About

A Swiss-German cellist, Romana Kaiser was born in Zurich in 1990 and received her first cello lesson at the age of eight. Her extraordinary receptiveness and the natural relation to the cello had been early noticed by her first teachers Kurt Hess and Nancy Chumachenco. Romana has studied at Zurich University of the Arts and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, learning from Susanne Basler, Thomas Grossenbacher and Richard Lester. She holds a Master’s degree in Music Pedagogy as well as Music Performance. As a passionate and experienced chamber musician Romana gave her début at the Barbican Hall in London in January 2014 performing a sextet by contemporary British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. In June 2015 she was selected for the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's academy scheme and joined the orchestra on tour to the international Lucerne Festival. Currently Romana is based in Chicago and performs with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

Music

Cello Solo:
Bach: Suite for cello solo No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Casádo: Suite for cello solo
Carter: Figment
Halffter : Variations over the theme ESacheRe
Ligeti: Solo Sonata
Wilde : The Cellist of Sarajevo

Cello and piano Sonatas:
Barber Sonata Op. 6
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 69 and Op. 102 No. 1
Boccherini: Sonata No.2 and No. 3 (originally for 2 cellos)
Boellmann: Variations Symphoniques, Op. 23
Brahms: Sonata Op.38 and Op.99
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Hindemith: 3 easy pieces for cello and piano
Janáček: Pohadka (Fairy tale for cello and piano)
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 58
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
Schumann: 3 Fantasy pieces, Adagio and Allegro, 5 pieces in folk style
Shostakovich: Sonata Op. 40

Cello and piano pieces:
Bloch: Prayer
Bruch: Kol Nidrei
De Falla: Suite populaire espagnole
Dvorak: Silent Woods
Faure: Elegie and Romance
Ginastera: Pampeana No.2
Glazunov: Chant du Ménéstrel, Melody, Serenade espagnole
Hindemith: 3 easy pieces for cello and piano
Popper: Tarantella, Dance of the elves, Spinning Song, Polonaise, Hungarian Rhapsody, Gavotte, Happy recollections
Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango
Prokovief: Ballade Op.15
Saint-Saens: Allegro Appassionato, the Swan
Shostakovich: Adagio from Ballet Suite Op. 89
Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso, Nocturne, Valse sentimentale, Andante cantabile
Webern: 3 little pieces for cello and piano Op. 11
Vaughan-Williams: 6 Studies in English folk song

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