Eggert, Galaverna and Yang teach at the HKB
Starting in the fall semester of 2015, cellist David Eggert, bassoonist Daniele Galaverna and violinist Tianwa Yang will be teaching at Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
Born in Canada in 1985, cellist David Eggert studied in Boston, Montreal, Salzburg and Basel with Tanya Prochazka, Laurence Lesser, Matt Haimovitz, Clemens Hagen and Rainer Schmidt, among others. He is the successor to Louise Hopkins.
The Italian bassoonist, conductor and composer Daniele Galaverna takes over the teaching of Lyndon Watts. He studied at the Parma Conservatory and at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, where he graduated with highest honors as a soloist. From 1994 to 2004 he was principal bassoon with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He has been principal bassoon with the Musikkollegium Winterthur since 2005.
Born in China, Tianwa Yang was the world's youngest performer of Paganini's 24 Caprices at the age of thirteen and was considered the "pride of China" in her home country. She came to Germany on a DAAD special scholarship in 2003 at the age of sixteen. In 2014, she won the Echo Klassik Award for Young Artist 2014 and the German Record Critics' Award of the Year. She has been a lecturer at the Kassel Music Academy since 2012. In Bern, she succeeds Barbara Doll.
