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Across the world, buildings turned blue in honor of the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. This landmark event was also celebrated in an imaginative way on a beautiful fall evening in Washington when Swiss born pianist Béatrice Berrut charmed an eclectic gathering in Washington at the Swiss Ambassador’s residence. Switzerland’s Ambassador Martin Dahinden and his wife Anita Dahinden extended a warm welcome to a distinguished audience.
This special concert was presented in coordination by the Embassy Series – founded by Jerome and Lisette Barry. The event drew many other luminaries in the greater Washington metropolitan area. Among the audience were former Tennessee Congressman John Tanner and his wife Betty Ann Tanner, Anne Howard-Tristani and her husband Dennis Tristani and professionals from different walks of life.
Ambassador Donald Bliss, President, United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, presented a few introductory remarks. He served U.S. Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization, an UN-affiliated international organization, and U.S. Permanent Representative on the ICAO Council.
According to her official website, Beatrice was born in the Swiss canton of Valais in 1985, and and after studying at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and at the Heinrich Neuhaus Foundation in Zurich she graduated from the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, where she studied with Galina Iwanzowa. She was awarded an Artist Diploma in John O’Conor’s class at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.
She has played numerous concerts throughout Europe and America at prestigious venues (the Berlin Philharmony, the Preston Bradley Hall of Chicago, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Teatro Coliseo of Buenos Aires, the Cleveland Museum of Arts...) in recital as well as a soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra della Svizerra Italiana, the North Czech Philharmonic, the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Kammerphilharmonie, the United Nations Orchestra…
Beatrice also appears regularly on television (ARTE, France 3, RTS, Sat3, ZDF, Tv Berlin, Canal9) and on Swiss, German, US, French, Belgian and Canadian radios (BBC3, WFMT Chicago, CWKR, France Musique, Espace 2, RTBF…).
She played music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Heinz Holligerand Ferenc (Frantz) Liszt with remarkable elegance that endeared her to the audience.
Photo by Simon Morris.
The views presented in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of any other organization.
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Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of United Nations through Musical Diplomacy
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November 2, 2015
Across the world, buildings turned blue in honor of the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. This landmark event was also celebrated in an imaginative way on a beautiful fall evening in Washington when Swiss born pianist Béatrice Berrut charmed an eclectic gathering in Washington at the Swiss Ambassador’s residence. Switzerland’s Ambassador Martin Dahinden and his wife Anita Dahinden extended a warm welcome to a distinguished audience.
This special concert was presented in coordination by the Embassy Series – founded by Jerome and Lisette Barry. The event drew many other luminaries in the greater Washington metropolitan area. Among the audience were former Tennessee Congressman John Tanner and his wife Betty Ann Tanner, Anne Howard-Tristani and her husband Dennis Tristani and professionals from different walks of life.
Ambassador Donald Bliss, President, United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, presented a few introductory remarks. He served U.S. Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization, an UN-affiliated international organization, and U.S. Permanent Representative on the ICAO Council.
According to her official website, Beatrice was born in the Swiss canton of Valais in 1985, and and after studying at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and at the Heinrich Neuhaus Foundation in Zurich she graduated from the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, where she studied with Galina Iwanzowa. She was awarded an Artist Diploma in John O’Conor’s class at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.
She has played numerous concerts throughout Europe and America at prestigious venues (the Berlin Philharmony, the Preston Bradley Hall of Chicago, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Teatro Coliseo of Buenos Aires, the Cleveland Museum of Arts...) in recital as well as a soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra della Svizerra Italiana, the North Czech Philharmonic, the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Kammerphilharmonie, the United Nations Orchestra…
Beatrice also appears regularly on television (ARTE, France 3, RTS, Sat3, ZDF, Tv Berlin, Canal9) and on Swiss, German, US, French, Belgian and Canadian radios (BBC3, WFMT Chicago, CWKR, France Musique, Espace 2, RTBF…).
She played music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Heinz Holligerand Ferenc (Frantz) Liszt with remarkable elegance that endeared her to the audience.
Photo by Simon Morris.
The views presented in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of any other organization.
