Musical season 2025

For this second season, we have imagined a programme that lets the audience discover many different works and musical formations. Internationally renowned performers – the Quatuor Sine Nomine, Tjasha Gafner (harp), Delphine Bardin (piano) and the duo Martin Egidi (cello) and Pau Fernandez Benloch (piano) – do us the honour and friendship of coming here to Fusio in the deep and wild Maggia Valley. 

Reserve your seats (and your rooms). This is going to be a memorable season!

Reservation recommended – info@villapineta.ch – 091 755 17 55

Programm

01.06.2025 – 11.15 am – 80′

QUATUOR SINE NOMINE

• Mendelssohn: Quartet in D major, op 41/1                                      
• Beethoven: Quartet No. 11 in F minor, op 95
• Karol Symanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C major

Price: CHF 40.- (aperitif after concert included) / for our guests CHF 30.-

QUATUOR SINE NOMINE

Founded in Lausanne, the Quatuor Sine Nomine is made up of Patrick Genet and François Gottraux, violins, Hans Egidi, viola, and Marc Jaermann, cello.

In 1985, it won first prize at the renowned Evian International Competition, and in 1987 it was also a prizewinner at the Borciani Competition in Reggio Emilia. Since then, Switzerland’s most famous string quartet (with a career spanning more than 40 years!) has performed in all the major cities of Europe and America, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

The Quatuor Sine Nomine has chosen to call itself ‘nameless’ to symbolise its desire to be at the service of all the composers and all the works it performs.

29.06.2025 – 11.15 am – 60′

TJASHA GAFNER, harp

• ‘Surprise concert’ – Tjasha Gafner will present the fruit of her work during her residency at Fusio!

Price: CHF 40.- (aperitif after concert included) / for our guests CHF 30.-

TJASHA GAFNER

Born in Switzerland in 1999, harpist Tjasha Gafner graduated from the Juilliard School in New York with a degree from Nancy Allen, after completing a Master’s degree in solo performance with Letizia Belmondo at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. In September 2023, Tjasha won 1st prize and the Audience Prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Münich, and was also named one of Germany’s 30 outstanding personalities under the age of 30 by the newspaper Die Zeit.

Since the age of 10, Tjasha has performed regularly in recital throughout Europe, in legendary venues such as the Tonhalle Zürich and the Vienna Konzerthaus. She is invited to perform as a soloist with orchestras such as the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Ensemble des Jeunes Virtuoses de New York, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the London Mozart Players. In 2023, she leaves for the Congo to play, teach and build instruments from waste.

20.09 – 21.09.2025

DELPHINE BARDIN, piano (Clara Haskil Prize 1997)

Franz Schubert – Vice Versa (concert series – 8 programmes)

Concert 1

• Franz Schubert, ‘12 Deutsche Tänze’, D 790
• Robert Schumann (1810-1856), ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ op 16
• Franz Schubert, Sonata in A major, D 959

Concert 2

• Franz Schubert, Sonata in A Minor, D 537
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), ‘Walzer‘ op 39 (Brahms’ version for 2 hands)
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Klavierstücke op 117
• Franz Schubert, 3 Klavierstücke, D 946

Price: CHF 40.- (aperitif after concert included) / for guests CHF 30.-

DELPHINE BARDIN

Pianist, composer and producer Gabriele Pezzoli, born in Locarno in 1973, will present an itinerary dedicated to original compositions, improvisations and pieces drawn from the rich repertoire of jazz standards. There will be some  particular references to great masters of the keyboard such as Thelonious Monk, Brad Mehldau, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett. An evocative and intimate dialogue with the instrument, the space and the audience.

04.10 – 05.10.2025

DUO MARTIN EGIDI / PAU FERNANDEZ BENLOCH

• The complete works for piano and cello by Ludwig van Beethoven

Price: CHF 40.- (aperitif after concert included) / for guests CHF 30.-

DUO MARTIN EGIDI / PAU FERNANDEZ BENLOCH

Born in Lausanne, Martin Egidi obtained a Bachelor’s degree with honours in Patrick Demenga’s class. In 2020 he obtained a Master’s degree from the Musik-Akademie Basel in the class of Danjulo Ishizaka, and also studied with internationally renowned musicians such as David Geringas, Marko Ylönen, Lionel Cottet, Gustav Rivinius and Stephan Forck. In 2019 he won the Migros Cultural Percentage and is part of the Migros Concert Placement.

In addition to his regular orchestral practice, he devotes much of his time to the contemporary repertoire, and studied baroque cello with Christophe Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has appeared with such baroque ensembles and orchestras as Il Pomo d’Oro, Arcangelo, the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, the Kammerorchester Basel and Arte Frizzante.

Born near Valencia in 1998 and based in Basel, Pau Fernández Benloch is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation. Since 2019, he has been co-director of Festival Ágora – L’Horta Nord, a young music festival focusing on chamber and contemporary music in Valencia. He has also taken part in masterclasses with teachers such as Robert Levin, Kirill Gerstein, Leonidas Kavakos, Thomas Adès, Andreas Staier, Steven Isserlis, Tamás Vásáry, Lilya Zilbernstein, Ralf Gothóni, Péter Nágy and Gabriela Montero.

He is currently studying historical keyboards and improvisation with Edoardo Torbianelli at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.