Ronny Spiegel
Ronny Spiegel was born in 1982 in Winterthur and received his first violin lessons at the age of six from his grandmother Katharina Hardy. In 1993 he became a student of Natascha Boyarskaya at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Great Britain. Master classes with Yehudi Menuhin, Tibor Varga, Erich Höbarth, Mauricio Fuks, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Sandra Goldberg and Isaac Malkin shaped his training.
In 2009 Ronny Spiegel completed his studies at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne with Gyulla Stuller. Even during his studies, his interest was not limited to classical music. Constantly discovering new things in order to draw inspiration from them has remained his musical credo to this day.
As a freelance musician, Ronny Spiegel is known across a variety of genres. His long-standing projects include the Balkan Quartet musique en route, the Kaleidoscope String Quartet and the piano quartet s-ensemble, with whom he performs numerous concerts at home and abroad – for example at the Lucerne Festival, the Boswiler Sommer, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Al Bustan Festival Lebanon, the Cairo Jazz Festival, the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Brussels Chamber Music Festival, the MISA Festival Shanghai and the Rc4 Festival Rio de Janeiro. With these ensembles he has recorded several CDs and LPs.
As a guest concertmaster he has appeared with the Camerata Schweiz, the Basel Sinfonietta, the Collegium Basel and the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester. Further ensembles with which Ronny Spiegel has performed include the La Folia Barockorchester, the Swiss Chamber Soloists, CHAARTS, Geneva Camerata, Orchestra La Scintilla and the Festival Strings Lucerne.
In 2024 Ronny Spiegel founded the Duo Eclat together with Berlin-based pianist Luisa Sereina Splett, whose first programme is dedicated to female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alongside his musical activities, Ronny Spiegel has been a board member of OMANUT, Forum for Jewish Art and Culture, since 2013, where he shares responsibility for the music portfolio.