Sonc, La Marca, Knight & Crawford-Phillips
Wednesday, 22. July 2026
7:30 p.m., Zweisimmen Church
Pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips invites three professors of the String Academy 2026 to join him on stage: the French violist Adrien La Marca, one of the outstanding players of his generation; the British cellist Josephine Knight, holder of the prestigious Alfredo Piatti Chair at London’s Royal Academy of Music; and the Slovenian violinist Tanja Sonc, a student of Igor Ozim in Salzburg and Nora Chastain in Zurich, and a member of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra since 2017. The result is a chamber-music celebration of the highest calibre, shining a spotlight on two great female composers of past centuries in particular: Fanny Mendelssohn, in an intimate musical dialogue with her beloved brother, and Nadia Boulanger, whose presence left a lasting mark on the early editions of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad.
Tanja Sonc, Violin
Adrien La Marca, Viola
Josephine Knight, Cello
Simon Crawford Phillips, Piano
| Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805–1847) | |
| “Dämmrung senkte sich von oben” (1843) | 3' |
| “Im Herbst” (1844) | 3' |
| “Harfners Lied” (1825) | 3' |
| Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) | |
| Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 (MWV Q 33) (1845) | 30' |
| Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) | |
| 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano (1914) | 9' |
| Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) | |
| Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15 (1879) | 30' |
| 80' | |