Janina Ruh is the third SWR2 New Talent
After singer Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and pianist Alexej Gorlatch, 25-year-old cellist Janina Ruh, who studied at the Zurich University of the Arts at the age of 12, is the third young musician to benefit from the SWR2 New Talent initiative launched by cultural broadcaster SWR2 in 2013.
SWR2 will promote Janina Ruh until 2016 in its radio program, with appearances at SWR events and through CD productions. She impressed the jury from the music editorial team "with her high level of musicality, sophisticated technique and great confidence and stage presence", writes the broadcaster. The jury's decision was unanimous.
Janina Ruh, born in Rottweil in 1989, was already a junior student at the Zurich University of the Arts with Susanne Basler at the age of twelve. After various studies at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts, the cellist completed masterclasses with Gustav Rivinius, Troels Svane, Ralph Kirshbaum and Jens Peter Maintz, among others.
