Eliane Locher

After obtaining her school-leaving certificate at the Kollegium in Brig, she studied music at the Bern University of the Arts with Heidi Péter-Indermühle. She completed her studies with a master's degree in pedagogy and orchestra. After internships with the symphony orchestras of Bern and Biel, she completed her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, the Amsterdam School of Music, with Koos Verheul.

For 15 years, she was a flutist with the Swiss Philharmonic Orchestra. With this ensemble, she regularly performed at all the festivals in Switzerland, including the Lucerne Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Davos Festival, the Zürcher Festspiele and the Murten Classics. She has played under conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Rudolf Barshai and Mario Venzago.

In the field of chamber music, she is interested in interdisciplinary projects and different styles. With the Ensemble Vibration4, she has produced the trilogy VIBRATIONS VALAISANNES and the project DER LETSCHT GRAATZUG, two multimedia projects in which the ensemble revisits and reinterprets archaic themes from Valais folk culture. In the project MATTERHORN - EIN IMMIGRANT AUS AFRIKA, she and Vibration4 transposed the theme of migration into music.

Eliane Locher is co-founder of the "Blattner Lager", a chamber music course for children and teenagers in Valais. She is artistic director of the GOMMER MUSIKFERIEN and the GOMMER SOMMERKONZERTE. For several years, she has been giving chamber music lessons during the Arosa Music Weeks.