“FIRST AND FOREMOST, STIR THE HEART”

“Experienced in the scientific aspect of art, as versed in the artistic aspect as any, and incompara­bly brilliant and inventive in both” – this emphatic accolade for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was penned by the knowledgeable Swiss composer and music teacher Hans Georg Nägeli. For in the second half of the 18th century, anyone speaking of the “great Bach” was not referring to Johann Sebastian, but to his second-eldest son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, who was one of the most successful musicians at the time, at least in German-speaking countries.

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NOLWENN BARGIN

The French flutist Nolwenn Bargin first studied in Paris in the class of Sophie Cherrier. Later she was admitted to the class of Jean-Claude Gérard at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, where she obtained her artistic diploma. She then studied with Davide Formisano, achieving her soloist diploma in 2010 with highest distinctions.

Currently deputy solo flutist at the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Nolwenn Bargin is regularly invited as a substitute player by renowned orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, where she played with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink and Herbert Blomstedt, or the Philharmonia Zürich where she had the chance to work with conductors such as Fabio Luisi, David Zinman and Nello Santi. Only recently she was invited by the Cameristi della Scala to the El Jem Festival.

Since 2017 Nolwenn Bargin has been professor at the Landeskonservatorium Vorarlberg in Feldkirch. She also maintains an extensive career as a soloist and chamber musician. Her chamber music partners include Lise de la Salle, Nicolas Altstaedt, Ian Bostridge and José Cura. In 2018, together with the pianist Maki Wiederkehr, she founded the ensemble “Chant du Vent”.

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