Nicolas Corti ist viola soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and professor of viola (major and minor) at "Zurich University of the Arts".

Biographie

Nicolas Corti studied viola at the Zurich Conservatory with his father Ottavio Corti. This was followed by an intensive study period with Emanuel Vardi in Manhattan N.Y.C. (former principal violist under Toscanini in the NBC Orchestra).

In 1976 he joined the Zurich Tonhalle and Opera House Orchestra and was a member of the Collegium Musicum Zurich under Paul Sacher for 15 years.

In 1982 he founded the Amati Quartet, with which he played countless international concerts until 2010 and produced around 30 CD productions, some of them award-winning.

From 1996-2023 he held a professorship for viola and chamber music at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK and from 2005-2021 he was solo violist in the Musikkollegium Winterthur.

Chamber music and the combination of classical and folk music are his passions, for example in his New Year's concerts in his adopted hometown of Toggenburg (with Nadja Räss, Töbi Tobler, Claudia Muff, among others). He plays in various formations: duo with guitar (with Han Jonkers, CD production with Spanish music and Piazzolla), duo with piano (among others with Michiko Tsuda and Edith Fischer), string trio (with Noémi Schindler and Christophe Roy, among others). Music festivals in Cluny, Blonay and Alvaneu) and duo with Franziskus Abgottspon (text and music).

Further details at www.nicolascorti.ch.

 As soloist he plays with different orchestras.

Here you find a choice of his solo repertoire for viola:

J.S.Bach                                                     Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr.6
J.Chr. Bach                                                C-Moll
Bela Bartok                                               Violakonzert
G. Benda                                                    F-Dur
M. Bruch                                                    Romanze
                                                                   Kol Nidrei
                                                                   Doppelkonzert für Klarinette und Vla
H. Berlioz                                                   Harold in
D. v. Dittersdorf                                         Concertante für Viola, Kontrabass und Orchester
David Gyula                                               Es-Dur
Dvorak                                                        Rondo
J. Haydn                                                     D-Dur op. 101 (orig. Vc)
M. Haydn                                                    C-Dur für Viola, Orgelund Orch.
P. Hindemith                                              Trauermusik
P. Hindemith                                               Schwanendreher
F.A. Hoffmeister.                                        Violakonzert D-Dur
G. Holst                                                       Lyric Movement
J. N. Hummel                                              Fantaisie

A. H. Lilienthal Konzert Nr.2 für Bratsche und Orchester (N. Corti dedicated)
F. Martin                                                      Ballade
B. Martinu                                                    Rhapsody Concerto
Mozart W.A.                                                Cocertante Symphonie, Violine und Viola
P. Müller                                                      op. 24 f-moll
N. Paganini                                                  Sonata per la gran Viola und Orch
B. Pigovat                                                    Requiem „The Holocaust“
J. Reicha                                                      Violakonzert Es-Dur
A.Rolla                                                         Concertino in Es-Dur
M. Rosza                                                      Violakonzert
L. Smit                                                          Violakonzert (1940)
K. Stamitz                                                    Violakonzert D-Dur
G. P. Telemann                                           Violakonzert G-Dur
Vanhall                                                        Concerto
A. Vivaldi                                                     e-moll Konzert
                                                                     Viola d'amore Konzert für Viola G-Dur  
W. Walton                                                   Konzert
A. Wranitzky                                                Konzert C-Dur für 2 Violen und Orchester
C.M. von Weber                                          Andante und Rondo ungarese
V. Williams                                                   Suite
K. Zelter                                                        Es-Dur

und andere...