Patrick Demenga

Cellist Patrick Demenga received his early training on the instrument at Switzerland's Bern Conservatory under the tutelage of Johannes B++hler -- winning the Tschumi Prize for the best solo diploma in 1983. Soon after, he became the main cellist with the City of Wintherthur Orchestra and the famous string quartet Neues Z++richer Quartett, appeared regularly at numerous European festivals, became the artistic director of the concert series Vier Jahreszeitsen in Blumstein, Switzerland, and was eventually asked (and accepted) to serve on the faculty of the Bern Conservatory. In ...