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17. Rest and Unrest: Frank Martin, Alma Mahler, and More!
Join us to explore rest! From the nostalgia of untouchable love in Antognini’s Come to Me, we will move to the first part of Martin’s Songs of Ariel, reflecting the unrest of Shakespeare’s spirit. Afterwards, Burkhard’s piece is mankind’s plea for rest. In response, rest comes from Andriessen, calming a lover’s longing.
Sandwiched between the next two Songs of Ariel, Mahler reflects the timeless rest of love. And finally, the perfect Rest by Vaughan Williams: “Until the morning of Eternity, Her rest shall not begin nor end, but be; And when she wakes, she will not think it long.”
Cyrille Nanchen
Cyrille Nanchen (he/him) is a Swiss choral conductor based in Stockholm. Internationally active as both a guest conductor and chorus master, he works with leading ensembles across Europe. Since 2025, he has served as guest conductor of the professional vocal ensemble Musicatreize in Marseille. Recent and forthcoming collaborations include tours and concerts with Cappella Amsterdam, the Vlaams Radiokoor, the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, the DR KoncertKoret, and others.
As chorus master at the Verbier Festival since 2022, Cyrille Nanchen has prepared the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble alongside Hansruedi Kaempfen, and has worked with conductors including Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, James Gaffigan, and Lahav Shani. Nanchen has acted as assistant to Klaas-Jan de Groot at the Essen Opera and Daniel Reuss with Cappella Amsterdam.
In 2025, he won first prize at the Aegis Carminis International Competition, and has received grants from prestigious programmes and organisations, including Forum Dirigieren, Académie Itinérante, the Madeleine Dubuis Foundation, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Nanchen studied choral conducting in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Zurich with Fredrik Malmberg, Daniel Reuss, Benjamin Goodson, Markus Utz and Beat Schäfer. He further specialised through academies with the Swedish Radio Choir, the Stockholm Opera Choir, the WDR Rundfunkchor, and many others.
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Age
No limit
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Chorus Type
Mixed
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Lenght
5 days
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Level
C - choir and singers who audition and come prepared (need to upload a recording of the choir or the singer during registration)