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 Born
in Winterthur in 1957, Ueli WIget received first piano lessons
from Klaus Wolters at the age of 10. From 1978 to 1983 he studied
piano and harp at the "Staatliche Hochschule für Musik
und Theater Hannover" under Hans Leygraf and Ruth Konhäuser,
finishing with the concert exam for both instruments.
From 1983 to 1986 he
gained further experiences at the Budapest Liszt Academy under György
Kurtàg and Zoltàn Kocsis. He won the first Swiss Young
Musicians Contest as well as the contest of the State Music High
Schools in Germany and received several international prices (contests
in Sydney, Monza, Leipzig).
Since 1986 he is a pianist
for the Ensemble Modern, getting in contact with a variety of different
tasks and styles; as a soloist he performed at the great European
Festivals (e.g. Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Venice, Rome, London,
Huddersfield, Paris) and collaborated with a large number of orchestras
(WDR Cologne, SWR Stuttgart, DSO Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Bundesjugendorchester,
NDR Hannover, BBC London, Philharmonique Radio France Paris, Gulbenkian
Lissabon, Nationalphilharmonie Budapest, Netherland Radio Philharmony,
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie). As a chamber musician he performs
in many varying formations and on a regular basis with the Vermeer
and the Carmina Quartet.
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