Monighetti ends teaching activities in Basel
Ivan Monighetti ends his tenure as Professor of Violoncello at the FHNW Academy of Music with a Violoncello Festival: four concerts in which he performs together with his master students and lecturers from the FHNW Academy of Music.
Ivan Monighetti taught cello at the Hochschule für Musik and the Musik-Akademie Basel for almost 30 years. Now he is retiring. The last master student of the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory, he has accompanied several generations of ambitious cello students at the Basel Academy of Music and has had a lasting influence on numerous young musicians as a teacher and artist.
He taught Sol Gabetta and Kian Soltani for around ten years each. While Sol Gabetta has long been one of the most sought-after cellists in the world, Kian Soltani, who is a generation younger, is on his way to becoming a world star on his instrument. They have both won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, among others. Sol Gabetta has just received the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Now the International Violoncello Festival in Basel is being held in Monighetti's honour with four concerts between April and June: three of them in the Great Hall of the Musik-Akademie and a gala concert with the Basel Symphony Orchestra in the Musical Theater Basel. In addition to Sol Gabetta and Kian Soltani, other internationally renowned musicians such as Mischa Maisky and Frans Helmerson will be performing with Monighetti.
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