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NEWS:

SEBASTIAN RECENTLY BECAME A FELLOW AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA IN LONDON AFTER COMPLETING HIS ARTIST DIPLOMA. HE GIVES A LECTURE IN THE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT DEPARTEMENT.

SEBASTIAN RECENTLY STARTED TEACHING SONG ACCOMPANIMENT AT THE ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION.

SEBASTIAN SIGNED AS PIANIST-IN-RESIDENCE WITH CITY MUSIC FOUNDATION LONDON.

ANNA CAVALIERO AND SEBASTIAN ISSLER WON THE JEAN MEIKLE PRIZE FOR BEST DUO AT THE WIGMORE HALL INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION 2022.

SEBASTIAN RECEIVED THE 2022 PAUL HAMBURGER PRIZE FOR LIEDER FROM GRAHAM JOHNSON FOR HIS INTERPRETATION OF POULENC SONGS.

VITA

VITA

Sebastian Issler Pianist

Swiss Pianist Sebastian Issler received the Jean Meikle Prize for best Duo at the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition, together with British-Hungarian soprano Anna Cavaliero. He is the winner of the 2022 Paul Hamburger Prize for Lieder, finalist of several international competitions, including the International Schubert Competition Dortmund, and multiple prize winner of the Swiss Youth Music Competition.

Sebastian is the first pianist-in-residence at the City Music Foundation in London, which also acts as his management.

With his duo partners, Sebastian has performed at Milton Court Concert Hall, International Lied Festival Zeist, LIEDBasel Festival, Origen Festival Cultural, Liedrezital Zurich, Abbey Library of Saint Gall, Tonhalle Zurich, Barts Heritage Great Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and Wigmore Hall, among others. He also appears regularly as an accompanist in masterclasses with luminaries such as Brigitte Fassbaender and Thomas Hampson, and recently as a soloist with the Collegium Vocale Lenzburg in Switzerland.

In 2021, he recorded his unique programme ‘The World of Song’ for the Montreux Jazz Festival China at the Schubertiade Hall. ‘The World of Song’ was first broadcast in an immersive cinema in 360 Reality Audio at the festival in Hangzhou, China.

He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where he completed his Artist Diploma as a Guildhall Scholar working with Julius Drake and was a member of Graham Johnson's Song Guild. Prior to his studies in London, Sebastian completed two master's degrees, both with distinction, at the Zurich University of the Arts. He is a scholarship holder of Arosa Kultur and LIEDBasel.

Sebastian is influenced greatly by working with Robert Durso at the Golandsky Institute in New York which significantly changed his own playing and teaching style. He is based in Zurich and enjoys teaching, specialising in the Taubman Approach.

He is currently a fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he gives his lecture ‘Choreography of the Hands’ to piano master students in the piano accompaniment programme. Sebastian is a teacher for piano accompaniment at the Zurich University of Teacher Education and is a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

SCHEDULE

London Recital

with Maximilian Vogler

1 February 2023 - 7pm

London - Milton Court Concert Hall

Liszt Dante Sonata

Scriabin Octave Etude

Schubert and Schumann Songs

Liedrezital Zürich

with Anna Cavaliero

20 March 2023 - 7.30pm

Zurich - MKZ Grosser Saal

Schubert, Gurney, Poulenc, Korngold, Duparc, Britten, Howells, Hahn, Mendelssohn and Bartók Songs

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Livery Halls Performances CMF Series

with Jonathan Eyers

13 September 2023 - 1pm

London - Armourers' Hall

Finzi Earth and Air and Rain

Korngold Vier Lieder des Abschieds

Loewe Balladen

Kulturhaus Helferei

with Maximilian Vogler

7 February 2023 - 7.30pm

Zurich - Kapelle Kulturhaus Helferei

Liszt Dante Sonata

Scriabin Octave Etude

Schubert and Schumann Songs

 

Barts Great Hall CMF Series

with Anna Cavaliero

22 March 2023 - 1pm

London - Barts Great Hall

Schubert, Gurney, Poulenc, Korngold, Duparc, Britten, Howells, Hahn, Mendelssohn and Bartók Songs

Hombis Salon

with Maximilian Vogler

9 February 2023 - 7pm

Zurich - Hombis Salon

Schubert and Schumann Songs

St Martin-in-the-Fields

with Caroline Taylor

19 May 2023 - 1pm

London - St Martin-in-the-Fields

Reflection

Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Clarke, Liszt, and Strauss Songs

Berg Sieben frühe Lieder

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GALLERY

GALLERY

Schubert - Rastlose Liebe
01:18
Hahn - Nocturne
01:58
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