Download CV-Cécile Marti, Englisch 2016

Curriculum Vitae: Cécile Marti
Born in Zurich, Swiss composer Cécile Marti developed a great passion for music at an
early age thanks to the artistic environment within which she was raised. She learned how
to play the piano and violin at the tender age of eight and discovered a fascination for
contemporary music not long after. Cécile's first musical sketches began to appear while
studying violin in Zurich. She decided to do a postgraduate study in composition, which
led to a full-time study under the tutelage of Dieter Ammann at music school Lucerne. She
graduated in the summer of 2008. She reached the Master in Music with Major Solo
Performance Composition at music school Lucerne in 2010. She was working with
Hanspeter Kyburz, Georg Friedrich Haas, Malcolm Singer and Kaija Saariaho. Since
September 2012 she has been studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London with Julian Anderson at the degree course of a DMus.
In 2008 Cécile Marti won the International Composition Competition for Orchestra at the
9th Weimar Spring Contemporary Music Days. She received an invitation in 2008 to the
International Davos Festival "Young Artists in Concert". The awarded orchestral work
„bubble trip“ was performed with Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (LSO) conducted by
Kaspar Zehnder in KKL. The violin concert „AdoRatio“ was performed by Collegium
Novum Zürich with the soloist Bettina Boller conducted by Michael Wendeberg at the
Lucerne Festival 2010. Further performances followed at the Tonhalle Zürich Switzerland
and at the festival for contemporary music Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria. At the beginning
of 2012 her new orchestral work „wave trip“ was performed in Sondershausen and
Nordhausen, Germany. Her new piece for violin and piano, was performed at the festival
Musica Nova in Helsinki in 2015. Her most recent work, an orchestral cycle of seven
movements called “Seven Towers” of a duration of 80 minutes, was premiered in
Switzerland in April 2016. The opening piece of this large scale form cycle has already
been premiered in autumn 2015 by the Symphony Orchestra Berne/Switzerland. The sixth
piece had its premiere in late summer 2015 by the Geneva Camerata.
Cécile Marti was chosen to receive the Werkjahr Zürich given in 2011, a yearly stipend
granted by the city of Zürich. She was 2011/2012 an artist in residence in London for six
month supported by the Landis&Gyr Foundation. She received fellowships from the Albert
Koechlin-Stiftung in Lucerne and the Swiss National Foundation.