Simone Zgraggen
Simone Zgraggen is a Swiss violinist and professor at Freiburg University of Music.Career
Simone Zgraggen began playing the violin at the age of five. She studied from 1991 to 1994 at Lucerne University of Music under Alexander van Wijnkoop, from 1994 to 1995 at Basel Conservatory also under van Wijnkoop and from 1996 to 2002 at Karlsruhe University of Music under Ulf Hoelscher. She received all degrees with highest honors.
In 2012 she was appointed to a professorship for violin at Freiburg University of Music after having taught violin classes at Zurich Conservatory from 2001 to 2012 and violin methodology at Karlsruhe University of Music from 2001 to 2004.
Simone Zgraggen is concertmaster of the Basel Sinfonietta and holds the honorary presidency of the MythenForum Schwyz together with Vladimir Fedoseyev.Instrument
Simone Zgraggen plays the Stradivarius violin Golden Bell of 1686.
She uses bows made by Louis Henri Gillet, Alfred Lamy, Claude Thomassin and a baroque bow built by Carsten G. Löschmann.
