Aida Stucki

Aida Stucki (19 February 1921, in Cairo – 9 June 2011) was a Swiss violinist and educator.

Aida Stucki
Background information
Born(1921-02-19)19 February 1921
Cairo
Died9 June 2011(2011-06-09) (aged 90)
Instrumentsviolin

Life

Aida Stucki studied with Ernst Wolters in Winterthur, Stefi Geyer in Zurich and Carl Flesch in Lucerne. She won the Geneva Competition in 1940, which opened doors to versatile concert activities under the most famous conductors all over Europe including Pina Pozzi, Walter Frey, Christoph Lieske, and Elly Ney.

Together with her husband, the First Concertmaster of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Zurich Giuseppe Piraccini, the principal violist Friedrich Hermann, later Gerhard Wieser and the solo cellist Walter Haefeli she founded in 1959, the Piraccini-Stucki String Quartet, which soon gained an international reputation.

As early as 1948 she began teaching in Winterthur, and in 1992, she joined the first violin master class of the former Winterthur Conservatory (today Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), where she worked until her resignation. Their most famous pupil is Anne-Sophie Mutter. Many musicians who today dominate international musical life emerged from the school.[1]

In 1975 she was awarded the prize of the Winterthur Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Foundation.

Awards
  • 1973: Stiftung Pro Arte Bern
  • 1975: Kunstpreis der Carl Heinrich Ernst Kunststiftung (Winterthur)
  • 1992: Kunstpreis der Gemeinde Zollikon aus der Dr. K. und H. Hintermeister-Gyger-Stiftung

Music

In 2008, the French independent record label Tahra released a CD with private material from Stucki. The disc, called L'Art de Aida Stucki, includes the Beethoven Violin Concerto, Op. 61 (recorded December 30, 1949, in Zurich), and the Bach Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (recorded in July 1953, with Walter Barylli as soloist). Both works were conducted by Hermann Scherchen. The Beethoven was accompanied by the Studio-Orchester of Beromünster, and the Bach was accompanied by the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera.

Literature
  • Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Hrsg.) «ZHdK» – Den Künsten eine Zukunft, Verlag Scheidegger und Spiess

References
  1. "Violinist and teacher Aida Stucki dies aged 90 - The Strad". The Strad. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
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