Werke für Violoncello und Klavier Pi-Chin Chien & Adrian Oetiker

• Paul Juon (1872 - 1940): Sonate a-moll op. 54:
• 1 Juon: Sonate a-moll op. 54: I. Allegro moderato 08:46
• 2 Juon: Sonate a-moll op. 54: II. Andantino 03:42
• 3 Juon: Sonate a-moll op. 54: III. Allegro risoluto 05:28
• Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957): Sechs Lieder op. 6:
• 4 Schoeck: Sechs Lieder op. 6: I. Der Verlassene (Schwäbisches Volkslied) 01:35
• 5 Schoeck: Sechs Lieder op. 6: II. Schifferliedchen (Gottfried Keller) 02:04
• 6 Schoeck: Sechs Lieder op. 6: III. Vor der Ernte (C.F.Meyer) 01:14
• 7 Schoeck: Sechs Lieder op. 6: IV. Alle meine Wünsche schweigen (Paul Schoeck) 01:48
• 8 Schoeck: Sechs Lieder op. 6: V. Marienlied (Novalis) 01:27
• 9 Schoeck: Sechs Lieder op. 6: VI. Mandolinen (Paul Verlaine) 02:16
• Fabian Müller (b. 1964): Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier (2005):
• 10 Müller: Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier (2005): I. Langsam, ziemlich frei 05:52
• 11 Müller: Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier (2005): II. Adagio 06:15
• 12 Müller: Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier (2005): III. Allegro 04:56
• Suite für Violoncello und Klavier (2004):
• 13 Müller: Suite für Violoncello und Klavier (2004): I. Tempo di Marcia 03:17
• 14 Müller: Suite für Violoncello und Klavier (2004): II. Lento 04:19
• 15 Müller: Suite für Violoncello und Klavier (2004): III. Tempo di Gavotta 02:27
• 16 Müller: Suite für Violoncello und Klavier (2004): IV. Barcarole, tranquillo 04:00
• 17 Müller: Suite für Violoncello und Klavier (2004): V. Finale, Allegro 02:36
• Total Runtime 01:02:02

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At first glance, this series of works with its juxtaposition of late Romantic and contemporary Swiss composers may seem disconcerting, but if one realises that the creative engagement with folk music plays an important role in Paul Juon and Fabian Müller's work, it becomes clear that they have much in common. Othmar Schoeck stands as a kind of mediator between the Russian-born Romantic composer Paul Juon and his Zurich contemporary Fabian Müller.

As an internationally sought-after soloist and chamber musician, Pi-Chin Chien has performed on the world's great stages, such as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Tonhalle Zurich. She has performed numerous world premieres of cello concertos and chamber music works, some of which were dedicated to her.

A few years ago, Pi-Chin made this almost ‘legendary’ first recording of Paul Juon's Cello Sonata. At the time, she contributed a great deal to the rediscovery of the Swiss late Romantic composer Juon.

Swiss pianist Adrian Oetiker has performed successfully as a soloist and chamber musician for many years and is also a sought-after teacher. He studied in Homero Francesch's masterclass at the Zurich University of the Arts and with Bella Davidovich at the Juilliard School in New York, and Lazar Berman was also one of his teachers. He has won prizes in Cologne and Dublin, among other places, and in 1995 he won the ARD International Piano Competition in Munich.

Pi-Chin Chien, violoncello
Adrian Oetiker,piano

Pi-Chin Chien
is a sought-after, internationally active soloist and chamber musician. She has performed in major concert venues around the world, including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonic and Konzerthaus as well as Tonhalle Zurich. Pi-Chin Chien has performed and recorded world premieres of a number of violoncello concertos and chamber music works, including several compositions dedicated to her. As a soloist she appears on CDs with, among others, David Zinman, Ruben Gazarian and Wen-Pin Chien, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, the Krakow Philharmonic, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra and the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra.

In 2015 Pi-Chin Chien enjoyed great success with her album “Taiwan Rhapsody”, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and released by Sony Classical, as well as the album "Tea for Two Cellos" (Solo-Musica), released in 2019. Current albums are "Strings on the Move" (2020), as well as the premiere recording of the complete work for cello and piano by the Swiss late-romantic composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (former professor at the Geneva Conservatory and founder of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze), which was released 2022.

In 2021 the music which she recorded for the film "A Letter to A'ma" by Hui-Ling Chen won two prizes for the "best film music" at the international independent film festivals "Les Rimbauds du Cinema" and "SMR13" in France. ​

Pi-Chin Chien performed at the Kaiser-Otto Medal award ceremony in honor of the late former German President Richard von Weizsäcker, and in 2016, already for the second time, at the renowned concert series at Taiwan’s Presidential Palace on invitation of the President of Taiwan. She is the artistic director of the “Swiss Music Night” concert series in Taiwan and of the “Confluence” Music Festival in Zurich. In 2024, she founded the «Taiwan International Cello Festival» (TWICF), of which she is the artistic director. ​

A native of Taiwan, Pi-Chin Chien studied with Markus Stocker, Claude Starck, Marek Jerie and Stanislaw Apolin in Zurich, Lucerne and Prague, graduating with a soloist’s diploma with distinction. She received further artistic impulses in masterclasses with Pierre Fournier, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Daniil Shafran and Arto Noras. Pi-Chin Chien has won numerous awards at national and international music competitions.

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