Zollikon honors Matthias Ziegler
The flautist and ZHdK lecturer Matthias Ziegler receives the Zolliker Art Prize, endowed with 10,000 francs. The sponsorship prize goes to violinist Julia Schuller.
According to the Dr. K. & H. Hintermeister-Gyger Foundation, Zurich musician Matthias Ziegler, born in 1955, is considered one of the most versatile and innovative flutists of his generation and is equally committed to traditional literature as well as to contemporary composed and improvised music. In his search for new sounds, he has expanded the expressive potential of the traditional flute and the electro-acoustic flute.
Renowned composers such as Michael Jarrell, George Gruntz and Matthias Rüegg have also written flute concertos for Matthias Ziegler. Concert tours have taken him to the USA, Japan, Australia, South America and Israel. Numerous CD recordings document his wide-ranging interests. Matthias Ziegler is also a professor of flute and improvisation at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Julia Schuller, a Zurich violinist born in 1998, receives the 5000 Swiss franc prize. She studied at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich (MKZ) in Jens Lohmann's violin class and at the MKZ PreCollege. Since 2019, she has been studying with Mi-Kyung Lee at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Julia Schuller has already won first prize in the final of the Swiss Youth Music Competition three times in a row.
