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The violinist, conductor and music mediator Meret Lüthi knows how to cast a musical and verbal spell over her fellow musicians and the audience. Since 2008, she has been shaping Les Passions de l'Âme with her unmistakable signature as concertmaster, artistic director and dramaturge. The international orchestra for early music is dedicated to the orchestral and chamber music repertoire from Monteverdi to Mendelssohn. The current focus is on the complete performance and video production of Beethoven's 9 symphonies. In addition to its own concert series in Bern, Les Passions de l'Âme has performed at the Lucerne Festival, the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Händel-Festspiele Halle, the Musikfest Stuttgart and with Monteverdi's «Vespers for the Blessed Virgin» at the Lucerne Theatre. Meret Lüthi performs with artists such as Dorothee Oberlinger, Simone Kermes, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Nuria Rial and Hana Blažíková.
In 2017 Meret Lüthi was awarded the Music Prize of the Canton of Bern and in 2020 the Culture Prize of the Bürgi-Willert Foundation. Her artistic work is documented on Sony Music Switzerland, cpo, Prospero and Ramée, and was awarded the Diapason d'or in 2013 and 2017, an OPUS KLASSIK and the Premio Abbiati in 2020 as well as the CHOC de l'Année by Classica in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the «Golden Bow» bestowed by the Foundation of the Swiss School of Violin Making in Brienz.
Meret Lüthi received her training with the violinists Karen Turpie, Monika Urbaniak-Lisik and Eva Zurbrügg and obtained both teaching and concert diplomas with distinctions. Her string quartet studies took her to Basel to Walter Levin, and she studied baroque violin with Anton Steck in Trossingen. She received conducting lessons from Titus Engel and Dominique Roggen.
As a sought-after specialist in early music, Meret Lüthi is a regular guest on Radio SRF 2 Kultur, Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2, Südwestrundfunk SWR 2 and Bayerischer Rundfunk BR. As a teacher, she gives masterclasses, coaches orchestras and teaches baroque violin, chamber music and historically informed performance practice at the Bern University of the Arts and as a guest lecturer at the music academies in Sion, Riga and Antwerp.
Mozart's «Magic Flute» at the Biel Solothurn Theatre will be her debut as opera conductor in 2025.
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