Gisela Egli-Zemp: Carl Orff Competition 2020 Es Buurebüebli man i nid

Gisela Egli-Zemp Resumé Gisela Egli-Zemp


1950 - born in Zurich


1955 - first piano lessons from my mother (at 5 years of age I could read music, but knew neither letters nor figures; that did not interest me; the school was there there for that)

 
1959 - ca. 1962 with neighbor Werner Deller (teacher and pianist)
 

1964 - 1966 organ with Luigi Favini, Zurich Conservatory

Recorder on the side, guitar self-taught.

1967 to 1969 - alto in the church choir Sacred Heart Zurich-Oerlikon.
At the same time I enjoyed practicing drawing and painting, design and handicrafts, composing, transcribing, arranging and transposing (at that time there were no computers and music programs) and inventing stories.
While raising my children, I was playing mainly Bach at home, often several hours a day.

1978 - moved to Trasadingen Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

1980 to 2000 - alto in the Schaffhauser madrigalist lead by Gisela Zweifel-Fehlmann

1984 to 1992 - sporadically temporary organizer at churches in Trasadingen, Wilchingen and Osterfingen.

1979 to 2014 - own private music school for piano, keyboard, recorder, accompanying and melodic guitar.

In between I practiced the violin for half a year because my father and my brothers were playing violin, viola and cello in an orchestra. I realized that I can do it even if I practiced at least half an hour daily. I refrained from this again because I was really a jack of all trades anyway.

One of my children, Florian Michael Benedict Egli, born 1982 in Trasadingen, studied jazz saxophone and composition at the College for Music and Theater in Zurich and received a degree with honors. He has his own groups and also plays in Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, upto now does tours in Japan, Russia, Berlin (in that order). He also gives saxophone lessons at cantonal music schools. He also plays piano, flute, clarinet and all kinds of saxophones.

My other children and grandchildren play piano and guitar as salon music.
My parents and grandparents were all passionate about music. Who did not play professionally, was an instructor and built her/his own violins, sang soprano in operettas or played salon music appreciatively and extensively.