Hugo Bollschweiler
Viola

A native of Switzerland, Hugo Bollschweiler received his training at the Conservatoire de Fribourg, the Musikhochschule Basel (B.M., M.M.), the Peabody Institute of Music and the Zurich Musikhochschule. His teachers have included Roberto Diaz, Victoria Chiang, Michel Rouilly and Christoph Schiller. He has performed at the Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Lucerne, Davos, Les Arcs, Khumo, Montreux and Yellow Barn festivals. Mr. Bollschweiler was a first prize winner in the 2001 "Koeckert Viola Competition," the "VALIANT Competition 2000" and the 1993 International Chamber Music Festival Austra, recipient of the 1997 "Olga von Hartz Owens Memorial Prize in strings" from the Peabody Institute, and the 1998 Zurich Tonhalle Scholarship. He was a featured guest performer at BargeMusic, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the University of Vermont Lane Series, the Kennedy Center and the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington D.C. He has toured the U.S. as guest artist with both the Colorado and Coolidge String Quartets and as a member of Cecilia Bartoli's acclaimed "Opera proibita"-tour. Additionally, he has been playing, touring and recording with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Zurich Opera House Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Freiburger Barockorchester. He has also given the world premieres of solo viola works by renowned Swiss composers Rolf Urs Ringger, Daniel Hess and Bettina Skrzypczak.

He has played in principal positions with the Swiss National Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Fribourg, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Phiharmonique Suisse and the Orchestre de Chambre de Neuchatel.

Hugo Bollschweiler is a member of the Azmari String Quartet. He teaches and performs as Artist-in-Residence and professor of viola and chamber music at Northern Kentucky University and serves as artistic director of the Norse Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Bollschweiler's 2008/09 performance season began with concerts at Tanglewood, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival and the festival La Lanaudieres in Montreal with the Freiburger Barockorchester, two CD productions with Thomas Quasthoff and Gottfried von der Goltz and will include a European tour with acclaimed director Rene Jacobs later this year.

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