ZHdK expands teaching staff
In the next academic year, which begins in September, three new main subject lecturers will take up their work at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK): Mika Väyrynen (accordion), Wies de Boevé (double bass) and Benjamin Forster (timpani).
Born in 1967, Mika Väyrynen studied at the Tampere Conservatory, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and at the Gustave Charpentier Conservatory in Paris with Max Bonnay. He specializes in the interpretation of classical and modern literature for accordion.
Wies de Boevé (born 1987) has won six international music competitions. De Boevé studied with Duncan McTier at the ZHdK, at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, with Božo Paradžik in Lucerne and with Matthew McDonald at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.
Born in 1979, Benjamin Forster is principal timpanist in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. He studied at the Munich Conservatory with Arnold Riedhammer and at the Munich Academy of Music in Peter Sadlo's master class and was a member of the Bavarian Orchestra Academy and percussionist in the Zurich Opera House Orchestra. Forster succeeds Rainer Seegers, ZHdK lecturer and principal timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, who is retiring.
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