Helena Winkelmanaus neue Musik

Helena Winkelman (* 27 February 1974 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer and violinist.

Life

Helena Winkelman comes from a family of musicians and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. She studied violin at the Lucerne Conservatory with Herbert Scherz and Gunars Larsens, at the Heidelberg-Mannheim Academy of Music with Valery Gradow and in New York with Daniel Phillips. At the Basel Music Academy she studied with Thomas Füri and composition with Roland Moser, where she graduated, and Georg Friedrich Haas. She attended master classes with Gidon Kremer, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Beat Furrer, Peter Eötvös, György Kurtág and Pierre Favre, among others.

She has been a freelance composer and violinist since 1997. She plays solo recitals and chamber music concerts and devotes herself to both free and stylistic improvisation. In 2011 she took over the artistic direction of the Camerata Variabile Basel.

In 2001 she won the Pro Musicis Award, Paris, as a violinist and subsequently gave concerts at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) and Salle Cortot Paris. She has recorded for Radio DRS 2, WBGH Boston and SDR Stuttgart. She performed at the Open Chamber Music Festival in Prussia Cove and made guest appearances at the Bastad Festival (Sweden), the Alpentöne Festival (Switzerland), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Davos Festival. From 2003 to 2008 she was a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado. In 2013 she was Composer in Residence at the Ernen Festival and in 2014 at the Lockenhaus Festival.

Winkelman has received commissions from the Harvard Musical Association Boston, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Basel Sinfonietta, Pro Helvetia, IGNM Basel, the IMS Prussia Cove Chamber Music Festival, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Zürich, the Lucerne Festival and the Alpentöne Festival, among others. Her works have also been performed worldwide, including by Ensemble Phoenix Basel, the Arditti Quartet, the Schumann Quartet, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, and numerous soloists. In 2015 she represented Switzerland (SGNM/ISCM Switzerland) at the ISCM World New Music Days in Slovenia.

Winkelman has lived in Basel since 1998.

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