Ilva Eigus
Rezital
Saturday, 22. August 2026
10:30 a.m., Gstaad Chapel
Born in Zurich in 2007 to a Latvian mathematician and a Swiss jazz musician – the outstanding pianist Nik Bärtsch – Ilva Eigus is an extraordinary talent shaped by the incomparable school of Zakhar Bron. Ilva Eigus returns to Gstaad with a programme devoted to two composers who drew profound inspiration from the unique Swiss landscape: Johannes Brahms, represented by his celebrated “Thun Sonata”, and Tchaikovsky, who might never have completed his Violin Concerto without the invigorating – and soothing – atmosphere of Clarens near Montreux, on the eastern shore of Lake Geneva.
Ilva Eigus, Violin
Richard Octaviano Kogima, Piano
| Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) | |
| Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 “Thun” | 20' |
| Robert Schumann (1810–1856) | |
| Fantasiestücke for Violin and Piano, Op. 73 (1849) | 10' |
| Igor Strawinsky (1882–1971) | |
| Divertimento from the ballet “The Fairy's Kiss” (arr. for violin and piano by Samuel Dushkin) (1932) | 20' |
| Peter Tschaikowsky (1840–1893) | |
| Sérénade mélancolique for Violin and Piano in B-flat Minor, Op. 26 (1875) | 10' |
| Valse-Scherzo for Violin and Piano in C Major, Op. 34 (1877) | 5' |
| 70' | |