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The GAIA Chamber Music Festival founded by the violinist Gwendolyn Masin
Gwendolyn Masin
-Early Biography:Born in Amsterdam, Gwendolyn Masin is the descendant of a long line of professional musicians from Central and Eastern Europe.Masin began to play the piano at the age of 3. She took up the violin at the age of 5 and within her initial year of schooling, gave her first public...

 is described as one of the most important festivals in Switzerland
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. The festival is hosted in Thun
Thun
Thun is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 42,136 inhabitants , as of 1 January 2006....

, usually in the month of May.

History

The GAIA Chamber Music Festival was founded in 2006, and hosted near Stuttgart
Stuttgart
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, where it was rewarded by two consecutive years of highly-praised programmes and sold-out halls. The Festival was honoured with the Göppinger Kulturpreis for its outstanding impact on the cultural landscape. In 2009, the Festival made its debut in Thun.

Musicians

Each year, artists from all over the globe spend just over a week living and working together in Thun. The invitees, reflecting GAIA’s objectives, have contributed to the world of arts
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 in unusual and exciting ways. So far more then fifty artists have performed at the GAIA Festival.

Artists featured

Violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

: Gabriel Adorján, Florian Bachofer, Hovhannes Baghdasaryan, Sandrine Cantoreggi
Sandrine Cantoreggi
Sandrine Marie Adèle Cantoreggi is a Luxembourgish violinist who has gained an international reputation, performing both at home and abroad as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals. She also teaches the violin at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg...

, Yun-Jin Cho, Anke Dill, Daniel Garlitsky
Daniel Garlitsky
Daniel Garlitsky is a Russian violinist.-Biography:Born into a family of violinists and pedagogues in Moscow, Daniel Garlitsky was accepted to the specialised “Gnessin” school at the age of 6, beginning violin and piano studies there.In 1991 the Garlitsky family moved to France where the young...

, Philippe Graffin
Philippe Graffin
Philippe Graffin is a French violinist and recording artist. He was born in Romilly-sur-Seine, France.The French Violinist Philippe Graffin was a student of the late Joseph Gingold and Philippe Hirschhorn and has established a particular reputation for his interpretations of his native repertoire...

, Barbara Gruszczynska, Wonji Kim, Gwendolyn Masin
Gwendolyn Masin
-Early Biography:Born in Amsterdam, Gwendolyn Masin is the descendant of a long line of professional musicians from Central and Eastern Europe.Masin began to play the piano at the age of 3. She took up the violin at the age of 5 and within her initial year of schooling, gave her first public...

, Lena Neudauer, Laura Oomens, Igor Ozim, Emi Ohi Resnick, Ioana Petcu-Colan
Ioana Petcu-Colan
Ioana Petcu-Colan is an Irish violinist of Romanian origin, currently living in Barcelona, Spain.-Biography:Ioana Petcu-Colan, born in January 1978 in Cork, Ireland is the daughter of Adrian Petcu and of Ruxandra Colan-Petcu, both her parents being musicians...

, Rahel Rilling, Alexander Sitkovetsky
Alexander Sitkovetsky
Alexander Sitkovetsky is a British violinist.-Family:Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow to a musical family; his father being guitarist and composer Alexander Sitkovetsky of the Autograph fame, mother Olga Sitkovetsky being a pianist, his great uncle and aunts being violinist Julian Sitkovetsky and...

, Sono Tokuda

Viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

: Guy Ben-Ziony, Gérard Caussé
Gérard Caussé
Gérard Caussé is a violist.He gave the first performance of the celebrated Ainsi la nuit quartet by Henri Dutilleux. The first movement of Gérard Grisey's celebrated work, Les Espaces Acoustiques , is inscribed "à Gérard Caussé." His discography amounts to thirty recordings...

, Isabel Charisius, Jan Gruening, Ilya Hoffman, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Sara Rilling, Aline Saniter, Natalia Tchitch, Mikhail Zemtsov.

Violoncello: Dávid Adorján, Antoaneta Emanuilova, Christopher Franzius, Pavel Gomziakov, Frans Helmerson, Christopher Jepson, Guy Johnston, Gavriel Lipkind
Gavriel Lipkind
Gavriel Lipkind is an Israeli classical cellist based in Germany. Lipkind made his radio debut performance aged eight, left Israel at an age of about 18, and received degrees from three music colleges. He won awards in music competitions and performed with orchestras until 2002, when he took time...

, Philippe Muller, Timora Rosler, Martti Rousi
Martti Rousi
Martti Rousi , is a Finnish cellist.Martti Rousi started to play the cello at the age of 8 in Turku. His first teachers were Timo Hanhinen and Seppo Kimanen. He then studied at the Sibelius Academy with Arto Noras and received his diploma in 1983. In 1985-86, he studied with Janos Starker at...

, Torleif Thedéen

Double Bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

: Holger Michalski

Clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

: Yevgeny Yehudin

Bassoon
Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...

: Martin Kuuskmann
Martin Kuuskmann
Martin Kuuskmann is an Estonian bassoon player.-Biography:Martin Kuuskmann was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He studied bassoon in Tallinn Music High School, Manhattan School of Music and Yale University School of Music...



Piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

: Julia Bartha, Robert Kulek, Roman Zaslavsky

Harp
Harp
The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

: Sarah Christ

Conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

: Gergely Madaras

Orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

: Grazioso Chamber Orchestra of the Hungarian National Philharmonic

Tonus-Music: Don Li

Xala: Ania Losinger

Percussion: Matthias Eser

Masterclasses

Each year, internationally-renowned performers and teachers coach young instrumentalists. During GAIA Masters, the most promising instrumentalist or chamber-music ensemble
Ensemble
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 participating in the open Masterclasses will be chosen to return in the following year – as guest artist during the annual Chamber Music Festival.

Artistic Director

Artistic director and founder of the GAIA Festival is virtuoso violinist Gwendolyn Masin.

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