Marie-Louise Dähler is a Swiss harpsichordist. As such, she is a basso continuo player, chamber music partner and soloist with a focus on improvisation.^[1]

Life

Dähler grew up in Bern^[1] in a family of musicians. She began playing the harpsichord at the age of five.^[2] She studied pedagogy at the LehrerInnenseminar Muristalden in Bern, and harpsichord with her father, Jörg Ewald Dähler, at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, graduating with a diploma as a harpsichord pedagogue.^[1] She studied further at the Musikakademie St. Gallen,^[1] and with Johann Sonnleitner^[2] at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, graduating with a concert diploma.^[1] She passed her diplomas with distinction.^[2] Together with Wolfgang Schulz, solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic, she recorded Bach's flute sonatas.^[2]

Since 1999, she has collaborated with the Swiss violinist Paul Giger. She performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. She has also worked as a music teacher, in St. Gallen from 2004.^[1]

Recordings

• Changements, Rudolf Kelterborn, München / Col-Legno 1995^[1]
• Towards Silence, with Paul Giger, ECM-Records-Verlag, Gräfelfing / Universal Music, Berlin 2007^[3][4]

References

External links

• Literature by and about Marie-Louise Dähler in the German National Library catalogue
• Marie-Louise Dähler at AllMusic
• Marie-Louise Dähler discography at Discogs

Marie-Louise Dähler on Webarchiv

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