tagged w/ Alpenhorn
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From her bio: By the time she was five years old, Eliana Burki knew that she wanted to be a professional musician. Born into a musical family in Switzerland, Eliana was expected to take piano lessons. Her mother, a piano teacher, was amazed when the young girl expressed her independent spirit very strongly: “No, thank you, Mom, I’ve decided to play the Swiss alphorn.”
And play it she did. At the age of nine, she was giving her first concerts, enchanting audiences with her traditional Alphorn style and winning many awards. Within a few years she was attending the prestigious music conservatory in the Swiss capital of Bern, and then later studying at the Jazz College in Basel. As a teenager, she played mostly classical music, appearing as a guest soloist with various chamber groups and philharmonic orchestras all over Europe, where she played Alphorn music by such diverse composers as Leopold Mozart, Jean Daetwyler, Kaspar Ewald and Daniel Schnyder.
Mike's thoughts: Wow, This girl is packin' some serious horn! She has the cajones to back it up though. I never knew you could do much more with an Alpenhorn than honk out one or two notes but Eliana has taken it to a whole new level.
Currently on tour from Cairo to Europe her press says that she blows audiences away wherever she goes and I can believe it. She needs to spend some time in New Orleans :-)From her bio: By the time she was five years old, Eliana Burki knew that she wanted to... more
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