Priska Weibel

Priska Weibel was born close to Zurich, Switzerland. She studied classical guitar under the guidance of Carlo Marchione and lute, baroque guitar, basso continuo and historically informed performance with Yasunori Imamura.

She graduated with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the „Maastricht Conservatorium“(NL) and she also holds a “diplôme de spécialisation” from the “conservatoire de Strasbourg”.

Before and during her studies she has won several prizes and special awards at national and international competitions including „Schweizerischer Jugendmusik“ and the competition „Andrés Segovia“ in Velbert (D). She was selected to take part in the European Youth Guitar Ensemble conducted by Leo Brower and received awards from the „Fritz-Gerber-Stiftung für begabte junge Menschen“ and „Bank Vontobel“.

In 2014 she was founder and artistic director of a new concert series called “Erlebniskonzerte” where music fuses with painting, theatre, dancing, and other art disciplines.

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Education and awards

2014

DEM degree, conservatory Strasbourg

From 2008 to 2014 Priska Weibel studied lute, baroque guitar, basso continuo and historically informed performance with Yasunori Imamura at the conservatory in Strasbourg (F) where she graduated with a DEM degree.

2008

Master’s degree, conservatory Maastricht

Priska Weibel completed her studies in the Netherlands with the Master’s degree from the conservatory Maastricht (NL) in 2008.

2006

Bachelor’s degree, conservatory Maastricht

In 2006 Priska Weibel gained a Bachelor’s degree from the conservatory Maastricht (NL) where she studied classical guitar with Carlo Marchione.

Scholarships

Priska Weibel obtained several scholarships from „Fritz-Gerber Stiftung für begabte, junge Menschen“ and „Bank Vontobel“.

Prizes and awards

Before and during her studies Priska Weibel has won several prizes and special awards at national and international competitions including „Schweizerischer Jugendmusik Wettbewerb“ and the competition „Andrés Segovia“ in Velbert (D).

Projects

Playing Basso Continuo as a member of different chamber music groups and baroque orchestras

Playing early music on historic instruments opened the door to a special musical language for me. Even if there has already been done a lot of research on early music, there are still many musical treasures, slumbering in libraries waiting to be discovered.

Since I started to be interested in interpreting early music, there has been a haunting question I ask myself: How can we perform early music authentically and play in a modern context for an audience with 21st century ears at the same time? Searching for different answers is an important an exciting challenge.

Erlebniskonzerte

My fascination for the expression of the unspeakable lead to the idea of a special concert series, called „Erlebniskonzerte“. The core of this concept is the merging of music with different art disciplines such as dancing, acting, narration, painting and so on.

The series consisted of four different concerts that took place in Zurich in 2014. An aperitif offered directly after the concert allowed the audience to get to know the artists and exchange thoughts on the experience with other interested people. Information about the continuation of the series will be published on this website soon.

Collaboration with actors and accompanying improvisational theatre

Since I developed and performed a special concert program together with actress Maura Berardi in 2012, I enjoy working with actors on different projects.

In the last four years multiple Programmes of mixed arts were developed, for instance „Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen“ a music-theatre play inspired by the book „Where the wild things are“ by M.Sendak

2014 marked the first release of the play „Facts and Recipes“ written for an actress, a dancer and two guitars by the Icelandic composer Bára Sigurjónsdóttir.

Time after time, I accompany improvisational plays in various theatres in and around Zurich.