biography
J. Suk: piano quartet in a-minor, op. 1, 1st mov.
Trio Bohémo & Eveline Meier – viola
F. Schubert: Arpeggione sonata in a-minor, D. 821 (version for viola and piano)
Eveline Meier - viola, Zsuzsanna Homor - piano
L.v. Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano op. 47 no. 9 «Kreutzer», 3rd mov.
Duo Admiral: Eveline Meier – violin, Riho Noma – piano
Sándor Balassa: Trió op.148Márta Ábrahám - violin, Eveline Meier - viola, György Schweigert - cello
Eveline Meier was born in Switzerland and lives in Budapest (Hungary) and Horw, near Lucerne (Switzerland).
At the age of six she started with playing the violin at local music schools. She then changed to private lessons with the violin teacher András Santora who helped her to improve upon her musical techniques and forms of musical expression. Later on she went for two years to the Lucerne University of Applied Arts (Music), where she studied with Isabelle van Keulen while taking a preperatory course for her Bachelor Studies.
Since September 2015 Eveline has been studying violin at the Franz Liszt Academy (LFZE) in Budapest with Prof. Márta Ábrahám as well as viola as a second instrument with Prof. Ágnes Nagy. In Budapest she plays regularly with the Ábrahám Consort Orchestra.
In June 2018 she received her degree in «Bachelor of Arts in Performance specialized in Violin». In 2020 she acquired her master degree in violin with summa cum laude at the Franz Liszt Academy Budapest. In 2020/21 she decided to take up double studies at the LFZE in Budapest, one, a master in viola with Péter Bársony as well as postgradual studies in chamber music with violin together with her long time Duo partner the pianist Riho Noma under the guidance of her professors Gábor Csalog and András Szalai. In June 2021 she took her graduation in both study fields with highest honours. Her studies were primarily in the Hungarian language.
Eveline Meier has won several prizes at national competitions in the disciplines solo performance and chamber music. With her piano trio she has won 1st prizes regularly and also was awarded with two special prizes, one of which allowed her to play in a concert at the „Festival für Kammermusik Bodensee“ in Switzerland.
In 2011 she entered the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SJSO) where she was the youngest player for two years. The orchestra tours led her until June 2015 through the biggest concert halls in Switzerland.
In February 2016 she was chosen to play at the international exchange project with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD) which was attended by important politicians of Israel and Hungary. There she played in the position of the concertmaster. A year later she was invited to go to Jerusalem, where she could practise and perform chamber music pieces with students and teachers of both academies.
Sofar she has played for several foreign embassies and consulates, such as the japanese, the israeli and the polish and for the president of Hungary, János Áder, and the polish president, Andrzej Duda, as well as other important dignitaries.
In January 2017 Eveline was awarded with the „Kulturförderpreis Horw“. This exceptional prize gave her the opportunity to give concerts in Horw, Willisau, Lucerne and Budapest in June 2017 with her piano trio «JET» founded at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. These concerts were held under the motto “music connects ones home with the world“.
She is one of the few students of the Franz Liszt Academy which have been awarded with a scholarship of the Bank of China in 2018/2019.
She is one of the few students of the Franz Liszt Academy which have been awarded with a scholarship of the Bank of China in 2018/2019.
During the corona lockdown in April 2020, Eveline won the first prize in a two week competition for orchestral parts.
Since August 2012 she has been an active participant at masterclasses with Zakhar Bron in Interlaken and Zürich. Furthermore she participated in masterclasses and took lessons with Isabelle van Keulen (both violin and viola), Maurizio Sciaretta, Jitka Hosprová (viola) and also in Budapest with Kristóf Baráti, Giovanni Guzzo, Dora Schwarzberg, Pierre Amoyal, Hagai Shaham, Alexandre Dubach, György Pauk, Guy Ben-Ziony, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Hartmut Rohde and Ingolf Turban.
In the Ábrahám Quartett, which has been founded in 2021, Eveline plays the viola.
From February 2022 Eveline will be a member of the orchestra academy with viola at the ORF Radio-Symphony-Orchestra in Vienna.