Valerio Benz

Producer of Swiss Radio SRF 2 Kultur. Born 1975 in Zurich, studied piano with Ursula Oelke in St. Gallen, then with the Landeskonservatorium Feldkirch with Ferenc Bognár. The harpsichord lessons with Günther Fetz increased his interest in historical performance practice. This is followed by studies in ancient music at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, majoring in Fortepiano with Edoardo Torbianelli and Geoffrey Lancaster, and in The Hague with Stanley Hoogland. He teaches since 1999 at the music school Unterrheintal (SG) piano.