Laura Pöpplein has dedicated every free minute to playing the piano since she was 12 years old, is taught by Eleonora Em (Freienbach Music School and KSA)
and has won first prizes at cantonal, central Swiss and national competitions.
Laura is in the Talent Ausserschwyz program and the cantonal talent promotion program of the VMSZ, where she also takes conducting and music theory as a minor subject.
and music theory. She has also had the opportunity to conduct the SOKS and a renowned top-class wind orchestra as part of workshops.
She was a piano soloist twice with the SOKS and once with the Philharmonic Orchestra Budweis, Czech Republic (International Summer Academy Biel). She has also performed with the renowned Schwyz chamber music ensemble "Accento musicale" with "Carnaval des animaux" and accompanied the internationally renowned bass Bastian Thomas Kohl in a recital of Schubert's "Winterreise".
At the International Piano Academy and Competition "Pianale" in Fulda, Germany, Laura 2023 completed masterclasses with professors such as Elena Levit and Matti Raekallio and was one of two juniors to make it to the semi-finals! This was followed last summer by masterclasses with the famous pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja in the Austrian Horn and at the Vienna Masterclasses with Anna Malikova, with performances at the final concerts.
In mid-June 2024, she played her first solo recital in Leipzig, focusing on Romanticism (Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninoff), and a movement of the famous Grieg Piano Concerto at a summer festival in Saxony-Anhalt, before shining with Chopin "Andante spianato & Polonaise" at the 2nd Klassik am See in Lachen in August.
Symphony Orchestra Canton Schwyz
KLANGBRÜCKEN: From Grieg's Piano Concerto to the South American Danzón - Laura Pöpplein with the SOKS!
-Sunday, January 26, 2025, 6.30 pm, Rapperswil-Jona SG, Stadtsaal Kreuz Jona
-Saturday, February 1, 8 p.m., Schindellegi, Maihofsaal
-Sunday, February 2, 6.30 pm, Schwyz Mythenforum
Program:
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor op. 16 (1868)
Laura Pöpplein, piano
Jimmy López Bellido: América salvaje, for orchestra (2006)
Arturo Marquez: the famous Danzón No. 2 (1994)
Laura Pöpplein, musical direction
Musical direction: Urs Bamert and Laura Pöpplein
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
and has won first prizes at cantonal, central Swiss and national competitions.
Laura is in the Talent Ausserschwyz program and the cantonal talent promotion program of the VMSZ, where she also takes conducting and music theory as a minor subject.
and music theory. She has also had the opportunity to conduct the SOKS and a renowned top-class wind orchestra as part of workshops.
She was a piano soloist twice with the SOKS and once with the Philharmonic Orchestra Budweis, Czech Republic (International Summer Academy Biel). She has also performed with the renowned Schwyz chamber music ensemble "Accento musicale" with "Carnaval des animaux" and accompanied the internationally renowned bass Bastian Thomas Kohl in a recital of Schubert's "Winterreise".
At the International Piano Academy and Competition "Pianale" in Fulda, Germany, Laura 2023 completed masterclasses with professors such as Elena Levit and Matti Raekallio and was one of two juniors to make it to the semi-finals! This was followed last summer by masterclasses with the famous pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja in the Austrian Horn and at the Vienna Masterclasses with Anna Malikova, with performances at the final concerts.
In mid-June 2024, she played her first solo recital in Leipzig, focusing on Romanticism (Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninoff), and a movement of the famous Grieg Piano Concerto at a summer festival in Saxony-Anhalt, before shining with Chopin "Andante spianato & Polonaise" at the 2nd Klassik am See in Lachen in August.
Symphony Orchestra Canton Schwyz
KLANGBRÜCKEN: From Grieg's Piano Concerto to the South American Danzón - Laura Pöpplein with the SOKS!
-Sunday, January 26, 2025, 6.30 pm, Rapperswil-Jona SG, Stadtsaal Kreuz Jona
-Saturday, February 1, 8 p.m., Schindellegi, Maihofsaal
-Sunday, February 2, 6.30 pm, Schwyz Mythenforum
Program:
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor op. 16 (1868)
Laura Pöpplein, piano
Jimmy López Bellido: América salvaje, for orchestra (2006)
Arturo Marquez: the famous Danzón No. 2 (1994)
Laura Pöpplein, musical direction
Musical direction: Urs Bamert and Laura Pöpplein
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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