Concert with the trioTRAIS

trioTRAIS
Laura Zangger, violin
Beat Sieber, Violoncello
Christian Fey, Piano


Program:
Ernest Bloch: Three Nocturnes (1924)
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op.49


Laura Zangger, violin
Laura Zangger plays very different styles: folk music – preferably as street music –, baroque music, then classical music or swing. Immersing yourself in these different worlds always gives momentum for the next musical collaborations and goals with the various formations such as the Quartettin, Orchestrina Chur, Mountain Rat Pack, trioTRAIS, NomolMusiK, and others. After receiving her primary teaching licence in Chur, Laura Zangger studied music in Zurich (ZHdK) and at the Lucerne University of Music. For many years she was principal and concertmaster in the Orchestra Giovane, where she was the soloist of the Mendelssohn Concerto in E minor in 2013. In 2010 she won the Romansh literary prize "Premi Term Bel". In class, she discovers music together with the children and finds it very exciting how each child is different and learns differently. Now she is the mother of 3 children and lives with her husband, Christian Fey, in Chur. Sometimes she is drawn to the Engadine, where she grew up.

Beat Sieber, Violoncello
Beat Sieber, who grew up in the cantons of Vaud and Aargau, studied violoncello at the Bernische Musikhochschule in the class of Conradin Brotbek and in the concert class of Patrick Demenga at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. During his studies, he was interested in contemporary music with live electronics or French chanson, for example, in parallel to classical cello playing. He organized concerts for his various formations and worked as a waiter in restaurants to finance his studies. After three years as a freelance musician, he was hired as an orchestral cellist with the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra in 2008 and lived for five years in the city with the world-famous Deutsches Eck, where the Rhine and Moselle rivers meet. He studied cultural management at the University of Zurich while working and commuted between Koblenz and Zurich by night train for two years. In 2013 he moved back to Switzerland - to Bern - and worked again as a cultural manager with the vocal ensemble ardent, the Bern Chamber Orchestra and for two years at the cultural office of the Burgergemeinde Bern. Since August 2019 he has been artistic director of the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden and has been playing in trioTRAIS with Laura Zangger and Christian Fey for two years.

Christian Fey, Piano
Christian Fey started playing the piano as a child and soon after made his debut with Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag at the Hôtel Weisshorn in St-Luc VS – spontaneously in hiking boots on an old piano in the hotel lobby. He then studied law anyway and works as a lawyer and notary. Nevertheless, music has never let go of him. During high school he began to compose and also wrote pieces for larger ensembles, e.g. a big band piece as a Matura thesis, two piano concertos and a violin concerto. Christian Fey plays classical and jazz, in ensembles, bands and also once as a soloist with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. During the Corona lockdown in spring 2020, he created a video diary, for which he recorded a piano piece every day and posted it on Facebook. This provided him and his digital circle of friends with welcome variety in this time of low concerts. Today he is happy to be able to perform live again - as a pianist in the trioTRAIS with Beat Sieber and his wife, Laura Zangger, or spontaneously at jazz jam sessions in the Postremise in Chur. Christian Fey grew up in Bern and lives in Chur with his wife, Laura Zangger and 3 children.