On the death of Susanne Huber-Bitter
The flautist Susanne Huber-Bitter died on June 28 at the age of 84.
A highly educated and warm-hearted musician with an incredibly broad horizon, the flautist Susanne Huber-Bitter, passed away on June 28, 2017. As the child of an artistically and academically active family, she fled Berlin in the middle of the Second World War, grew up in Blonay (VD), went to grammar school in Lausanne and completed her flute studies with André Jaunet in Zurich. After further years of study and travel, she moved to Reigoldswil (BL) at the beginning of the 1960s. She was devoted to her husband, the composer Klaus Huber, for the rest of her life. She became his interpreter of world premieres, often alongside Aurèle Nicolet. A CD with flute works by Klaus Huber, released by Egidius Streiff in 2014, is testimony to her creative artistry and her haunting sound. The Swiss Music Newspaper on September 9, 2015 in a Review reported on this. We will remember Susanne Huber-Bitter as a "musicienne complète" and commemorate a personality who was always ready to help family, friends and pupils and who knew how to combine music, social commitment and people in an outstanding way.
