Between Christmas and New Year’s, Beatrice Berrut, Benjamin Herzl, and Matthias Bartolomey invite you to ring out the year with music at the Temple de Champéry!
From the melancholy of Rachmaninoff’s *Trio élégiaque* to the passion of Mendelssohn’s First Trio, two Romantic masterpieces echo one another… followed by a festive surprise to raise a toast to the New Year.
Practical information:
> The concert will be followed by a convivial cocktail reception
> With support from Région Dents du Midi and Latitude Champéry
> Beatrice Berrut, piano
> Benjamin Herzl, violin
> Matthias Bartolomey, cello
> More info at rencontres-musicales.ch
Concert program:
> Sergei Rachmaninoff – Elegiac Trio
> Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
> … and a festive musical surprise to end the year on a musical note!
The Trio
> The trio formed by Beatrice Berrut, Benjamin Herzl, and Matthias Bartolomey was born first and foremost out of a shared rapport on stage. In July 2025, they will perform at the Attergauer Kultursommer in Austria for a program entirely dedicated to Brahms, joined by violist Benedict Mitterbauer for the Piano Quartet, Op. 25. They will reprise this program in November 2025 at the Musikverein in Graz, then in February 2026 in Vienna and in Anif, near Salzburg, during a “Pure Brahms” evening that the local press hailed as “pure music and pure mastery.” Today, at the foot of the Dents du Midi, the trio will take you on a musical journey.
Two Austrian musicians trained in Vienna and Salzburg and a Swiss pianist who has been a loyal user of the Viennese Bösendorfer piano since 2013: this trio with a Viennese flair is setting up shop in Champéry for this end-of-year concert, this time performing works by Rachmaninoff and Mendelssohn.
Beatrice Berrut
> Swiss pianist and composer Beatrice Berrut knows, according to Le Monde, “how to transform the solid gold of the orchestra into the liquid gold of the piano”: her transcriptions of Mahler’s symphonies have taken her from the Vienna Konzerthaus to London’s Wigmore Hall. A Bösendorfer Artist since 2013, she composes, arranges, and loves unexpected encounters—from figure skating with Stéphane Lambiel to contemporary dance. As artistic director of the Rencontres Musicales de Champéry and founder of the Les Ondes festival, she embraces Mahler’s motto: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Benjamin Herzl
> Born in Salzburg in 1994, Benjamin Herzl—a third-generation member of a family of musicians—is acclaimed for his virtuoso mastery combined with profound musicality. A prize winner at the International Brahms Competition and a student of Julian Rachlin, among others, he has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Musikverein, and the Vienna Konzerthaus alongside partners such as Fazil Say, Imogen Cooper, and Beatrice Rana. He plays an exceptional violin: the 1732 Guarnerius “ex Guilet,” which was previously owned by David Oistrakh and Joshua Bell.
Matthias Bartolomey
> Principal cellist of Concentus Musicus Wien, the ensemble founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Viennese Matthias Bartolomey learned to play his instrument from his father, Franz Bartolomey, before studying with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he now teaches. But this refined chamber musician also enjoys venturing off the beaten path: with the BartolomeyBittmann duo, he creates music that blends jazz improvisation, grooves, and rock energy, to acclaim from the Berlin Philharmonie to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He plays a cello by David Tecchler, built in Rome in 1727.
Opening hours
Doors open at 4:30 p.m.
Accessibility
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Prices
Child (up to age 16): CHF 15.00
Information:
> Online ticket sales close at 3:00 p.m. on the day of the event.
> Tickets are sold on-site subject to availability.
> Only TWINT and cash payments are accepted on-site.