Aida Stucki

Aida Stucki
Background information
Born (1921-02-19)19 February 1921
Cairo
Died 9 June 2011(2011-06-09) (aged 90)
Instruments violin

Aida Stucki (19 February 1921, Cairo – 9 June 2011) was a Swiss violinist and educator.

Life

Aida Stucki studied with Ernst Wolters in Winterthur, Stefi Geyer in Zurich and Carl Flesch in Lucerne. She won the Geneva Competition in 1940, which opened doors to versatile concert activities under the most famous conductors all over Europe including Pina Pozzi, Walter Frey, Christoph Lieske, Clara Haskil and Elly Ney.

Together with her husband, the First Concertmaster of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Zurich Giuseppe Piraccini, the principal violist Friedrich Hermann, later Gerhard Wieser and the solo cellist Walter Haefeli she founded in 1959, the Piraccini-Stucki String Quartet, which soon gained an international reputation.

As early as 1948 she began teaching in Winterthur, and in 1992, she joined the first violin master class of the former Winterthur Conservatory (today Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), where she worked until her resignation. Their most famous pupil is Anne-Sophie Mutter. Many musicians, who today dominate the international musical life, emerged from the school.[1]

In 1975 she was awarded the prize of the Winterthur Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Foundation.

Awards

Literature

References

  1. "Violinist and teacher Aida Stucki dies aged 90 - The Strad". The Strad. Retrieved 2016-01-19.

External links

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
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