JEAN - JACQUES DÜNKI
Pianist - Composer - Teacher - Researcher
Born in 1948 in Aarau (Switzerland). Studied at the Humanistic Gymnasium Aarau. First music studies in Basel. Further studies in Paris, London, Berlin, Baltimore and New York. Arnold Schoenberg Prize winner for piano in Rotterdam in 1981. Subsequently active internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. His repertoire focuses on early 20th century music. Intensive recording activity with over 400 radio broadcasts, 28 CDs, including premiere recordings of Berg, Reger, Schreker, Webern and Zemlinsky. In recent years, he has turned to the fortepiano and clavichord.
As a composer, essentially self-taught. Around 90 works, mainly for keyboard instruments, chamber music, chamber orchestra. Commissions from Paul Sacher, Musikkredit Basel-Stadt, Kuratorium Kanton Aargau, Präsidialabteilung Stadt Zürich, Pro Helvetia Foundation, Festival Amplitudes La Chaux-de-Fonds, Festival a tempo Caracas and others. Performances on four continents.
Piano instructor from 1981 to 1985 at the Alte Kantonsschule (Gymnasium) Aarau, 1984 to 2012 at the Music Academy Basel, Department of Higher Music Education. Regular fortepiano master classes, including at CNSM Paris since 2016.
His first book "Schönberg's Signs – Ways to Interpret His Piano Music" was published in 2005 by Lafite, Vienna and in Spanish by Monte Ávila, Caracas. The French version is in preparation. A new book publication "Schumann's Signs" is planned for 2018/19. Publications in several specialized journals and newspapers (dissonance, NZZ, SMZ and others). Organizer of several major symposia with accompanying programs, most recently in Basel 2010: Robert Schumann; 2011: Franz Liszt. Opening of Reicha Congress Sorbonne Paris 2013, Schoenberg Congress ASC Vienna 2014.
Album PV 102 / Jean-Jacques Dünki - POUR LE CLAVIER (2018)
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