New lecturers in Basel
From September 2022, Esther Sévérac (didactics harp), Johannes Knoll (didactics oboe), Remo Schnyder (didactics saxophone) and Rodolfo Fischer (elective orchestral conducting) will be teaching at the Basel University of Music's Department of Classical Music.
Rodolfo Fischer began his musical career as a pianist and later focused on conducting. After completing his studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Chile, he continued his studies on a scholarship at the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he was a student of pianist Richard Goode. He was then accepted into Otto Werner Muller's conducting class at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he obtained a degree in orchestral conducting.
Johannes Knoll, born in 1987 in Linz/Danube, studied oboe and historical oboe instruments in the classes of Josef Blank, Katharina Arfken and Alfredo Bernardini in Linz, Basel and Amsterdam. He then went on to study music education in Karlsruhe while working. Johannes Knoll has been active as a musician throughout Europe since 2010. In 2021, he received funding from the German Music Council for the development of a music education game for children.
Remo Schnyder studied music at the Bern University of the Arts and the University of Music FHNW in Basel, where he subsequently taught saxophone and chamber music as an assistant to Marcus Weiss. He has won prizes at various competitions, including together with pianist Sayaka Sakurai at the Concours Léopold Bellan, Paris, at the Concours Nicati and from Migros-Kulturprozent. He has been a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2019.
Esther Sévérac completed her master's degree in solo performance and pedagogy with harpist Sarah O'Brien at the Basel Academy of Music. In addition to an extensive classical repertoire for the concert harp, folk, popular and contemporary music make up part of her solo repertoire. She also experiments with harp and electronics to create new music for her instrument.
