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Susanne Sigg

Instrumental pedagogy with a focus on high strings

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s.sigg(at)doz.hfm-trossingen.de

Instrumental pedagogy with a focus on high strings

Vita

Susanne Sigg studied violin with a diploma and viola with an artistic degree at the State University of Music Trossingen with Prof. F. Agostini and Prof. J. Creitz until 2002. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Zurich University of the Arts with Prof. C. Schiller. She received formative artistic and pedagogical impulses from Prof. R. Glassl and Prof. R. Rampf, as well as from Prof. C. Schickedanz, Prof. E. Fischer, Prof. T. Riebel, Prof. H. Schlichtig and Prof. C. Flieder. As a guest musician she has played with the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra in Constance, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Neuss Music Academy and has also dedicated herself to early and contemporary music in sonata recitals. After holding positions at municipal music schools, Susanne Sigg took over the violin and viola class at Schule Schloss Salem in 1999 and has been the director and coordinator of the instrumental and chamber music department since 2009. In 2021, she also received a teaching license for school music lessons there.
Numerous pupils in her class have won prizes at national level in the Jugend musiziert competition, gone on to study music and work successfully as teachers and in leading orchestras.
In 2017, she was appointed as a lecturer in violin didactics at the Stella Vorarlberg Private University, and since 2023 she has also been a lecturer in the master's program for talent development.
Susanne Sigg works as a lecturer in teacher training for the Association of German Music Schools and the Vorarlberg Music School Association and has offered an annual master class at the International Music Days in Seefeld since 2018.