Jürg Hanselmann

At the age of 17, he was a student of Albert Schneeberger and Kristina Steinegger at the Bern Conservatory, today's University of Music and Performing Arts.

[1] From 1983, he completed a three-year course in composition and analysis in Berne with Sándor Veress, who was a student of Zoltán Kodály and had studied piano with Béla Bartók.

His pianistic concert activities have taken Hanselmann to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Italy and several times to the USA.

CD recordings with piano duo works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger have been released on the Prezioso label.

In 2012, Hanselmann was awarded first prize in the composition competition of the Deutsche Oper Berlin within the chamber music series "Klang der Welt" for his work Ricercar for wind quintet.