EVA BOESCH
Swiss cellist Eva Boesch is a fine chamber musician with a strong focus on contemporary music.
As a member of highly acclaimed Trio Catch, she is a regular guest in venues such as Philharmonie Luxembourg, Kölner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin as well as at international festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Présences, Eclat, Musica Strasbourg and Warsaw Autumn. Since 2009 she has been a member of Ensemble Garage, focussing on transdisciplinary projects, performance and music theatre. Eva Boesch participated in numerous world premieres and has closely worked with composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Sciarrino and Beat Furrer. She appears on several radio broadcasts and CD releases on the labels Bastille Musique, Col Legno, Wergo and Kairos.
Born in Zurich, she studied cello at the Zurich University of the Arts with Martina Schucan, at the Cologne University of Music with Maria Kliegel and at the Frankfurt University of Music with members of the Ensemble Modern. She received further important impulses at master classes with David Geringas, Jens-Peter Maintz, Miklós Perényi, Lucas Fels and Siegfried Palm. In the 2010/11 season she was a scholarship holder at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.
Eva Boesch has received several prizes and awards, including the Boris Pergamenschikow Prize for Chamber Music (Trio Onyx, 2011), Berenberg Culture Prize (Trio Catch, 2014), and the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Prize for Contemporary Chamber Music (Trio Catch, 2018).