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Kaspar Zehnder

Kaspar Zehnder is a Swiss conductor and flutist. He studied classical languages at the Lyceum in Bern and music at the University of the Arts Bern. His music teachers included Heidi Indermühle, Ewald Körner, Agathe Rytz-Jaggi and Peter Streiff and Arthur Furer. He further took conducting master classes with Ralf Weikert, Werner-Andreas Albert and Horst Stein. He also studied chamber music and was a member of the Mozart European Academy, where his main mentor was Aurèle Nicolet. Zehnder gained his first conducting experience with the Kammerorchester Neufeld Bern and the Burgdorfer Kammerorchester. From 1997 to 2006, he was an associate professor at and conductor of the Orchestra of the Bern Academy of Arts, where he focused on contemporary music. Zehnder was chief conductor of the Prague Philharmonia from 2005 to 2008. He currently is the artistic director at the Murten Classics Festival. He is also music director at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the director of the Ensemble Paul Klee. Since 2014, he is the music director of the Symphoniy Orchester Biel Solothurn. From Wikipedia (

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Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1039: I. Adagio

Ana Oltean, Vital Julian Frey, Kaspar Zehnder, and Johann Sebastian Bach

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Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: I. Allegro con brio (Until Cadenza)

Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn

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Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: III. Rondo: Allegro scherzando (Cadenza by Ludwig van Beethoven)

Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn

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Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73, J. 114: III. Rondo (Allegretto)

Stephan Siegenthaler

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Gypsy Song, Op. 55, B. 104 (Arr. D. Ward for Mezzo-Soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 1, Ma piseu zas mi laskou zni

Magdalena Kožená, Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Yulia Deyneka, David Adorjan, Andrew Marriner, Kaspar Zehnder, and Antonín Dvořák

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Homeland

2024

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Beethoven Complete Piano Concerto

2020

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Joseph Lauber - Sinfonien Nr. 1 und 2 (World Premiere Recording)

2020

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Weiner - Klepper - Bloch - Schulhoff: Concertos

2013

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Uncommon Concertos

2024

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Mozart: Double concerti K. 365, K. 505 & K. Anh. 56/315f

2020

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Manuel de Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España: I. En el Generalife. Allegretto tranquillo e misterioso

EP • 2024

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Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato

EP • 2024