzolla (Live)
Gwendolyn Masin, Andrei Pushkarev, Reto Bieri, Anna Lipkind, Aleksei Kiseliov
Musique de chambre - Paru chez GAIA Recordings le 5 janv. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo