Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

Performers

viola

Lyda Chen

 

Born in Geneva, she began to study the violin at the age of 8. After having attended the Geneva Conservatory, where she was a pupil of Ayla Erduran, she moved to China, where she was enrolled in the course of Professor Lin Yao Ji at Beijing’s Central Conservatory. Back in Switzerland, she took a law degree at the University of Geneva in 1992. She later continued to study music, and specifically the viola, but thanks to her continuing interest in the violin she also experimented in jazz. In Switzerland, Lyda Chen often performs with the Interlude Trio, which is made up of flute, harp and viola and is especially involved in twentieth-century music. Since 1996 she has been playing a great deal of chamber music with her mother, Martha Argerich, and with instrumentalists from the Argerich circle; she has participated in the Festival Martha Argerich in Beppu since its start in 1998 and in the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano since 2002.

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