Musical highlights with exceptional talents
Tim Crawford, violin
Milena Umiglia-Marena, cello
Eylam Keshet, piano
They perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonin Dvořák.
Milena Umiglia-Marena was born into a musical family and received her first cello lessons from her mother. At the age of 10, she took lessons from Rafael Rosenfeld and studied with him until she graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Basel Music University in 2018. Since then, she has continued her studies with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts. She has received various prizes and awards at national and international competitions, such as the Murten Classics Cello Competition (2018), Schenk Soloist Competition (2021), Kiwanis Soloist Competition in Zurich (2023), Vienna Classical Music Academy (2023), 19th International Padova Music Competition (2023), Vienna New Year's Concert International Competition (2023), and Slava International Cello Competition (2023). She is a scholar of the Friedl Wald Foundation, the Aebi-Luthy Foundation, and the International Lyceum Club Zurich.
She attended masterclasses with renowned cellists such as David Geringas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Peter Bruns, Maximilian Hornung, and Reinhard Latzko, as well as chamber music teachers like Eberhardt Feltz and Robert Levin. She had the opportunity to play with chamber music partners such as Julia Fischer, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer, Dima Smirnov, Benjamin Engeli, and Fabio di Casola. She won a second prize at the Swiss Chamber Music Competition Orpheus as well as a first prize at the Kiwanis Chamber Music Competition in Zurich and was a finalist of the Young Credit Suisse Competition in 2022 with the string quartet Modulor.
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in 2021.
The pianist Eylam Keshet, who lives in Basel, performs in Europe and the USA as a soloist and chamber musician. His festival and series appearances include Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the International Music Festival Pau Casals, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the International Festival of Wissembourg, the Brandenburg Summer Concerts, the Fanny Davies International Piano Series, and the Morse Recital Hall at Yale University; other performance venues include the Burghof Lörrach, the Bielefeld Philharmonic, and Münster's Erbdrostenhof, as well as a fortepiano program in the Salon des Pianos Basel. His Naxos album Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 22 received a 10/10 review — “one of the jewels in Naxos” (ClassicsToday).
As a dedicated chamber musician, Keshet performs with leading colleagues, including clarinetist Jonathan Leibovitz. As a soloist, he has performed with the Kammerorchester Basel, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Rishon LeZion Symphony Orchestra, and the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra. Previously, he was an assistant to Prof. Anton Kernjak at the Basel Hochschule für Musik. His most significant studies were under Asaf Zohar (Tel Aviv University), Hung-Kuan Chen (Yale University), and Claudio Martínez Mehner (Musik-Akademie Basel); he studied fortepiano at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Edoardo Torbianelli. Keshet also gives masterclasses, including at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester.
Born into a family of violinists, Tim Crawford’s early musical life was shaped by both the violin and his years as a choir singer. Today, he is an internationally celebrated violinist, living between London and Denmark and known for his versatility and collaborative artistry.
Tim divides his time among several leading ensembles: the Teyber Trio, the Valo Quartet, the Ensemble Zeitgeist, and as a leader of the Danish chamber collective, the Esbjerg Ensemble. In addition to these engagements, he is active internationally as a guest artist. Recent highlights include chamber music collaborations with Anthony Marwood, Emmanuel Pahud, Nicolas Altstaedt, Lawrence Power, Jeremy Denk, Mark Padmore, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Beatrice Rana, Maria Włoszczowska, and Timothy Ridout. His performances have taken him to renowned festivals such as the Hindsgavl Festival (Denmark), the Music Village Ernen (Switzerland), the Resonances Festival (Belgium), the Lockenhaus Festival (Austria), and IMS Prussia Cove (Cornwall).
He plays a Ferdinand Gagliano from around 1770.
Meeting point
Door opening / Box office: 3:00 PM
Concert start: 4:00 PM (Duration approx. 60 min.)
Baroque Hall, Engelberg Monastery
Remarks
Wheelchair spaces on request, limited
Current information
The tickets will be sent by prior Mail. For bookings made after 21 December, tickets will no longer be sent by post, but can be collected from the Tourist Information, Hinterdorfstrasse 1, until 2.30 pm on 25 December. After that, the tickets will be deposited at the box office in the monastery.
Tim Crawford, violin
Milena Umiglia-Marena, cello
Eylam Keshet, piano
They perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonin Dvořák.
