Sonia Wieder-Atherton
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In music, Sonia Wieder-Atherton seeks a language that speaks to the world. Her quest has taken her on a journey across repertories, from one discovery to another. Constantly exploring crisscrossing musical avenues, she moves boundaries and unravels the received wisdom in a relentless pursuit of meaning.
She was born in San Francisco of a mother of Romanian origin and an American father. She grew up in New York and then Paris, where she soon enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur, studying with Maurice Gendron. At 19 she crossed the Iron Curtain to live in Moscow, where she studied with Natalia Shakhovskaya at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her years there brought her a top-class education and left her a special, abiding relationship with time and history. Back in France, at 25, she won the Rostropovich Competition.
Sonia Wieder-Atherton works has developed an especially close relationship with a wide range of contemporary composers (Betsy Jolas, Pascal Dusapin, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Georges Aperghis, Wolfgang Rihm, Bernard Foccroule, and Edith Canat de Chizy. She performs as a soloist under the guidance of numerous conductors, notably with: the Paris Orchestra, the French National Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Liège Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonia, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg, the NDR Orchestra in Hanover, the REMIX Ensemble, Les Siècles, Asko/ Schönberg… and regularly performs chamber music with artists like Imogen Cooper, Elisabeth Leonskaïa, Raphaël Oleg, Alexander Paley, Bruno Fontaine and many others.
In 2020 tekende Sonia Wieder-Atherton een uitgeefpartnerschap met het label Alpha Classics. In 2011 ontving ze de prijs van de Bernheimstichting. In 2015 werd ze benoemd tot Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2018 trad ze op bij de officiële herbegraving van Simone Veil in het Panthéon in Parijs.
