Marie-Louise Dähler
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Marie-Louise Dähler is a Swiss harpsichordist. As such, she is a basso continuo player, chamber music partner and soloist with a focus on improvisation.[1]
Dähler grew up in Bern[1] in a family of musicians. She began playing the harpsichord at the age of five.[2] She studied pedagogy at the LehrerInnenseminar Muristalden in Bern, and harpsichord with her father, Jörg Ewald Dähler, at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, graduating with a diploma as a harpsichord pedagogue.[1] She studied further at the Musikakademie St. Gallen,[1] and with Johann Sonnleitner[2] at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, graduating with a concert diploma.[1] She passed her diplomas with distinction.[2] Together with Wolfgang Schulz, solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic, she recorded Bach's flute sonatas.[2]
Since 1999, she has collaborated with the Swiss violinist Paul Giger. She performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. She has also worked as a music teacher, in St. Gallen from 2004.[1]