Milena Umiglia-Marena was born into a musical family and received her first cello lessons from her mother. At the age of 10, she took lessons from Rafael Rosenfeld and studied with him until she graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Basel Music University in 2018. Since then, she has continued her studies with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts. She has received various prizes and awards at national and international competitions, such as the Murten Classics Cello Competition (2018), Schenk Soloist Competition (2021), Kiwanis Soloist Competition in Zurich (2023), Vienna Classical Music Academy (2023), 19th International Padova Music Competition (2023), Vienna New Year's Concert International Competition (2023), and Slava International Cello Competition (2023). She is a scholar of the Friedl Wald Foundation, the Aebi-Luthy Foundation, and the International Lyceum Club Zurich.
She attended masterclasses with renowned cellists such as David Geringas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Peter Bruns, Maximilian Hornung, and Reinhard Latzko, as well as chamber music teachers like Eberhardt Feltz and Robert Levin. She had the opportunity to play with chamber music partners such as Julia Fischer, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer, Dima Smirnov, Benjamin Engeli, and Fabio di Casola. She won a second prize at the Swiss Chamber Music Competition Orpheus as well as a first prize at the Kiwanis Chamber Music Competition in Zurich and was a finalist of the Young Credit Suisse Competition in 2022 with the string quartet Modulor.
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in 2021.
The pianist Eylam Keshet, who lives in Basel, performs in Europe and the USA as a soloist and chamber musician. His festival and series appearances include Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the International Music Festival Pau Casals, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the International Festival of Wissembourg, the Brandenburg Summer Concerts, the Fanny Davies International Piano Series, and the Morse Recital Hall at Yale University; other performance venues include the Burghof Lörrach, the Bielefeld Philharmonic, and Münster's Erbdrostenhof, as well as a fortepiano program in the Salon des Pianos Basel. His Naxos album Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 22 received a 10/10 review — “one of the jewels in Naxos” (ClassicsToday).
As a dedicated chamber musician, Keshet performs with leading colleagues, including clarinetist Jonathan Leibovitz. As a soloist, he has performed with the Kammerorchester Basel, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Rishon LeZion Symphony Orchestra, and the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra. Previously, he was an assistant to Prof. Anton Kernjak at the Basel Hochschule für Musik. His most significant studies were under Asaf Zohar (Tel Aviv University), Hung-Kuan Chen (Yale University), and Claudio Martínez Mehner (Musik-Akademie Basel); he studied fortepiano at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Edoardo Torbianelli. Keshet also gives masterclasses, including at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester.
Born into a family of violinists, Tim Crawford’s early musical life was shaped by both the violin and his years as a choir singer. Today, he is an internationally celebrated violinist, living between London and Denmark and known for his versatility and collaborative artistry.
Tim divides his time among several leading ensembles: the Teyber Trio, the Valo Quartet, the Ensemble Zeitgeist, and as a leader of the Danish chamber collective, the Esbjerg Ensemble. In addition to these engagements, he is active internationally as a guest artist. Recent highlights include chamber music collaborations with Anthony Marwood, Emmanuel Pahud, Nicolas Altstaedt, Lawrence Power, Jeremy Denk, Mark Padmore, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Beatrice Rana, Maria Włoszczowska, and Timothy Ridout. His performances have taken him to renowned festivals such as the Hindsgavl Festival (Denmark), the Music Village Ernen (Switzerland), the Resonances Festival (Belgium), the Lockenhaus Festival (Austria), and IMS Prussia Cove (Cornwall).
He plays a Ferdinand Gagliano from around 1770.
Meeting point
Door opening / Box office: 3:00 PM
Concert start: 4:00 PM (Duration approx. 60 min.)
Baroque Hall, Engelberg Monastery
Remarks
Wheelchair spaces on request, limited
Current information
The tickets will be sent by prior Mail. For bookings made after 21 December, tickets will no longer be sent by post, but can be collected from the Tourist Information, Hinterdorfstrasse 1, until 2.30 pm on 25 December. After that, the tickets will be deposited at the box office in the monastery.
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Price info
Admission prices adults / CHF 50.-
Local residents / CHF 40.-
Apprentices and students (16-25 yrs. with ID) / CHF 20.-
Young people under 16: free of charge
Local residents / CHF 40.-
Apprentices and students (16-25 yrs. with ID) / CHF 20.-
Young people under 16: free of charge
Contact person
Benediktinerkloster 1 6390 Engellberg
Benediktinerkloster 1
6390 Engelberg
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