Silvan Dezini & Ensemble Ostinato
Biography Silvan Dezini & Ensemble Ostinato
Silvan Dezini
The young Swiss violinist Silvan Dezini grew up in Spreitenbach and began playing the violin at the age of seven. He has won multiple first prizes with distinction at competitions, paving the way for numerous solo performances both in Switzerland and abroad, including with the Bavarian Philharmonic and the Franz Schmidt Chamber Orchestra. Dezini also looks back on several concerts alongside the renowned violinist Sebastian Bohren and has performed with the Aargau-based ensemble Chaarts. He has attended masterclasses with distinguished professors such as Igor Ozim, Ana Chumachenko, and Ingolf Turban.
After completing his bachelor’s degree in Classical Music at the Zurich University of the Arts under Andreas Janke, Dezini is now pursuing a master’s in Classical Music Pedagogy at the Bern Academy of the Arts, studying with Bartek Niziol. He performs on a violin crafted by the Milanese Grancino family of luthiers, sourced from a private Swiss collection. Dezini also serves as the artistic director of the Ostinato concert series in the canton of Aargau.
Fabian Müller
Müller’s (1964) works have been premiered by musicians such as David Zinman, Andris Nelsons, Christopher Hogwood, Steven Isserlis, Dame Evelyn Glennie, and Henning Kraggerud, and have been performed in renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Elbphilharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich, and Teatro Colón. He has written commissioned works for, among others, the Lucerne Festival, the Interlaken Music Festival, Cully Classique, and the Vestfold Festspillene.
His opera EIGER (2021/22) was enthusiastically acclaimed by audiences and critics. His family opera Heidi und das Weihnachtswunder (2022/23) also enjoyed great success. Recordings with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra document his extensive work. In 2024, he was nominated for the OPUS Klassik award in the “Composer of the Year” category. In 2016, he was awarded a “Swiss Music Prize”. In addition to composition and leading festivals (TWICF, Confluence Musikfest), he is also dedicated to folk music: he spent ten years working on the publication of the Hanny Christen Collection.
