Noëlle-Anne Darbellay and Samuel Stoll's collaboration as an experimental music performance duo is spurred by their mutual interest in improvisation, conceptual performance, and the physical alteration of their instruments. They have been working together since 2008.
Besides developing and performing their own works, young and upcoming as well as established international composers such as Juliana Hodkinson (UK), Stephen Crowe (UK), Aleksander Gabrys (Poland), Jürg Wyttenbach (Switzerland), Manos Tsangaris (Germany), a.o. have composed music and written performance concepts especially and exclusively for the duo.
Their critically acclaimed performances have been shown at numerous places around Europe: at the Performance-Festival at Art Space Rondeel Maastricht and Berlin, Apiary Studios London, Theater am Gleis Winterthur and Dampfzentrale Bern, to name a few. The duo has also performed a series of 'interventions' at contemporary art venues (Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Kunstmuseum Thun and Kunstmuseum Solothurn).
Besides developing and performing their own works, young and upcoming as well as established international composers such as Juliana Hodkinson (UK), Stephen Crowe (UK), Aleksander Gabrys (Poland), Jürg Wyttenbach (Switzerland), Manos Tsangaris (Germany), a.o. have composed music and written performance concepts especially and exclusively for the duo.
Their critically acclaimed performances have been shown at numerous places around Europe: at the Performance-Festival at Art Space Rondeel Maastricht and Berlin, Apiary Studios London, Theater am Gleis Winterthur and Dampfzentrale Bern, to name a few. The duo has also performed a series of 'interventions' at contemporary art venues (Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Kunstmuseum Thun and Kunstmuseum Solothurn).
 | Noëlle-Anne Darbellay, violin
born in 1980, she studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (Netherlands) with Karen Turpie and at the Haute école de musique Genève under the guidance of Stefan Muhmenthaler, whom she now assists for the section of contemporary violin music. She received valuable insights from David Takeno, Felix Andrievsky, Bruno Canino, Siegfried Palm and for the baroque violin from Julia Schröder. As a soloist she has played at the Philharmonie Luxembourg with the Sinfonietta Luxembourg, at the Musiksommer Ernen, Festival l’art pour l’Aar Bern, Rencontres musicales de Champéry, ISCM World New Music Days, Music Documents Tokyo and the Festival International de musique Tibor Varga in Sion. She plays with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Chamber Aartists Orchestra (Chaarts). Noëlle-Anne Darbellay’s particular interest lies in contemporary music and music theatre. She has premiered numerous compositions for singing and reciting violinist. 2011 she received the recognition award by the music committee Bern. www.noelledarbellay.com |
Samuel Stoll, french horn
born in 1979, Samuel Stoll studied french horn and natural horn at the Musikhochschule Lucerne and the Hochschule der Künste Bern in the classes of Jakob Hefti and Thomas Müller. Since finishing his sutdies in experimental music theatre in the class of Georges Aperghis at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Samuel Stoll has worked as a freelance musician and performer. He plays with different new music ensembles across Europe (Klangforum Wien, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, MusikFabrik Köln, ensemble mosaik, Collegium Novum Zürich, ensemble adapter). He is a member of ensemble linea, ensemble tzara and the Institut für Transgradiales Theater ITT. He plays a microtonal french horn, which was developed and built by the Hochschule der Künste Bern and Konrad Burri. In 2011 he was an artist in residence in New York with a grant from the Kanton Bern. www.samuelstoll.com |  |
