Yaël + Stefan du Toit

Das Piano-Duo wurde 2018 von den beiden Pianisten und Eheleuten Yaël und Stefan du Toit aus Leidenschaft für die Duo-Literatur gegründet. Yaël und Stefan haben an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste studiert und mit einstimmiger Auszeichnung abgeschlossen.

Konzerte 2019 in Zürich, Cape Town, im Tessin und Burgund.

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Swiss pianist Yaël Anaïs du Toit and South African pianist Stefan du Toit both studied at the Zurich University of the Arts under Karl-Andreas Kolly, where they each received a master’s degree in music pedagogy with distinction. Yaël furthered her artistic training in Paris with Nicolas Stavy and in Zurich with Christoph Berner. Having grown up in a musical family in Zurich, Yaël regularly plays with musicians from the Zurich Opera. She has performed in the Tonhalle Zurich and worked with famous singers such as Regula Mühlemann during a series of opera features on Swiss television. Besides playing chamber music Yaël teaches piano at the Zurich Conservatory. She is also a keen composer and won Camerata Zurich’s youth competition when she was 18 years old.
Stefan completed a master’s in piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig under the tutelage of Christian A. Pohl. During this time he performed Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto in the Gewandhaus. Stefan won many competitions in South Africa as well as the International Youth Piano Competition in Fundão, Portugal. Stefan teaches piano at Gymnasium Unterstrass.