Pianist LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL-WANG won First Prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was presented by the Young Concert Artists Series in his New York debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, sponsored by the Peter Marino Debut Prize, and his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.  His busy 2009-10 season includes recital performances at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts (WA), Missouri State University, and in the Brownville Concert Series (NE).  Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang will appear at the Festival Art et Musique du Cinqle in Geneva, with the Septembre Musical Montreux-Vevey and with the Festival des Jardins Musicaux, and performs Mendelssohn’s Concerto No. 2 with the Vienna Symphony in Vienna at the Musikverein Hall, and Ravel’s Concerto in G with the Zurich Symphony Orchestra.  

Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang has been honored with the Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concerts in 2008, organized by the Embassy of Switzerland in collaboration with the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain.  He was presented in recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, and in Manchester, Edinburgh, Scotland and Cardiff, Wales.  At the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2007, Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang was awarded the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, and concert engagements through the Brownville Concert Series Prize (NE), the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Prize (NC), the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Prize (IL), the Princeton University Concerts Prize, the Usedom Music Festival Prize (Germany), and the Vancouver Recital Society Prize (Canada).  Previously, Mr. Schwitzgebel-Wang won First Prize in the 2006 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig’s Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 

In 2005 Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang was the top prizewinner in the Geneva International Piano Competition, where he was also awarded the Audience Prize and the “Coup de Coeur Breguet” Prize, which sponsored the recording of his first disc.  In 2004, Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang toured China with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. He performed with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, and played Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Eastbourne through the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang gave his first performances at the age of nine.  At 12, he represented Switzerland in the 9th Steinway Festival in Hamburg and at 15 won First Prize, the Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Swiss work, and the Paderewski Prize in the Swiss Youth Music Competition.  Born in 1987 in Geneva, Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang began his piano studies at the age of six with Franz Josefovski.  Three years later, he entered the Lausanne Conservatory, as a student of Brigitte Meyer, and earned a "Soloist's Diploma" at the age of 15.  He currently works with Pascal Devoyon at the Universität der Künst in Berlin.  His mother, who is Chinese, and his father, who is Swiss, are both visual artists.

[Pronounced: Louie SHVITZ-gable Wong]

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