Various Composers - Frauenstimmen (Anna Fortova; Kathrin Schmidlin)

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• Vítězslava Kaprálová - Ritornell for Cello and Piano, Op. 25
• Nadia Boulanger - 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano
• Lili Boulanger - 3 Morceaux for Piano
• Henriette Bosmans - Sonata for Cello and Piano
• Fanny Mendelssohn - Das Jahr (selection)
• Stephanie Haensler - „Ni dónde, ni cómo“ for Cello and Piano

Anna Fortova, cello

Kathrin Schmidlin, piano

Date: 2021

Label: Claves

https://www.claves.ch/products/frauenstimmen-duo-anna-fortova-kathrin-schmidlin

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The Prague-born cellist Anna Fortova (born 1982) studied with Daniel Veis at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, music pedagogy at the Basel University of Music, and Baroque cello with Petr Skalka at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Besides working with Czech and Swiss orchestras, she has also played in different chamber ensembles for many years and is active as a teacher (at the Music School in Allschwil). She also engages in musical crossover with folk-rock bands, the Eve Quartet, and the jazz musician Emil Viklický. Fortova and Swiss pianist Kathrin Schmidlin have been playing as a duo since 2015.

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The Swiss pianist Kathrin Schmidlin, born in 1990, studied with Karl-Andreas Kolly at the Zurich University of the Arts, Wolfgang Manz at the Nuremberg University of Music and Tobias Schabenberger at the Basel Academy of Music. Her performances have taken her to Munich, Paris, Bayreuth, Gladbeck, Basel, Sils Maria, and the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad. Schmidlin has specialised in the performance of little-known female composers. From 2018 to 2023, she taught piano at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich. Since 2023, Schmidlin has been teaching a piano class in the Basel region.

https://www.kathrin-schmidlin.com/

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